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The Will to Believe" is a lecture by William James, first published in 1896, [1] 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' answer is that history is resolving this problem for us, and our task is to co-operate in the process by which it does so, by which apparently irreconciliable demands are reconciled over time. One might say, although the terminology would be foreign to him, that he found his ethics within a pluralist meta-ethics .
Pages in category "Books by William James" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
William James in Brazil, 1865. William James was born at the Astor House in New York City on January 11, 1842. He was the son of Henry James Sr., a noted and independently wealthy Swedenborgian theologian well acquainted with the literary and intellectual elites of his day.
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, Scotland between 1901 and 1902.
James describes overbeliefs as "buildings-out performed by the intellect into directions of which feeling originally supplied the hint". [4] In overbelief, James explained the role of human temperament in philosophy, and particularly how it creates a bias on the part of a philosopher that could be stronger than any of his more objective premises. [5]
James would, indeed, have done better to say that phrases like "the good in the way of belief" and "what it is better for us to believe" are interchangeable with "justified" rather than with "true." (Rorty 1998, p. 2) (2) Conceptual relativity. With James and Schiller we make things true by verifying them—a view rejected by most pragmatists.
Will James expressed surprise at winning the Newbery Medal for Smoky the Cowhorse, since the book was published for adults. [2] An illustrated edition of Smoky the Cowhorse was issued in 1928. James loosely based the book on his first horse, Smoky, who was born in the Huff's cabin, near Val Marie , Saskatchewan , where James learned wrangling ...