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Journal article · 1904

Does ‘Consciousness’ Exist?

William James

1 section · about 33 minutes · source text with editorial apparatus kept separate

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Originally published in Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods (1904), vol. 1, no. 18, pp. 477-491.

Text from Essays in Radical Empiricism (1912), pp. 1-38.

Web source: Project Gutenberg HTML edition, eBook 32547, accessed 2026-08-16.

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