William James and the Metaphysics of Experience
William James and the Metaphysics of Experience

Author: David C. Lamberth

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-05-20

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1139425404

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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.

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals

Author: Iris Murdoch

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1994-03-01

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1101495790

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The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities which make us truly human? Here, drawing on a novelist's insight into art, literature and abnormal psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, thinkers and theologians—from Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derrida—to provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial questions.

The Metaphysic of Experience in Advaita Vedānta
The Metaphysic of Experience in Advaita Vedānta

Author: Debabrata Sinha

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788120809420

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The central thesis of Sankara`s Advaita Vedanta is embodied in the unique doctrine of Pure Consciousness. But the authentic significance of the latter is often overlooked in the stereotype of a metaphysics of Brahman combined with an illusionistic philoso

The Metaphysics of Experience
The Metaphysics of Experience

Author: Elizabeth Kraus

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0823283151

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The Metaphysics of Experience styles itself as "a Sherpa guide to Process and Reality, whose function is to assist the serious reader in grasping the meaning of the text and to prevent falls into misinterpretation." Although originally published in 1925, Process and Reality has perhaps even more relevance to the contemporary scene in physics, biology, psychology, and the social sciences than it had in the mid-twenties. Hence its internal difficulty, its quasi-inaccessibility, is all the more tragic, since, unlike most metaphysical endeavors, it is capable of interpreting and unifying theories in the above sciences in terms of an organic world view, instead of selecting one theory as the paradigm and reducing all others to it. Because Alfred North Whitehead is so crucial to modern philosophy, The Metaphysics of Experience plays an important role in making Process and Reality accessible to a wider readership.