James's radically empiricist Weltanschauung -- Radical empiricism: a philosophy of pure experience -- The methodological thesis of radical empiricism -- The factual thesis of radical empiricism -- The metaphysical thesis of pure experience -- The functional account of direct acquaintance -- The functional account of knowledge about -- The pragmatic conception of truth -- The thesis of pluralistic panpsychism -- From psychology to religion: pure experience and radical empiricism in the 1890s -- Psychology as a natural science -- James's shifting interest: from psychology into metaphysics -- "The knowing of things together": the formal break with dualism -- Pure experience, the field theory, and the 1895-6 seminar "The Feelings" -- Pure experience and Richard Avenarius -- The field theory -- The Varieties of Religious Experience: indications of a philosophy adapted to normal religious needs -- Spiritual visions and bodily limitations: the composition of Varieties -- Remnants of the plan for the philosophical course -- Varieties: the basic argument -- Method and procedure -- Hypothetical beginnings -- Descriptions of the life of religion -- James's model of religion in act -- Varieties and radical empiricism -- Squaring logic and life: making philosophy intimate in A Pluralistic Universe -- From Varieties to A Pluralistic Universe -- Adequate philosophy: intimacy, foreignness, and rationality -- The arguments against the absolute -- The problem of the compounding of consciousness -- Pluralistic panpsychism.