Consciência e experiência no empirismo radical de William James

• Autor(a) principal: Razzo, Francisco de Assis
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11643
• topic: Pragmatismo; William James; Empirismo radical; Consciência; Pragmatism; Radical empiricism; Consciousness; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA

The focus of this study is to analyse the relation between consciousness and experience in the extent of the North-American Philosopher William James' radical empiricism. The approach of this research is to present the notion of consciousness as a function of knowledge in the experience as from the analysis of the essays Does Consciousness Exist? and A World of Pure Experience, posthumously published in the collect edition Essays in Radical Empiricism, in 1912. Such intent aims to understand what are the fundamental pressupositions of radical empiricism and its epistemological implications, as from the definition of philosophical view of world, as a result of the application of pragmaticism, second to James, as a method to solve metaphysical disputes and as a theory of truth. That way, the result of this work is to demonstrate what in what meaning the conceptions of consciousness in the extent of the radical empiricism imposes itself as a vigorous possibility of overcoming the reductionists conceptions about subjectivity and reality. In Does consciousness exist? it is postulated, in the search for overcoming the substancialists, transcedentalists and associationits conceptions of subjectivity, the notion that consciousness is nothing but the name of a nonentity, as characterized in the context of the flux of the participative reality of pure experience. However, on what thematic delimitation is concerned, it is fundamental to consider the jamesian proposal of the subjectivity in light of a philosophically coherent interpretation of his work, that is, taking the culmination of that conception of consciousness regarding pure experience into consideration, as it traces way which is not systematic but extremely coherent on what his philosophical criteria and interpretation of both essays without taking the very course traced by William James in the building of his work, into consideration