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Tobias Tan

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William James and Embodied Religious Belief

Contemporary Pragmatism August 31, 2018 Tobias Tan 3 citations

Scholars have recently identified resemblances between pragmatist thought and contemporary trends in cognitive science in the area of ‘embodied cognition’ or ‘4E cognition.’ In this article I explore these resemblances in the account of religious belief provided by the classical pragmatist philosopher William James. Although James’s psychology does not always parallel the commitments of...