William James and the Metaphysics of Experience

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Preliminaries; Contents; Note on the text; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: James's radically empiricist Weltanschauung; Chapter 2: From psychology to religion: pure experience and radical empiricism in the 1890s; Chapter 3: The Varieties of Religious Experience: indications of a philosophy adapted to normal religious needs; Chapter 4: Squaring logic and life: making philosophy intimate in A Pluralistic Universe; Chapter 5: Estimations and anticipations; Select Bibliography; Index.;William James is frequently considered one of America's most important philosophers, as well as a foundational thinker for the study of religion. In this new interpretation David Lamberth argues that James's major contribution was to develop a systematic metaphysics of experience integrally related to his pluralistic and social religious ideas. Preliminaries Contents Note on the text Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: James's radically empiricist Weltanschauung Chapter 2: From psychology to religion: pure experience and radical empiricism in the 1890s Chapter 3: The Varieties of Religious Experience: indications of a philosophy adapted to normal religious needs Chapter 4: Squaring logic and life: making philosophy intimate in A Pluralistic Universe Chapter 5: Estimations and anticipations Select Bibliography Index.