William James on radical empiricism and religion
By: Hunter Brown.
Series: Toronto studies in philosophy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: James, William, 1842-1910.; Religion -- Philosophy.; Empiricism.; Pragmatism.
Description: "The central argument presented here is that critics have failed to look at James's philosophical vision as a whole. This failure is addressed by Brown as he locates James's thought on religion within the wider scope of Radical Empiricism's analyses of experience in general, and subject-object relations in particular.

Brown presents the main interpretations and critiques of James's work, and shows that James's views of religious experience, evil and power, human responsibility, and ethical concerns do not in fact lapse into subjectivism and fideism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-177) and index.