William James in focus : willing to believe /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | American philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
- 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."