The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time: William James's Reluctant Guide to Enlightenment

Author:   Jonathan Bricklin
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438456270


Pages:   402
Publication Date:   01 June 2015
Format:   Hardback
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The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time: William James's Reluctant Guide to Enlightenment


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Discusses how William James's work suggests a world without will, self, or time and how research supports this perspective.

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Author:   Jonathan Bricklin
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.689kg
ISBN:  

9781438456270


ISBN 10:   1438456271
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   01 June 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1. William James: A Guide for the Perplexed 2. Thoughts without a Thinker 3. Ghostbuster 4. The Feeling of Effort 5. Free Will and Indeterminism 6. Universe and Nulliverse 7. Precognition 8. Fate and Free Will 9. That Thou Art 10. Consciousness and Consciousness of Self 11. Psyche 12. Undoing unto Others As Well as Oneself 13. Belief in Fate Is not Fatalism 14. The Nonreality of Time 15. Eternalism Appendix Abbreviations for James Texts Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

We are taken step by step in a stunning tour of many powerful yet still disputed ideas that were fervently argued a century ago. Congratulations to Jonathan for a book that every psychologist should read whether doubtful of current paradigms or searching for new ones but mostly, for an enriching experience that brings these age-old controversies into relation with findings in modern physics and psychology. - Jason W. Brown, MD, Center for Cognition and Communication


We are taken step by step in a stunning tour of many powerful yet still disputed ideas that were fervently argued a century ago. Congratulations to Jonathan for a book that every psychologist should read whether doubtful of current paradigms or searching for new ones but mostly, for an enriching experience that brings these age-old controversies into relation with findings in modern physics and psychology. - Jason W. Brown, MD, Center for Cognition and Communication Despite all the interest in James the scholar and James the man, there remains an absence of highly readable books that bring some of the most colorful aspects of James' own thought, along with his somewhat mercurial personal character, to the modern reader. Bricklin's book does remarkable service in this vein, collecting many aspects of James' thought around the general theme of free will, a question that James struggled with his whole life, and which penetrated many dimensions of his thought. - Allan Combs


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Jonathan Bricklin is a Program Director at the New York Open Center and the editor of Sciousness.

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