ABSTRACT
There is inevitably some artificiality in separating James’s epistemology from his philosophical psychology. The inclusion of conjunctive relations among the items given in experience is an integral part of both aspects of his philosophy. The part such a notion plays in James’s account of the self in the Principles alone shows this, but it is also evident in his discussion of particular topics, such as Berkeley’s theory of vision.1 Many of the distinctions James thought vitally important, such as that between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge about, have prominence in both accounts. Yet the distinctive features of radical empiricism, and in particular the appeal to ‘pure experience’, are temporally later than, and go beyond, the doctrines of the Principles. James, too, draws a sharp distinction in the latter work between psychological and metaphysical issues.
