No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us: William James's Pragmatism, Radical Empiricism, and Pluralism

In No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us, John J. Stuhr utilizes the thought of American philosopher and psychologist William James to develop an original world view that addresses both enduring philosophical problems and contemporary cultural issues.

Drawing on and illuminating the entirety of James's work, Stuhr explores James's psychology, his account of religious experience and his “will to believe” thesis, his pragmatism, his radical empiricism, his pluralism, and his writing on politics,...