No Professor’s Lectures Can Save Us William James’s Pragmatism, Radical Empiricism, and Pluralism

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English | ISBN: 0197664628 | 2022 | 310 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1505 KB + 14 MB
In No Professor’s Lectures Can Save Us, John J. Stuhr utilizes the thought of American philosopher and psychologist William James to develop an original world view that addresses both enduring philosophical problems and contemporary cultural issues.

Drawing on and illuminating the entirety of James’s work, Stuhr explores James’s psychology, his account of religious experience and his "will to believe" thesis, his pragmatism, his radical empiricism, his pluralism, and his writing on politics, democracy, and imperialism. Throughout, Stuhr engages the wide-ranging scholarship on James’s philosophy and explores connections between James and the work of Bergson, Deleuze, Dewey, Peirce, Rorty, and Whitehead, as well as intellectual movements including contemporary democratic theory, positive psychology, and philosophical naturalism.
After establishing the need to approach James’s writings as intimately interwoven, Stuhr turns to each of James’s major texts, including
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