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William James and the metaphysics of experience /
William James is frequently considered one of America's most important philosophers, as well as a foundational thinker for the study of religion. Despite his reputation as the founder of pragmatism, he is rarely considered a serious philosopher or religious thinker. In this new interpretation D...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought ;
5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | William James is frequently considered one of America's most important philosophers, as well as a foundational thinker for the study of religion. Despite his reputation as the founder of pragmatism, he is rarely considered a serious philosopher or religious thinker. In this new interpretation David Lamberth argues that James's major contribution was to develop a systematic metaphysics of experience integrally related to his developing pluralistic and social religious ideas. Lamberth systematically interprets James's radically empiricist world-view and argues for an early dating (1895) for his commitment to the metaphysics of radical empiricism. He offers a close reading of Varieties of Religious Experience; and concludes by connecting James's ideas about experience, pluralism and truth to current debates in philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and theology, suggesting James's functional, experiential metaphysics as a conceptual aid in bridging the social and interpretive with the immediate and concrete while avoiding naive realism. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-247) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511038690 9780511038693 9780521581639 052158163X 0511006616 9780511006616 9780511488436 0511488432 9780521108973 0521108977 1280418656 9781280418655 0511171978 9780511171970 0511149670 9780511149672 0511309791 9780511309793 0511053932 9780511053931 1107113873 9781107113879 |