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James's will-to-believe doctrine : a heretical view /

In 1896 William James published an essay entitled The Will to Believe, in which he defended the legitimacy of religious faith against the attacks of such champions of scientific method as W.K. Clifford and Thomas Huxley. James's work quickly became one of the most important writings in the phil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wernham, James C. S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kingston, Ont. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • BEGINNINGS
  • 1 The Nation Affair
  • 2 Message from the Mountains
  • 3 From Mountaineering to Metaphysics
  • THE WILL TO BELIEVE
  • 4 Forced Options
  • 5 Momentous and Intellectually Undecidable Options
  • 6 The Religious Hypothesis
  • 7 Belief and Other Things
  • 8 Belief and Faith
  • JAMES AND SOME OTHERS
  • 9 Clifford
  • 10 Pascal
  • 11 Bain
  • 12 Renouvier and Pragmatism
  • 13 Two Critics
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
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