Religion And Radical Empiricism

Author : Nancy Frankenberry
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0887064094

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Rarely in modern times has religion been associated with empiricism except to its own peril. This book represents a comprehensive and systematic effort to retrieve and develop the tradition of American religious empiricism for religious inquiry. Religion and Radical Empiricism offers a challenging account of how and why reflection on religious truth-claims must seek justification of those claims finally in terms of empirical criteria. Ranging through many of the major questions in philosophy of religion, the author weaves together a study of the varieties of empiricism in all its historical forms from Hume to Quine. She finds in James and Dewey; in Wieman, Meland, and Loomer of the Chicago School; in Whitehead; and in Abhidharma Buddhism constructive elements of a radically empirical approach to the controversial topic of religious experience. This work provides a strong counter-argument to critics of “revisionary theism,” to caricatures of philosophy as “conversation,” and to any collapse of the category of experience into its linguistic forms.

Author : Nancy Frankenberry
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0887064086

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Religion and Radical Empiricism by Nancy Frankenberry Pdf

Rarely in modern times has religion been associated with empiricism except to its own peril. This book represents a comprehensive and systematic effort to retrieve and develop the tradition of American religious empiricism for religious inquiry. Religion and Radical Empiricism offers a challenging account of how and why reflection on religious truth-claims must seek justification of those claims finally in terms of empirical criteria. Ranging through many of the major questions in philosophy of religion, the author weaves together a study of the varieties of empiricism in all its historical forms from Hume to Quine. She finds in James and Dewey; in Wieman, Meland, and Loomer of the Chicago School; in Whitehead; and in Abhidharma Buddhism constructive elements of a radically empirical approach to the controversial topic of religious experience. This work provides a strong counter-argument to critics of "revisionary theism," to caricatures of philosophy as "conversation," and to any collapse of the category of experience into its linguistic forms.

Author : Hunter Brown
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802047343

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William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion by Hunter Brown Pdf

Hunter Brown shows that Henry James's views of religious experience do not in fact lapse into subjectivismor fideism that critics have accused him of but occasions hardships and self-sacrifice which James describes.

Author : Nancy Frankenberry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052101705X

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Radical Interpretation in Religion by Nancy Frankenberry Pdf

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Author : Creighton Peden,Larry E. Axel
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0865543607

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God, Values, and Empiricism by Creighton Peden,Larry E. Axel Pdf

Author : William Dean
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0887062806

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American Religious Empiricism by William Dean Pdf

In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbers--up to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then transferred to rural wet nurses and foster parents. Their chances of survival were slim, but with alterations in state policy, economic and medical development, and changing attitudes toward children and the family, their chances had significantly improved by the end of the century. “br /> Rachel Fuchs has drawn on newly discovered archival sources and previously untapped documents of the Paris foundling home in order to depict the actual conditions of abandoned children and to reveal the bureaucratic and political response. This study traces the evolution of French social policy from early attempts to limit welfare to later efforts to increase social programs and influence family life. Abandoned Children illuminates in detail the family life of nineteenth-century French poor. It shows how French social policy with respect to abandoned children sought to create an economically useful and politically neutral underclass out of a segment of the population that might otherwise have been an economic drain and a potential political threat.

Author : William James
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486149295

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Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James Pdf

The influential philosopher's preoccupation with ultimate reality and his turn toward a metaphysical system are the focus of Essays in Radical Empiricism. Originally published in journals between 1884 and 1906, these 12 essays were selected by William James to illustrate the doctrine he called "radical empiricism" — a concept that made him the center of a new philosophic approach. Proclaiming experience to be the ultimate reality, James explores the applications of experience to the problem of relations, the role of feeling in experience, and the nature of truth. He argues in favor of a pluralistic universe, denying that experience can be defined in terms of an absolute force determining the relationships between things and events. Relationships, regardless of whether they hold things together or apart, are as real as the things themselves — their functions are real, and there are no hidden factors responsible for life's harmonies and dissonances. Seminal essays in this collection include "Does Consciousness Exist?: "The Essence of Humanism," and "Absolutism and Empiricism." In addition, this edition features a new translation of "On the Notion of Consciousness" — the first English rendering of the essay, which was written in French. Indispensable to an understanding of the great philosopher's other works, this systematic and compact treatment functions equally well in and out of the classroom.

Author : William James
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1548440299

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Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James Pdf

William JAMES (1842-1910). American psychologist and philosopher whose writings on religion and mystical experience have influenced the human potential movement. While James was not especially interested in such notions as "God" or "Absolute Truth", he stressed personal growth and self-improvement, and valued the mystical or transcendental experiences as a means to that end. For him, cosmic consciousness was a continuum "into which our several minds plunge as into a mother-sea reservoir." James helped to found the American "Society for Psychical Research" in 1884 and was a pioneer of psychedelic research. He came to believe that hauntings, phantasms, and trance experiences were essentially natural phenomena that would eventually be explained scientifically. James was the author of several books, including "Principles of Psychology" (1890), "The Varieties of Religious Experience" (1902), and "The Meaning of Truth" (1909).

Author : Bennett Ramsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195360769

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Submitting to Freedom by Bennett Ramsey Pdf

Ramsey presents a new analysis and interpretation of the religious views of the nineteenth-century American philosopher William James. He argues that James was primarily motivated by religious concerns in his writings and that this fact has been obscured by the artificial scholarly division of his "philosophy," "psychology," and "religion"--a symptom of the professionalization which James himself strenuously resisted in his own time. Ramsey believes that James is best understood in his historical context, as a representative of a society and culture struggling to come to terms with modernity. Much of James's religious work is a direct reflection of what has been called "the spiritual crisis of the Gilded Age," a crisis which Ramsey examines in illuminating detail. James's religious vision, in Ramsey's view, hinges on the recognition and acceptance of "contingency"--the knowledge that we are at the mercy of change and chance. With so little else to rely on, James believed, people must learn to submit freely and responsibly into one another's care. Ramsey reintroduces James's thought into the contemporary discussion, and puts forward the kind of religious alternative that James was pointing to in his work: not worship, but acquiescence in a world of mutual relations; not obedience to authority, but conversion to the freedom of responsibility.

Author : David C. Lamberth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Experience (Religion)
ISBN : 0511171978

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William James and the Metaphysics of Experience by David C. Lamberth Pdf

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 David Lamberth argues that James's major contribution was to develop a systematic metaphysics of experience integrally related to his developing pluralistic and social religious ideas. Lamberth systematically interprets James's radically empiricist world-view and argues for an early dating (1895) for his commitment to the metaphysics of radical empiricism. He offers a close reading of Varieties of Religious Experience; and concludes by connecting James's ideas about experience, pluralism and truth to current debates in philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and theology, suggesting James's functional, experiential metaphysics as a conceptual aid in bridging the social and interpretive with the immediate and concrete while avoiding naive realism.

Author : William James
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511908947

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Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James Pdf

Prof. William James was by no means a systematic thinker, and his interests were too various to be satisfied with one interpretation of life. As soon as he had defined one conception he grew beyond himself and longed for a broader view. It is highly characteristic of Professor James that after he had set forth his philosophy of pragmatism, he said in his preface to The Meaning of Truth (1909): "I am interested in another doctrine in philosophy to which I give the name of radical empiricism, and it seems to me that the establishment of the pragmatist theory of truth is a step of first-rate importance in making radical empiricism prevail." The philosophy of "radical empiricism" is outlined in twelve essays collected by Ralph Barton Perry, Professor James's literary executor, in the posthumous publication now before us. The several subjects discussed are as follows: "Does 'Consciousness' Exist?", "A World of Pure Experience," "The Thing and Its Relations," "How Two Minds Can Know One Thing," "The Place of Affectional Facts in a World of Pure Experience," "The Experience of Activity," "The Essence of Humanism," "La Notion de Conscience!' "Is Radical Empiricism Solipsistic?", "Mr. Pitkin's Refutation of 'Radical Empiricism,'" "Humanism and Truth Once More," and "Absolutism and Empiricism." While these articles are written in the same style and with the same breadth of mind as the books on pragmatism, Professor James considers both as independent doctrines. He says: "Let me say that there is no logical connection between pragmatism, as I understand it, and a doctrine which I have recently set forth as 'radical empiricism.' The latter stands on its own feet. One may entirely reject it and still be a pragmatist." In the editor's preface, Mr. Ralph Barton Perry quotes Professor James as follows: "Let empiricism once become associated with religion, as hitherto through some strange misunderstanding it has been associated with irreligion, and I believe that a new era of religion as well as of philosophy will be ready to begin." -The Monist, Volume 23 [1913]

Author : William James,John Dewey
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0252029674

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James and Dewey on Belief and Experience by William James,John Dewey Pdf

Donald Capps and John Capps's James and Dewey on Belief and Experience juxtaposes the key writings of two philosophical superstars. As fathers of Pragmatism, America's unique contribution to world philosophy, their work has been enormously influential, and remains essential to any understanding of American intellectual history. In these essays, you'll find William James deeply embroiled in debates between religion and science. Combining philosophical charity with logical clarity, he defended the validity of religious experience against crass forms of scientism. Dewey identified the myriad ways in which supernatural concerns distract religious adherents from pressing social concerns, and sought to reconcile the tensions inherent in science's dual embrace of common sense and the aesthetic. James and Dewey on Belief and Experience is divided into two sections: the former showcases James, the latter is devoted to Dewey. Two transitional passages in which each reflects on the work of the other bridge these two main segments. Together, the sections offer a unique perspective on the philosophers' complex relationship of influence and interdependence. An editors' introduction provides biog

Author : Henry Samuel Levinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469610160

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The Religious Investigations of William James by Henry Samuel Levinson Pdf

In this first detailed examination of Varieties of Religious Experience, Levinson locates James securely in the academic study of religion, demonstrates James's debts to Darwin, and reconstructs the case for the supernatural that James thought so critical to his work. The author discusses the contribution that these religious interests made to James's later work and to the shaping of his theories of pragmatism and radical empiricism. Originally published 1981. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530821037

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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James Pdf

William James was a prominent American philosopher and psychologist in the 19th century. James contributed heavily to ideas such pragmatism, functional psychology, and radical empiricism.The Varieties of Religious Experience consists of 20 lectures James gave at the University of Edinburgh. The book is a classic in religious philosophy.

Author : Sergio Francese,Felicitas Kraemer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110328363

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Fringes of Religious Experience by Sergio Francese,Felicitas Kraemer Pdf

William James's Varieties of Religious Experience is one of the most renowned works of the famous psychologist and founder of pragmatism, and a fully accomplished anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of religion. In this book a selection of 10 papers from international scholars, previously presented at the International Centennary Conference in Celebration of The Gifford Lectures at University of Edinburgh in 2002, explore the theoretical and historical 'fringes' of James's work in the attempt to provide new insights into some major issues involved therein. The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with important philosophical and psychological issues related to James's account of religious experience. A second shorter section lays a focus a on the historical sources and reception of James's ideas in American and European culture.