TY - BOOK AU - Gavin,W.J. ED - Project Muse. TI - William James in focus: willing to believe T2 - American philosophy SN - 9780253007957 AV - B945.J24 G385 2013 U1 - 191 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press KW - James, William, KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; James's life: will to believe as affirmation -- "Will to believe": policing versus free-roaming -- Principles of psychology: consciousness as a constitutive stream -- Varieties of religious experience: mysticism as a vague "exemplar" -- Pragmatism: corridor as "latent" and "the will to believe" -- Metaphysics: radical empiricism and pure experience -- "Pure" versus "impure" experience: examples of pure experience -- Challenges to "the will to believe" -- Conclusion: pragmatism, death, and "the will to believe" UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253007957/ ER -