William J Gavin

William James in Focus

Willing to Believe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780253007865
• ISBN-10: 0253007860
• Artikelnr.: 36126250

Autorenporträt

William J. Gavin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He is author of William James and the Reinstatement of the Vague and Cuttin' the Body Loose: Historical, Biological, and Personal Approaches in Death and Dying. He is former president of the William James Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. James's Life: Will to Believe as Affirmation
2. "The Will to Believe": Policing versus Free-Roaming
3. The Principles of Psychology: Consciousness as a Constitutive Stream
4. The Varieties of Religious Experience: Mysticism as a Vague "Exemplar"
5. Pragmatism: Corridor as "Latent" and "The Will to Believe"
6. Metaphysics: Radical Empiricism and Pure Experience
7. "Pure" versus "Impure" Experience: Examples of Pure Experience
8. Challenges to "The Will to Believe"
Conclusion: Pragmatism, Death, and "The Will to Believe"
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index