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    Science and Consciousness Just Wed: Should This Union Be Annulled?
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 23 (9-10): 250-253. 2016.
    If science relates only to the objectifiable, how can it relate to consciousness? I
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    I should like to convey to you some doubts which have occurred to me on the subject of the notion of consciousness that prevails in all our treatises on psychology.
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    'Is consciousness already there waiting to be uncovered and is it a veridical revelation of reality?' William James asked in one of his last published essays, 'A Suggestion About Mysticism'. The answer, he said, would not be known 'by this generation or the next'. By separating what James wanted to believe about commonsense reality, from what his 'dispassionate' insights and researches led him to believe, I show how James himself, in collaboration with a few friends, laid the groundwork for adop…Read more
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    A variety of religious experience. William James and the non-reality of free will
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 6 (8-9): 8-9. 1999.
    Free will does not exist, nor can it be explained, outside the confines of subjective experience. William James, whose talent for depicting subjective experience was equal to his brother Henry's, desperately wanted to believe in free will. But his introspections did not support it
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    Discusses how William James’s work suggests a world without will, self, or time and how research supports this perspective. William James is often considered a scientist compromised by his advocacy of mysticism and parapsychology. Jonathan Bricklin argues James can also be viewed as a mystic compromised by his commitment to common sense. James wanted to believe in will, self, and time, but his deepest insights suggested otherwise. “Is consciousness already there waiting to be uncovered and is it…Read more
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    What Dies? Eternalism and the Afterlife in William James
    Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research 7 (11): 1119-1140. 2016.
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    Science and Consciousness Just Wed-- Should this Union Be Annulled?
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 23 (9-10): 250-253. 2016.
    Sciousness vs. Consciousness: William James's key distinction for establishing a science of consciousness.