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  • The Varieties of Religious Experience

    by William James ...
    Harvard philosopher William James’s compiled lectures on religion, considered to be among the most brilliant studies of mankind’s relation to the divineWilliam James’s Varieties of Religious Experience brings together twenty lectures on the nature of religion, delivered at the University of Edinburgh between 1901 and 1902. Renowned at the time for their practical and even-handed approach to the ... Read more

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  • The Luciferian Doctrine#

    Series Book 1 - The Luciferian Doctrine
    #1st book/THIS WORK HAS BEEN BANNED EVERYWHERE/ SAVE IT - PRINT - SPREAD FORYOUR SURVIVAL.PLEASE **SPREAD** THIS VERSION OF FILE.The book features nearly all unknown secrets. Cracks in 100% nearly all topic of importance toyou, like..100% Health cracked,.100% Universal Laws (operating here cracked, how to take advantage),.In 100% describes Biblical Law of Jesus Christ which operates in this ... Read more

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  • The Metaphysical Club

    A Story of Ideas in America

    by Louis Menand ...
    The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History.A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation of modern American thought.The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. future ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Art of Travel

    Series series Vintage International
    A wise and utterly original book of travel essays from an international bestselling author that will “give one an expansive sense of wonder” (The Baltimore Sun).Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • William James: 6 books of philosophy and psychology

    by William James ...
    This book-collection file includes: Talks to Teachers, Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism, Pluralistic Universe, The Meaning of Truth, and Memories and Studies. According to Wikipedia: "William James (January 11, 1842 August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, ... Read more

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  • Status Anxiety

    Series series Vintage International
    “There's no writer alive like de Botton” (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status—a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love.Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in ... Read more

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  • Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance

    by Haim Shapira ...
    We all want to be happy but what is happiness? Haim Shapira navigates the terrain of happiness, exploring and contemplating an eclectic range of theories and insights into the conflicts we face on our journey to creating our own happiness.What is your happiest moment? How can you know it? Do we waste time or does time waste us? Are questions about meaning truly meaningful? What’s really important? ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Practical Wisdom

    The Right Way to Do the Right Thing

    A reasoned yet urgent call to embrace and protect the essential, practical human quality that has been drummed out of our lives: wisdom.It's in our nature to want to succeed. It's also human nature to want to do right. But we've lost how to balance the two. How do we get it back?Practical Wisdom can help. "Practical wisdom" is the essential human quality that combines the fruits of our individual ... Read more

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  • Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism

    Lessons from John Dewey

    Series series American Philosophy
    Larry A. Hickman presents John Dewey as very much at home in the busy mix of contemporary philosophy—as a thinker whose work now, more than fifty years after his death, still furnishes fresh insights into cutting-edge philosophical debates. Hickman argues that it is precisely the rich, pluralistic mix of contemporary philosophical discourse, with its competing research programs in French-inspired ... Read more

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  • Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives

    Series series American Philosophy
    This collection focuses primarily on Peirce’s realism, pragmatism, and theism, with attention to his tychism and synechism.Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives is available from the publisher on an open-access basis. ... Read more

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  • Charles S. Peirce

    On Norms and Ideals

    Series series American Philosophy
    In recent years, Charles Sanders Peirce has emerged, in the eyes of philosophers both in America and abroad, as one of America’s major philosophical thinkers. His work has forced us back to philosophical reflection about those basic issues that inevitably confront us as human beings, especially in an age of science. Peirce’s concern for experience, for what is actually encountered, means that his ... Read more

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  • Hablando Con Las Entidades

    Únete a Shannon O’Hara en un viaje por el mundo visto a través de ojos muy distintos.A través de la experiencia de una chica que crece viendo, oyendo y hablando con los espíritus, Hablando con las Entidades comparte una mirada excepcional en un mundo que muchos conocen, pero pocos reconocen. En algunas ocasiones, la consciencia de los demás a nuestro alrededor es una bendición, y en otras ... Read more

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  • William James: 8 Books of Philosophy

    by William James ...
    This file includes: The Will to Believe, Talks to Teachers on Psychology, Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism, Pluralistic Universe, The Meaning of Truth, Memories and Studies, and Essays in Radical Empiricism. According to Wikipedia: "William James (January 11, 1842 August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He was the first ... Read more

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  • Sick Souls, Healthy Minds

    How William James Can Save Your Life

    by John Kaag ...
    From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Toppling the Melting Pot

    Immigration and Multiculturalism in American Pragmatism

    Series series American Philosophy
    The catalyst for much of classical pragmatist political thought was the great waves of migration to the United States in the early twentieth century. José-Antonio Orosco examines the work of several pragmatist social thinkers, including John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Josiah Royce, and Jane Addams, regarding the challenges large-scale immigration brings to American democracy. Orosco argues that the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Varieties of Religious Experience

    by William James ...
    The psychology of religious belief. "If the inquiry be psychological, not religious institutions, but rather religious feelings and religious impulses must be its subject, and I must confine myself to those more developed subjective phenomena recorded in literature produced by articulate and fully self-conscious men, in works of piety and autobiography." According to Wikipedia: "William James ... Read more

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  • Pragmatism and Other Writings

    The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. '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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Wisdom of George Santayana

    Series series Wisdom
    A survey of the influential—and prolific—modern philosopherIn dozens of books, magazine articles, and essays, George Santayana infused his philosophy with exquisite language, wit, and subtle humor, prompting one authority to state that he “writes philosophy more beautifully than any other thinker since Plato.”The Wisdom of George Santayana makes accessible both his ideas and his oft-quoted ... Read more

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  • American Philosophy

    A Love Story

    by John Kaag ...
    The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life aroundJohn Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Pretty Pragmatism

    After Dinner Conversation, #6

    Series Book 6 - After Dinner Conversation
    Synopsis: A US Senator introduces a bill that borrows public policy ideas from the Nazi party. Can a good idea come from a horrible source?After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of William James (Illustrated)

    by William James ...
    Series Book 22 - Delphi Series Nine
    The philosopher and psychologist, William James (brother to the famous novelist Henry James) was a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century and one of the most influential American philosophers, regarded by many as the father of American psychology. James established the philosophical school known as pragmatism and is also cited as a founder of functional psychology. Noted for his rich and ... Read more

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  • Charles Peirce's Theory of Scientific Method

    Series series American Philosophy
    This book is an attempt to understand a significant part of the complex thought of Charles Sanders Peirce, especially in those areas which interested him most: scientific method and related philosophical questions. It is organized primarily from Peirce's own writings, taking chronological settings into account where appropriate, and pointing out the close connections of several major themes in ... Read more

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  • The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

    by William James ...
    According to Wikipedia: ""The Will to Believe" is a lecture by William James, first published in 1896, which defends, in certain cases, the adoption of a belief without prior evidence of its truth. In particular, James is concerned in this lecture about defending the rationality of religious faith even lacking sufficient evidence of religious truth. James' central argument in "The Will to Believe" ... Read more

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  • An Ethics for Today

    Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion

    One of the most widely discussed philosophers of the 21st century finds common ground between spiritual and secular ethics in this provocative book.As controversial and he was influential, Richard Rorty developed a brand of philosophical pragmatism that rejects all theories of truth. His groundbreaking work also dismisses modern epistemology and its preoccupation with knowledge and representation. ... Read more

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