On Jamesian ‘Passionally Caused Atheistic Belief’: a Reply to Cockayne and Warman

Cockayne and Warman recently argued that William James’s argument as stated in his lecture ‘The Will to Believe’ can be reconstructed so as to justify a ‘passionately caused atheism.’ I will argue that this reading misses the important point of James’s argument, which is the attempt to show that our...

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Main Author: Oya, Alberto (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands 2021
In: Sophia
Year: 2021, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 481-485
Further subjects:B William James
B The Will to Believe
B The Will Not to Believe
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