The Will To Believe

Author : Scott Aikin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781623560171

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Evidentialism and the Will to Believe by Scott Aikin Pdf

Work on the norms of belief in epistemology regularly starts with two touchstone essays: W.K. Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief" and William James's "The Will to Believe." Discussing the central themes from these seminal essays, Evidentialism and the Will to Believe explores the history of the ideas governing evidentialism. As well as Clifford's argument from the examples of the shipowner, the consequences of credulity and his defence against skepticism, this book tackles James's conditions for a genuine option and the structure of the will to believe case as a counter-example to Clifford's evidentialism. Exploring the question of whether James's case successfully counters Clifford's evidentialist rule for belief, this study captures the debate between those who hold that one should proportion belief to evidence and those who hold that the evidentialist norm is too restrictive. More than a sustained explication of the essays, it also surveys recent epistemological arguments to evidentialism. But it is by bringing Clifford and James into fruitful conversation for the first time that this study presents a clearer history of the issues and provides an important reconstruction of the notion of evidence in contemporary epistemology.

Author : William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Belief and doubt
ISBN : HARVARD:32044017068255

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The Will to Believe by William James Pdf

Author : Robert J. O'Connell
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823282814

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William James on the Courage to Believe by Robert J. O'Connell Pdf

William James’ celebrated lecture on “The Will to Believe” has kindled spirited controversy since the day it was delivered. In this lively reappraisal of that controversy, Father O’Connell contributes some fresh contentions: that James’ argument should be viewed against his indebtedness to Pascal and Renouvier; that it works primarily to validate our “over-beliefs” ; and most surprising perhaps, that James envisages our “passional nature” as intervening, not after, but before and throughout, our intellectual weighing of the evidence for belief.

Author : William James
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781101221617

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Pragmatism and Other Writings by William James Pdf

The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. 'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the full text is included here along with 'The Meaning of Truth', 'Psychology', 'The Will to Believe', and 'Talks to Teachers on Psychology'.

Author : William James
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732697816

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The Will to Believe by William James Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Will to Believe by William James

Author : R. C. Sproul
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781585581535

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Willing to Believe by R. C. Sproul Pdf

What is the role of the will in believing the good news of the gospel? Why is there so much controversy over free will throughout church history? R. C. Sproul finds that Christians have often been influenced by pagan views of the human will that deny the effects of Adam's fall. In Willing to Believe, Sproul traces the free-will controversy from its formal beginning in the fifth century, with the writings of Augustine and Pelagius, to the present. Readers will gain understanding into the nuances separating the views of Protestants and Catholics, Calvinists and Arminians, and Reformed and Dispensationalists. This book, like Sproul's Faith Alone, is a major work on an essential evangelical tenet.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022054851

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The Ethics of Belief. [By William K. Clifford. A Paper Read Before the Metaphysical Society.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191004292

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A Will to Believe by David Scott Kastan Pdf

On 19 December 1601, John Croke, then Speaker of the House of Commons, addressed his colleagues: "If a question should be asked, What is the first and chief thing in a Commonwealth to be regarded? I should say, religion. If, What is the second? I should say, religion. If, What the third? I should still say, religion." But if religion was recognized as the "chief thing in a Commonwealth," we have been less certain what it does in Shakespeare's plays. Written and performed in a culture in which religion was indeed inescapable, the plays have usually been seen either as evidence of Shakespeare's own disinterested secularism or, more recently, as coded signposts to his own sectarian commitments. Based upon the inaugural series of the Oxford-Wells Shakespeare Lectures in 2008, A Will to Believe offers a thoughtful, surprising, and often moving consideration of how religion actually functions in them: not as keys to Shakespeare's own faith but as remarkably sensitive registers of the various ways in which religion charged the world in which he lived. The book shows what we know and can't know about Shakespeare's own beliefs, and demonstrates, in a series of wonderfully alert and agile readings, how the often fraught and vertiginous religious environment of Post-Reformation England gets refracted by the lens of Shakespeare's imagination.

Author : William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010406098

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The Sentiment of Rationality by William James Pdf

Author : William J. Gavin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253007925

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William James in Focus by William J. Gavin Pdf

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 thought, William J. Gavin focuses on "latent" and "manifest" ideas in James to disclose the notion of "will to believe," which courses through his work. For students who may be approaching James for the first time and for specialists who may not know James as deeply as they wish, Gavin provides a clear path to understanding James's philosophy even as he embraces James's complications and hesitations.

Author : John Bishop
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199205547

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Believing by Faith by John Bishop Pdf

Does our available evidence show that some particular religion is correct? It seems unlikely, given the great diversity of religious - and non-religious - views of the world. But if no religious beliefs can be shown true on the evidence, can it be right to make a religious commitment? Should people make 'leaps of faith'? Or would we all be better off avoiding commitments that outrun our evidence? And, if leaps of faith can be acceptable, how do we tell the difference between goodand bad ones - between sound religion and dogmatic ideology or fundamentalist fanaticism? Believing by Faith offers answers to these questions, inspired by a famous attempt to justify faith made by William James in 1896. In doing so, it engages critically with much recent discussion in the philosophyof religion, and, especially, the epistemology of religious belief.

Author : William James
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1956-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780486202914

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The Will to Believe by William James Pdf

Intellect, will, belief, chance, and free will are among the topics touched upon in two works by the American psychologist

Author : William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Life
ISBN : UOM:39015026427263

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Is Life Worth Living? by William James Pdf

Author : William James
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Krister Dylan Knapp
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469631257

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William James by Krister Dylan Knapp Pdf

In this insightful new book on the remarkable William James, the American psychologist and philosopher, Krister Dylan Knapp provides the first deeply historical and acutely analytical account of James's psychical research. While showing that James always maintained a critical stance toward claims of paranormal phenomena like spiritualism, Knapp uses new sources to argue that psychical research held a strikingly central position in James's life. It was crucial to his familial and professional relationships, the fashioning of his unique intellectual disposition, and the shaping of his core doctrines, especially the will-to-believe, empiricism, fideism, and theories of the subliminal consciousness and immortality. Knapp explains how and why James found in psychical research a way to rethink the well-trodden approaches to classic Euro-American religious thought, typified by the oppositional categories of natural vs. supernatural and normal vs. paranormal. He demonstrates how James eschewed these choices and instead developed a tertiary synthesis of them, an approach Knapp terms tertium quid, the third way. Situating James's psychical research in relation to the rise of experimental psychology and Protestantism's changing place in fin de siecle America, Knapp asserts that the third way illustrated a much broader trend in transatlantic thought as it struggled to navigate the uncertainties and religious adventurism of the modern age.