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| Named Person: | William James; William James; William James |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David C Lamberth |
| ISBN: | 052158163X 9780521581639 9780521108973 0521108977 |
| OCLC Number: | 39659735 |
| Description: | xiii, 256 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | James's radically empiricist Weltanschauung -- Radical empiricism: a philosophy of pure experience -- The methodological thesis of radical empiricism -- The factual thesis of radical empiricism -- The metaphysical thesis of pure experience -- The functional account of direct acquaintance -- The functional account of knowledge about -- The pragmatic conception of truth -- The thesis of pluralistic panpsychism -- From psychology to religion: pure experience and radical empiricism in the 1890s -- Psychology as a natural science -- James's shifting interest: from psychology into metaphysics -- "The knowing of things together": the formal break with dualism -- Pure experience, the field theory, and the 1895-6 seminar "The Feelings" -- Pure experience and Richard Avenarius -- The field theory -- The Varieties of Religious Experience: indications of a philosophy adapted to normal religious needs -- Spiritual visions and bodily limitations: the composition of Varieties -- Remnants of the plan for the philosophical course -- Varieties: the basic argument -- Method and procedure -- Hypothetical beginnings -- Descriptions of the life of religion -- James's model of religion in act -- Varieties and radical empiricism -- Squaring logic and life: making philosophy intimate in A Pluralistic Universe -- From Varieties to A Pluralistic Universe -- Adequate philosophy: intimacy, foreignness, and rationality -- The arguments against the absolute -- The problem of the compounding of consciousness -- Pluralistic panpsychism. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought, 5. |
| Responsibility: | David C. Lamberth. |
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"Lamberth's book is an extraordinarily precise analysis of James's transition from an empirical psychologist to a metaphysician, and he offers detailed interpretations of James's religious views within the context of James's attempt to overcome the perennial bugbear of philosophy: mind-body dualism." Neal Leavitt, The Boston Book Review "This volume is a welcome addition to the body of Jamesian scholarship. In this clearly written, well-researched, and convincing book, Lamberth has unveiled a philosopher worthy of careful attention." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society "This study is beautifully Jamesian in character." Review of Metaphysics "...Lamberth's interpretation of "pure experience" sharpens the sense of James's defense of religion...It is an excellent path through James's later thought." The Boston Book Review "This is a very bold and exciting book..." Philosophy and Phenomenological Read more...
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- James, William, -- 1842-1910.
- Experience (Religion)
- Metaphysics.
- Experience.
- Religion -- Philosophy.
- Metafysica.
- Ervaring.
- James, William.
- Experiência religiosa.
- Psicologia da religião.
- James, William -- (1842-1910) -- Contribution au concept d'expérience religieuse.
- Expérience religieuse.
