La question de la justification pragmatiste de la verite des croyances religieuses apparait chez James des 1898 en tant que theorie alternative a la theorie royceenne de l’absolu. Reprise en 1902 dans The Varieties of Religious Experience, cette justification pragmatiste echoue pourtant a rendre compte correctement de la possible verite des croyances religieuses et, en derniere instance, a...
Many aspects of The Varieties of Religious Experience found their theoretical background in other books of James psychology or philosophy. In this article I try to connect his theory of imagination in The Principle of Psychology with his supernaturalism regarding religious experience. Both suppose a theory of the “feeling of reality” that explains how, under the working of imagination, abstract...