[PDF] A Will To Believe eBook

Author : Scott Aikin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1623560179

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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 : R. C. Sproul
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1585581534

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What is the role of the will in believing the good news of the gospel? Why is there so much controversy over free will throughout church history? R. C. Sproul finds that Christians have often been influenced by pagan views of the human will that deny the effects of Adam's fall. In Willing to Believe, Sproul traces the free-will controversy from its formal beginning in the fifth century, with the writings of Augustine and Pelagius, to the present. Readers will gain understanding into the nuances separating the views of Protestants and Catholics, Calvinists and Arminians, and Reformed and Dispensationalists. This book, like Sproul's Faith Alone, is a major work on an essential evangelical tenet.

Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199572895

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A Will to Believe is a revised version of Kastan's 2008 Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures, providing a provocative account of the ways in which religion animates Shakespeare's plays.

Author : William Kingdon Clifford
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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This book combines the two essays which comprise the famous philosophical exchange between the mathematician William Kingdon Clifford and William James, a psychologist and philosopher. Famous for articulating their arguments and discussing morality surrounding belief, these two papers are united in a single edition.

Author : William James
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1101221615

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The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. 'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the full text is included here along with 'The Meaning of Truth', 'Psychology', 'The Will to Believe', and 'Talks to Teachers on Psychology'.

Author : Robert J. O'Connell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Belief and doubt
ISBN : 9780823285211

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William James's celebrated lecture on "The Will to Believe" has kindled spirited controversy since the day it was delivered. In this lively reappraisal of that controversy, Father O'Connell contributes some fresh contentions: that James's argument should be viewed against his indebtedness to Pascal and 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 weighting of the evidence for belief. For this second edition, Father O'Connell has added extensively to sharpen his arguments: that James's "deontological streak" saves him from "wishful thinking" and weaves together the attitudes of right, readiness, willingness, and will to believe, and that "willing faith" lends "the facts" their aura of believability.

Author : Karl T. Pflock
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 2001-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1615925015

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For over 50 years an incident near Roswell, New Mexico, has sparked UFO enthusiasts. In this definitive study of the incident, researcher Karl T. Pflock uncovers the mystery of the alien craft and bodies supposedly found at Roswell. Photos.

Author : William James
Publisher : Jovian Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1537808729

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The work of William James contributed greatly to the burgeoning fields of psychology, particularly in the areas of education, religion, mysticism and pragmatism. The brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James, William wrote several powerful essays expressing his ideas on the pragmatic theory of truth, sentience, and human beings' right to believe.

Author : Michael R. Slater
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052176016X

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A new interpretation of James's ethical and religious thought focusing on the prominent role these views played in his philosophy.