William James

The Will to Believe (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Merkaba Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 6610000019847
• Artikelnr.: 59896316

Autorenporträt

William James was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist. He was born on January 11, 1842, and died on August 26, 1910. He was the first teacher in the United States to teach a psychology course. James and Charles Sanders Peirce started the philosophical school called pragmatism, and James is also considered one of the founders of functional psychology. James studied medicine, physiology, and biology, and he started teaching in those fields. However, he was drawn to the scientific study of the human mind at a time when psychology was becoming a science. James's knowledge of the work of people like Hermann Helmholtz in Germany and Pierre Janet in France helped him get scientific psychology classes started at Harvard University. In the 1875-1876 school year, he taught his first experimental psychology class at Harvard.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The will to believe
2. Is life worth living
3. The sentiment of rationality
4. Reflex action and theism
5. The dilemma of determinism
6. The moral philosopher and the moral life
7. Great men and their environment
8. The importance of individuals
9. On some Hegelisms
10. What psychical research has accomplished
Index.