No professor's lectures can save us : William James's pragmatism, radical empiricism, and pluralism /

"No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us: William James's Pragmatism, Radical Empiricism, and Pluralism draws critically on the full range of the writings of William James--his psychology, theory of belief and truth, radical empiricism, pluralism, and his accounts of religion, ethics, pol...

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Main Author: Stuhr, John J. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
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