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William James in focus : willing to believe /
William James (1842-1910) is a canonical figure of American pragmatism. Trained as a medical doctor, James was more engaged by psychology and philosophy and wrote a foundational text, Pragmatism, for this characteristically American way of thinking. Distilling the main currents of James's thoug...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | American philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- James's life : will to believe as affirmation
- "The will to believe" : policing versus free-roaming
- The principles of psychology : consciousness as a constitutive stream
- The varieties of religious experience : mysticism as a vague "exemplar"
- Pragmatism : corridor as "latent" and "the will to believe"
- Metaphysics : radical empiricism and pure experience
- "Pure" versus "impure" experience : examples of pure experience
- Challenges to "the will to believe"
- Conclusion : pragmatism, death, and "the will to believe."