The divided self of William James

This book offers a powerful interpretation of the philosophy of William James. It focuses on the multiple directions in which James's philosophy moves and the inevitable contradictions that arise as a result. The first part of the book explores a range of James's doctrines in which he refu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Gale, Richard M., 1932- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 1999.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The ethics of Prometheanism
  • The willfulness of belief
  • The freedom of belief
  • The will to believe
  • The ethics of truth
  • The semantics of "truth"
  • Ontological relativism: William James meets Poo-bah
  • The self
  • The I-thou quest for intimacy and religious mysticism
  • The Humpty-Dumpty intuition and Panpsychism
  • Attempts at a one-world interpretation of James.