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1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages) |
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Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought ; 5 |
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Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought ; 5.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-247) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
James, William, 1842-1910 -- Contributions in concept of religious experience
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| SUBJECT |
James, William, 1842-1910 fast |
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James, William 1842-1910 gnd |
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James, William, 1842-1910. nli |
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James, William , 1842-1910. (NL-LeOCL)068478313 nta |
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James, William, (1842-1910) -- Contribution au concept d'expérience religieuse. ram |
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Experience (Religion)
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Philosophy -- history
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Metaphysics
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metaphysics.
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11.02 philosophy of religion.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Experience (Religion)
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Religiöse Erfahrung
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Religionsphilosophie
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Metafysica.
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Ervaring.
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Experiência religiosa.
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Psicologia da religião.
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Experience (Religion)
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Expérience religieuse.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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