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Author : Ettie Stettheimer
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Total Pages : 114 pages
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Download or read book The Will to Believe as a Basis for the Defense of Religious Faith written by Ettie Stettheimer and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William James
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Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book The Will to Believe written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward T. O'Neill
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Will to Believe as a Basis for the Defense of Religious Faith written by Edward T. O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott Aikin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1623560179
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Evidentialism and the Will to Believe written by Scott Aikin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work on the norms of belief in epistemology regularly starts with two touchstone essays: W.K. Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief" and William James's "The Will to Believe." Discussing the central themes from these seminal essays, Evidentialism and the Will to Believe explores the history of the ideas governing evidentialism. As well as Clifford's argument from the examples of the shipowner, the consequences of credulity and his defence against skepticism, this book tackles James's conditions for a genuine option and the structure of the will to believe case as a counter-example to Clifford's evidentialism. Exploring the question of whether James's case successfully counters Clifford's evidentialist rule for belief, this study captures the debate between those who hold that one should proportion belief to evidence and those who hold that the evidentialist norm is too restrictive. More than a sustained explication of the essays, it also surveys recent epistemological arguments to evidentialism. But it is by bringing Clifford and James into fruitful conversation for the first time that this study presents a clearer history of the issues and provides an important reconstruction of the notion of evidence in contemporary epistemology.
Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525954155
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Making Sense of God written by Timothy Keller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives? In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that Christianity is more relevant now than ever. As human beings, we cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope. Christianity provides us with unsurpassed resources to meet these needs. Written for both the ardent believer and the skeptic, Making Sense of God shines a light on the profound value and importance of Christianity in our lives.
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Total Pages : 8 pages
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Download or read book The Ethics of Belief. [By William K. Clifford. A Paper Read Before the Metaphysical Society.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis P. Pojman
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
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Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Religious Belief and the Will written by Louis P. Pojman and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clifford Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725264692
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Existential Reasons for Belief in God written by Clifford Williams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lived faith involves doctrines, evidences and rational coherence—but it includes much more. Philosopher Clifford Williams puts forth an argument as to why certain needs, desires and emotions have a legitimate place in drawing people into faith in God. Addressing the strongest objections to these types of grounds for faith, he shows how the personal and experiential aspects of belief play an important part in coming to faith and in remaining a believing person.
Author : William James
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537445984
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (459 download)
Download or read book The Will to Believe written by William James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Will to Believe - William James. "The Will to Believe" is a lecture by William James, first published in 1896, which defends, in certain cases, the adoption of a belief without prior evidence of its truth. In particular, James is concerned in this lecture about defending the rationality of religious faith even lacking sufficient evidence of religious truth. James states in his introduction: "I have brought with me tonight [...] an essay in justification of faith, a defense of our right to adopt a believing attitude in religious matters, in spite of the fact that our merely logical intellect may not have been coerced. 'The Will to Believe, ' accordingly, is the title of my paper." James' central argument in "The Will to Believe" hinges on the idea that access to the evidence for whether or not certain beliefs are true depends crucially upon first adopting those beliefs without evidence. As an example, James argues that it can be rational to have unsupported faith in one's own ability to accomplish tasks that require confidence. Importantly, James points out that this is the case even for pursuing scientific inquiry. James then argues that like belief in one's own ability to accomplish a difficult task, religious faith can also be rational even if one at the time lacks evidence for the truth of one's religious belief.
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Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book Psychological Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 49, no. 4, pt. 2 (July 1952) is the association's Publication manual.
Author : James C. S. Wernham
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773505674
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (56 download)
Download or read book James's Will-To-Believe Doctrine written by James C. S. Wernham and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1987 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1896 William James published an essay entitled The Will to Believe, in which he defended the legitimacy of religious faith against the attacks of such champions of scientific method as W.K. Clifford and Thomas Huxley. James's work quickly became one of the most important writings in the philosophy of religious belief. James Wernham analyses James's arguments, discusses his relation to Pascal and Renouvier, and considers the interpretations, and misinterpretations, of James's major critics. Wernham shows convincingly that James was unaware of many destructive ambiguitities in his own doctrines and arguments, although clear and consistent in his view that our obligation to believe in theism is not a moral but a prudential obligation -- a foolish-not-to-believe doctrine, rather than a not-immoral-to-believe one. Wernham also shows that the doctrine is best read as affirming the wisdom of gambling that God exists, a notion which James failed to distinguish from believing and which, among other things, he explicitly identified with faith. James's pragmatism, a theory concerning the meaning of truth, is shown to be quite distinct from the doctrine of The Will to Believe. In concentrating on a careful analysis of this doctrine of the will-to-believe, Wernham not only makes a major contribution to understanding James's philosophy, but also clarifies issues in the philosophy of religion and in the analysis of belief and faith.
Author : Kelly James Clark
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802804563
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Return to Reason written by Kelly James Clark and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1990-03-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clark provides a penetrating critique of the Enlightenment assumption of evidentialism--that belief in God requires the support of evidence or arguments to be rational. His assertion is that this demand for evidence is itself both irrelevant and irrational. His work bridges the gap between technical philosopher and educated layperson.
Author : Harrison Ross Steeves
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Total Pages : 558 pages
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Download or read book Representative Essays in Modern Thought written by Harrison Ross Steeves and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William James
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ISBN 13 : 9781549583346
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (833 download)
Download or read book William James written by William James and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Will to Believe" is a lecture by William James, first published in 1896, which defends, in certain cases, the adoption of a belief without prior evidence of its truth. In particular, James is concerned in this lecture about defending the rationality of religious faith even lacking sufficient evidence of religious truth. James states in his introduction: "I have brought with me tonight an essay in justification of faith, a defense of our right to adopt a believing attitude in religious matters, in spite of the fact that our merely logical intellect may not have been coerced. 'The Will to Believe,' accordingly, is the title of my paper." James' central argument in "The Will to Believe" hinges on the idea that access to the evidence for whether or not certain beliefs are true depends crucially upon first adopting those beliefs without evidence. As an example, James argues that it can be rational to have unsupported faith in one's own ability to accomplish tasks that require confidence. Importantly, James points out that this is the case even for pursuing scientific inquiry. James then argues that like belief in one's own ability to accomplish a difficult task, religious faith can also be rational even if one at the time lacks evidence for the truth of one's religious belief.The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James. It comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which were delivered at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 1901 and 1902. The lectures concerned the nature of religion and the neglect of science in the academic study of religion. Soon after its publication, Varieties entered the Western canon of psychology and philosophy and has remained in print for over a century. James was most interested in direct religious experiences. Theology and the organizational aspects of religion were of secondary interest. He believed that religious experiences were simply human experiences: "Religious happiness is happiness. Religious trance is trance." He believed that religious experiences can have "morbid origins" in brain pathology and can be irrational but nevertheless are largely positive. Unlike the bad ideas that people have under the influence of a high fever, after a religious experience the ideas and insights usually remain and are often valued for the rest of the person's life. Under James' pragmatism, the effectiveness of religious experiences proves their truth, whether they stem from religious practices or from drugs: "Nitrous oxide ... stimulate the mystical consciousness in an extraordinary degree."
Author : William James
Publisher : Independently Published
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Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (672 download)
Download or read book The Will to Believe Illustrated written by William James and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Will to Believe" is a lecture by William James, first published in 1896, which defends, in certain cases, the adoption of a belief without prior evidence of its truth. In particular, James is concerned in this lecture about defending the rationality of religious faith even lacking sufficient evidence of religious truth. James states in his introduction: "I have brought with me tonight an essay in justification of faith, a defense of our right to adopt a believing attitude in religious matters, in spite of the fact that our merely logical intellect may not have been coerced. 'The Will to Believe, ' accordingly, is the title of my paper."James' central argument in "The Will to Believe" hinges on the idea that access to the evidence for whether or not certain beliefs are true depends crucially upon first adopting those beliefs without evidence. As an example, James argues that it can be rational to have unsupported faith in one's own ability to accomplish tasks that require confidence. Importantly, James points out that this is the case even for pursuing scientific inquiry. James then argues that like belief in one's own ability to accomplish a difficult task, religious faith can also be rational even if one at the time lacks evidence for the truth of one's religious belief.
Author : Thomas Albert Lewis
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Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Judgment as Belief written by Thomas Albert Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John R. Shook
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004495134
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Pragmatism written by John R. Shook and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to fill a large gap in American philosophy scholarship, this bibliography covers the first four decades of the pragmatic movement. It references most of the philosophical works by the twelve major figures of pragmatism: Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, George H. Mead, F.C.S. Schiller, Giovanni Papini, Giovanni Vailati, Guiseppe Prezzolini, Mario Calderoni, A.W. Moore, John E. Boodin, and C.I. Lewis. It also includes writings of dozens of minor pragmatic writers, along with those by commentators and critics of pragmatism. It encompasses literature not only concerning pragmatism as an alliance of philosophical theories of meaning, inquiry, belief, knowledge, logic, truth, ontology, value, and morality, but also as an intellectual and cultural force impacting art, literature, education, the social and natural sciences, religion, and politics. This bibliography contains 2,794 main entries and more than 2,000 additional references, organized by year of publication. 2,101 of the references include annotation. Its international scope is focused on writings in English, French, German, and Italian, though many other languages are also represented. Peter H. Hare contributed the Guest Preface. The introduction contains an historical orientation to pragmatism and guides to recent studies of pragmatic figures. This work is extensively cross-referenced, and it has exhaustive and lengthy author and subject indexes.
