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William James is frequently considered one of America's most important philosophers, as well as a foundational thinker for the study of religion. Despite his reputation as the founder of pragmatism, he is rarely considered a serious philosopher or religious thinker. In this new interpretation David Lamberth argues that James's major contribution was to develop a systematic metaphysics of experience integrally related to his developing pluralistic and social religious ideas. Lamberth systematically interprets James's radically empiricist world-view and argues for an early dating (1895) for his commitment to the metaphysics of radical empiricism. He offers a close reading of Varieties of Religious Experience; and concludes by connecting James's ideas about experience, pluralism and truth to current debates in philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and theology, suggesting James's functional, experiential metaphysics as a conceptual aid in bridging the social and interpretive with the immediate and concrete while avoiding naive realism.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: William James and the Metaphysics of Experience
• Author: David C. Lamberth
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780521581639
• ISBN: 052158163X
• ID: 02036108
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 500 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. May 1999

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