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Jamesian
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PragmatismWilliam James's 1906–1907 Lowell Institute and Columbia University lectures: pragmatism as a philosophical method that clears metaphysical disputes by asking what concrete difference each alternative makes in practice.The Varieties of Religious ExperienceWilliam James's Gifford Lectures on natural religion, delivered at Edinburgh in 1901 and 1902 and published in 1902 — the complete twenty lectures with preface, postscript, index, and all 363 of the author's footnotes, treating conversion, saintliness, and mystical experience as evidence for a psychology of religion.The Varieties of Religious Experience — MysticismWilliam James's Gifford Lectures XVI and XVII (1902): the phenomenology of mystical consciousness, from its four marks through yoga, Sufism, Christian mysticism, and James's three-part assessment of its authority.The Will to BelieveWilliam James's 1896 defence of the right to adopt a believing attitude in religious matters even when logical intellect has not been coerced — the case for voluntary faith as a live, forced, and momentous option.