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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lamberth, David C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Colección:Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought ; 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.