William James's Radically Empirical Philosophy of Religion

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-79137-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Palgrave Perspectives on Process Philosophy

This book takes a stand against and critiques readings of William James that do not pay attention to the metaphysics of experience. Such interpretations overlook the first mentions of radical empiricism in James’s argument. By attending to James's metaphysics of experience, this book argues that James’s universe is a “quasi-chaos” of becoming in our relations with nature and other people, so that things independent of us relate, evolve, and change in space and time. James’s metaphysics of relations is what unifies his various psychological, poetic, mystical, and religious commitments. These metaphysical implications have consequences for how James understood what metaphysics can do in philosophy, how it relates to theology, what we can say about his argument, mysticism, free-will, God’s finitism, the problem of One and the Many, and panpsychism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hackett, J. Edward

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Metaphysics in James, Its Limits, and the Implication for Religion.- Chapter 3: Truth, Relations and Religion.- Chapter 4: Radical Empiricism and the Affective Ground of Religion.- Chapter 5: Relational Becoming and Radical Empiricism.- Chapter 6: Panpsychism and the Problem of One and the Many.

Über Autor(innen)

J. Edward Hackett is an Assistant Professor at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Specializing in ethical theory, phenomenology, and American philosophy he is the co-editor of an anthology (2016). He’s published a book on Scheler and James titled (2018) and is co-editor alongside Eric Mohr of the forthcoming with Marquette University Press