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Record Nr.

UNISA996248171003316

Autore

O'Connell Robert J

Titolo

William James on the courage to believe / Robert J. O'Connell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fordham University Press, 2019

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

0-8232-8496-4

0-8232-8281-3

0-585-17134-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 223 p. )

Collana

American philosophy series ; ; number 8

Disciplina

121/.6

Soggetti

Belief and doubt

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

William James' celebrated lecture on 'The Will to Believe' has kindled spirited controversy since the day it was delivered. In this lively reappraisal of that controversy, the author contributes some fresh contentions: that James' argument should be viewed against his indebtedness to Blaise Pascal and Charles Bernard Renouvier; that it works primarily to validate our 'over-beliefs'; and most surprising perhaps, that James envisages our 'passional nature' as intervening, not after, but before and throughout, our intellectual weighing of the evidence for belief.