Dr. Erik Banks Publishes Book on “Realistic Empiricism”

Dr. Erik Banks’s second book, The Realistic Empiricism of Mach, James, and Russell: Neutral Monism Reconceived, has recently been published by Cambridge University Press. In this book he traces how these three philosophers--Ernst Mach, William James, and Bertrand Russell--founded in the early 20th century a philosophical and scientific movement known as “neutral monism,” and explores the ways in which their ideas can be applied to contemporary problems in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science. Dr. Banks, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, teaches courses in