William James and the Metaphysics of Experience

William James and the Metaphysics of Experience
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781139425407
ISBN-13 : 1139425404
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Book Synopsis William James and the Metaphysics of Experience by : David C. Lamberth

Download or read book William James and the Metaphysics of Experience written by David C. Lamberth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William James is frequently considered one of America's most important philosophers, as well as a foundational thinker for the study of religion. Despite his reputation as the founder of pragmatism, he is rarely considered a serious philosopher or religious thinker. In this new interpretation David Lamberth argues that James's major contribution was to develop a systematic metaphysics of experience integrally related to his developing pluralistic and social religious ideas. Lamberth systematically interprets James's radically empiricist world-view and argues for an early dating (1895) for his commitment to the metaphysics of radical empiricism. He offers a close reading of Varieties of Religious Experience; and concludes by connecting James's ideas about experience, pluralism and truth to current debates in philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and theology, suggesting James's functional, experiential metaphysics as a conceptual aid in bridging the social and interpretive with the immediate and concrete while avoiding naive realism.


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