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(2017) European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 9 (1).
Psychologism and the self
Vincente Sanfelix Vidarte
Although it is not documentarily proven, it is not unlikely that the young Wittgenstein read at least part of William James’s psychological work. In this paper we have compared their respective points of view about psychologism and the conception of the self. The result is a complex pattern of similarities and differences. If James and the early Wittgenstein coincide in their opposition to psychologism and the Cartesian conception of the subject, they do so from very different philosophical positions: that of a naturalist focus in the case of the American thinker; that of a transcendental focus in the Austrian thinker.
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DOI: 10.4000/ejpap.1001
Full citation:
Sanfelix Vidarte, V. (2017). Psychologism and the self. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 9 (1), pp. n/a.
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