<p>Hunter Brown shows that Henry James's views of religious experience do not in fact lapse into subjectivismor fideism that critics have accused him of but occasions hardships and self-sacrifice which James describes.</p>
William James on Religion
β Scribed by Henrik Rydenfelt, Sami PihlstrΓΆm (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 208
- Series
- Philosophers in Depth
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Religion and Pragmatism from βThe Will to Believeβ to Pragmatism....Pages 15-29
Anti-Dogmatism as a Defense of Religious Belief....Pages 30-55
The Varieties and the Cognitive Value of Religious Experiences....Pages 56-77
Pragmatic Realism and Pluralism in Philosophy of Religion....Pages 78-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
βThe Ethics of Beliefβ Reconsidered....Pages 111-127
Sensitive Truths and Sceptical Doubt....Pages 128-144
Reconceptualizing Evidentialism and the Evidentialist Critique of Religion....Pages 145-164
Possibility and Permission? Intellectual Character, Inquiry, and the Ethics of Belief....Pages 165-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-203
β¦ Subjects
Philosophy of Religion; History of Philosophy; Modern Philosophy; Religious Studies, general
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