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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...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2013.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- James's life: will to believe as affirmation
- "Will to believe": policing versus free-roaming
- Principles of psychology: consciousness as a constitutive stream
- 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."