Search Results - "Empiricism"

William James in focus willing to believe / by Gavin, W. J. (William J.), 1943-

Table of Contents: “…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".…”
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William James in focus willing to believe / by Gavin, W. J. (William J.), 1943-

Table of Contents: “…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".…”
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Semblance and event activist philosophy and the occurrent arts / by Massumi, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Activist philosophy and the occurrent arts -- The ether and your anger toward a speculative pragmatism -- The thinking-feeling of what happens putting the radical back in empiricism -- The diagram as technique of existence ovum of the universe segmented -- Arts of experience, politics of expression In four movements. …”
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Semblance and event activist philosophy and the occurrent arts / by Massumi, Brian

Table of Contents: “…Activist philosophy and the occurrent arts -- The ether and your anger toward a speculative pragmatism -- The thinking-feeling of what happens putting the radical back in empiricism -- The diagram as technique of existence ovum of the universe segmented -- Arts of experience, politics of expression In four movements. …”
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The future of reason, science and faith following modernity and post-modernity / by Kirk, J. Andrew

Table of Contents: “…An enigma and an idea -- An enquiry into the origins of modern science -- The turn to rationalism : justification by reason alone? -- The turn to empiricism : knowledge through science alone? -- The turn to historicism -- The turn to language -- The world in transit : between arrival and departure (part one) -- The world in transit : between arrival and departure (part two) -- Regaining a lost opportunity : the preconditions -- Regaining a lost opportunity : the conditions -- Summing up : the story, the enigma, the solution.…”
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The future of reason, science and faith following modernity and post-modernity / by Kirk, J. Andrew

Table of Contents: “…An enigma and an idea -- An enquiry into the origins of modern science -- The turn to rationalism : justification by reason alone? -- The turn to empiricism : knowledge through science alone? -- The turn to historicism -- The turn to language -- The world in transit : between arrival and departure (part one) -- The world in transit : between arrival and departure (part two) -- Regaining a lost opportunity : the preconditions -- Regaining a lost opportunity : the conditions -- Summing up : the story, the enigma, the solution.…”
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Songs of experience modern American and European variations on a universal theme / by Jay, Martin, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The trial of "experience" : from the Greeks to Montaigne and Bacon -- Experience and epistemology : the contest between empiricism and idealism -- The appeal of religious experience : Schleiermacher, James, Otto, and Buber -- Returning to the body through aesthetic experience : from Kant to Dewey -- Politics and experience : Burke, Oakeshott, and the English Marxists -- History and experience : Dilthey, Collingwood, Scott, and Ankersmit -- The cult of experience in American pragmatism : James, Dewey, and Rorty -- Lamenting the crisis of experience : Benjamin and Adorno -- The poststructuralist reconstitution of experience : Bataille, Barthes, and Foucault.…”
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Songs of experience modern American and European variations on a universal theme / by Jay, Martin, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The trial of "experience" : from the Greeks to Montaigne and Bacon -- Experience and epistemology : the contest between empiricism and idealism -- The appeal of religious experience : Schleiermacher, James, Otto, and Buber -- Returning to the body through aesthetic experience : from Kant to Dewey -- Politics and experience : Burke, Oakeshott, and the English Marxists -- History and experience : Dilthey, Collingwood, Scott, and Ankersmit -- The cult of experience in American pragmatism : James, Dewey, and Rorty -- Lamenting the crisis of experience : Benjamin and Adorno -- The poststructuralist reconstitution of experience : Bataille, Barthes, and Foucault.…”
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Thinking between Deleuze and Kant a strange encounter /

Table of Contents: “…The philosopher-monkey : learning and the discordant harmony of the faculties / Patricia Farrell -- Deleuze's transcendental empiricism : notes towards a transcendental materialism / Levi R. …”
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Thinking between Deleuze and Kant a strange encounter /

Table of Contents: “…The philosopher-monkey : learning and the discordant harmony of the faculties / Patricia Farrell -- Deleuze's transcendental empiricism : notes towards a transcendental materialism / Levi R. …”
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Variations on the messianic theme a case study of interfaith dialogue / by Wyse, Marion

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Confronting the impasse -- The impasse -- Entering the Jewish-Christian dialogue -- Introduction: Facing the past : Hoshoah as the great divide -- Present repentance : documents of the church -- Roman Catholic documents -- World Council of Churches documents -- Lutheran documents -- Other North American documents -- Dialogue as meta-framework -- Initial Christian attempts to approach Jesus as Jew -- 1965-1974 -- Faith and fratricide -- Conclusion: The dialogue at an impasse -- Exploring some christological paths -- Introduction: Urgency of the question -- John Pawlikowski : Jesus in the pharisaic context -- Paul van Buren : Christ in the Jewish context -- Rosemary Ruether : humanity as the collective Messiah -- Conclusion: Still at an impasse -- A way forward -- Examining the radical empirical method -- Choosing context as primary -- William James -- Alfred North Whitehead -- Empirical theology -- Bernard Lee's appropriation of empiricism -- Lee's retrieval of the Hebraic context : a critique -- Mapping some variations on the messianic theme -- Introduction: Contextualizing concepts -- The Jewish origin and development of the messianic concept -- The Christian shift and development of the messianic concept -- The messianic concept in context of the Jewish-Christian dialogue -- Among Jews -- Among Christians -- Conclusion: A way forward? …”
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Variations on the messianic theme a case study of interfaith dialogue / by Wyse, Marion

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Confronting the impasse -- The impasse -- Entering the Jewish-Christian dialogue -- Introduction: Facing the past : Hoshoah as the great divide -- Present repentance : documents of the church -- Roman Catholic documents -- World Council of Churches documents -- Lutheran documents -- Other North American documents -- Dialogue as meta-framework -- Initial Christian attempts to approach Jesus as Jew -- 1965-1974 -- Faith and fratricide -- Conclusion: The dialogue at an impasse -- Exploring some christological paths -- Introduction: Urgency of the question -- John Pawlikowski : Jesus in the pharisaic context -- Paul van Buren : Christ in the Jewish context -- Rosemary Ruether : humanity as the collective Messiah -- Conclusion: Still at an impasse -- A way forward -- Examining the radical empirical method -- Choosing context as primary -- William James -- Alfred North Whitehead -- Empirical theology -- Bernard Lee's appropriation of empiricism -- Lee's retrieval of the Hebraic context : a critique -- Mapping some variations on the messianic theme -- Introduction: Contextualizing concepts -- The Jewish origin and development of the messianic concept -- The Christian shift and development of the messianic concept -- The messianic concept in context of the Jewish-Christian dialogue -- Among Jews -- Among Christians -- Conclusion: A way forward? …”
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The serpent's gift gnostic reflections on the study of religion / by Kripal, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey John), 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Educational and sexual allegory ; On puberty and powers ; Denying the demiurge ; Toward a more radical empiricism ; Dissociation and the release of nonordinary energies ; On death as dissociation ; Real X-Men ; On x-clusions and x-ceptions ; Political allegory; or, how (not) to be an X-Man -- Conclusion: return to the garden. …”
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Origins on the genesis of psychic reality / by Mills, Jon, 1964-

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Origins on the genesis of psychic reality / by Mills, Jon, 1964-

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Rethinking Obligation : A Feminist Method for Political Theory / by Hirschmann, Nancy J.

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The serpent's gift gnostic reflections on the study of religion / by Kripal, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey John), 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Educational and sexual allegory ; On puberty and powers ; Denying the demiurge ; Toward a more radical empiricism ; Dissociation and the release of nonordinary energies ; On death as dissociation ; Real X-Men ; On x-clusions and x-ceptions ; Political allegory; or, how (not) to be an X-Man -- Conclusion: return to the garden. …”
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Rethinking Obligation : A Feminist Method for Political Theory / by Hirschmann, Nancy J.

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Farmers, scientists, and plant breeding integrating knowledge and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Scientific Plant Breeders and Collaboration -- 7 Selecting with Farmers: the Formative Years of Cereal Breeding and Public Seed in Switzerland (1889-1936) -- Jiirg Schneider -- 8 Theory, Empiricism and Intuition in Professional Plant Breeding -- Donald N. …”
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Science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, 1500-1800

Table of Contents: “…Commerce, curiosities, and the circulation of knowledge. Knowledge and empiricism in the sixteenth-century Spanish Atlantic world / Antonio Barrera-Osorio -- Voyaging in the Spanish baroque : science and patronage in the Pacific voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós, 1605-1606 / Kevin Sheehan -- Acquisition and circulation of medical knowledge within the early modern Portuguese colonial empire / Timothy Walker -- The rare, the singular, and the extraordinary : natural history and the collection of curiosities in the Spanish empire / Paula De Vos -- A visible and useful empire : visual culture and colonial natural history in the eighteenth-century Spanish world / Daniela Bleichmar.…”
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