William James and the Metaphysics of Experience.

By: Lamberth, David CMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical ThoughtPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780511149672Subject(s): James, William,--1842-1910Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: William James and the Metaphysics of ExperienceDDC classification: 191 LOC classification: B945.J24 L27 1999Online resources: Click to View
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on the text -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 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 -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- CHAPTER 2 From psychology to religion: pure experience and radical empiricism in the 1890s -- PHYCHOLOGY 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 -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- CHAPTER 3 "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 -- CHAPTER 4 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 -- SUPERHUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE FINITE GOD -- CHAPTER 5 Estimations and anticipations -- JAMES AND TRUTH.
Realism or antirealism? -- Absolute truth -- ANTICIPATIONS -- Philosophy -- Philosophy of religion -- Theology -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A new interpretation of the philosopher, psychologist and religious thinker William James.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on the text -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 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 -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- CHAPTER 2 From psychology to religion: pure experience and radical empiricism in the 1890s -- PHYCHOLOGY 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 -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- CHAPTER 3 "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 -- CHAPTER 4 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 -- SUPERHUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE FINITE GOD -- CHAPTER 5 Estimations and anticipations -- JAMES AND TRUTH.

Realism or antirealism? -- Absolute truth -- ANTICIPATIONS -- Philosophy -- Philosophy of religion -- Theology -- Select bibliography -- Index.

A new interpretation of the philosopher, psychologist and religious thinker William James.

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