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Chapter Seven Belief and Other Things

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Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Introduction 3
  4. Beginnings
  5. The Nation Affair 11
  6. Message from the Mountains 17
  7. From Mountaineering to Metaphysics 24
  8. The Will to Believe
  9. Forced Options 33
  10. Momentous and Intellectually Undecidable Options 40
  11. The Religions Hypothesis 47
  12. Belief and Other Things 54
  13. Belief and Faith 60
  14. James and Some Others
  15. Clifford 69
  16. Pascal 75
  17. Bain 81
  18. Renouvier and Pragmatism 87
  19. Two Critics 93
  20. Conclusion 101
  21. Notes 107
  22. Bibliography 121
  23. Index 125
James's Will-To-Believe Doctrine
This chapter is in the book James's Will-To-Believe Doctrine
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780773561175-008

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. Introduction 3
  4. Beginnings
  5. The Nation Affair 11
  6. Message from the Mountains 17
  7. From Mountaineering to Metaphysics 24
  8. The Will to Believe
  9. Forced Options 33
  10. Momentous and Intellectually Undecidable Options 40
  11. The Religions Hypothesis 47
  12. Belief and Other Things 54
  13. Belief and Faith 60
  14. James and Some Others
  15. Clifford 69
  16. Pascal 75
  17. Bain 81
  18. Renouvier and Pragmatism 87
  19. Two Critics 93
  20. Conclusion 101
  21. Notes 107
  22. Bibliography 121
  23. Index 125
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