A Will to Believe is a revised version of Kastan's 2008 Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures, providing a provocative account of the ways in which religion animates Shakespeare's plays.
The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
As well as Clifford's argument from the examples of the shipowner, the consequences of credulity and his defence against skepticism, this book tackles James's conditions for a genuine option and the structure of the will to believe case as ...
This book, like Sproul's Faith Alone, is a major work on an essential evangelical tenet. What is the role of the will in believing the good news of the gospel? Why has there been so much controversy over free will throughout church history?
Let us give the name of hypothesis to anything that may be proposed to our belief; and just as the electricians speak of live and dead wires, let us speak of any hypothesis as either live or dead.
"A history of the Flat Earth movement and a look at the recent boom in conspiratorial thinking in America"--
Using formerly classified records he proves that the U.S. government has absolutely no physical evidence of aliens, shows how critical weather data completely refute key claims of Roswell believers, and explains why the case now rises and ...
This book offers a new interpretation of William James's ethical and religious thought.
A fresh analysis of Woodrow Wilson's national security strategy during World War I "By addressing all sides of the American debate on national security questions, and by showing both the...
'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the full text is included here along with 'The Meaning of Truth', 'Psychology', 'The Will to Believe', and 'Talks to Teachers on Psychology'.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion contains newly commissioned chapters by 21 prominent experts who cover the field in a comprehensive but accessible manner.