Essays in Radical Empiricism

"Essays in Radical Empiricism" by William James is an early 20th-century philosophical work that introduces radical empiricism, a theory prioritizing experience and the connections between different experiences, challenging traditional divisions like mind and matter with the goal of establishing a cohesive philosophical approach. Questioning the idea of consciousness as a separate thing, the book suggests that it's a role within experienced life, where knowing and the known are linked, not separate, all of which are pieces of a continuous experience; through "pure experience", reality and thought get a revised relationship, setting up the rest of the book.