ABSTRACT
The radicalization of James’s empiricism is a progressive and complex process involving his psychology, epistemology and ontology. In this chapter, radical empiricism is seen as an element in nuce that marks the continuity of Jamesian philosophy and which, in turn, develops from the Jamesian conception of psychological and experiential continuity. Radicalizing empiricism means for James to offer a new philosophical doctrine in which it is possible to find resonance with both the scientific-naturalistic mentality and the need mainly conveyed by other traditions of thought for a melioristic metaphysical vision open to the future.
