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The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

by William James (1842–1910)

29 chapters, about 88,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE. 1,800 words
2. THE WILL TO BELIEVE.[1] 300 words
3. I. 400 words
4. II. 700 words
5. III. 900 words
6. V. 600 words
7. VI. 900 words
8. VII. 500 words
9. VIII. 600 words
10. IX. 900 words
11. X. 1,900 words
12. I. 500 words
13. II. 1,000 words
14. III. 2,800 words
15. IV. 3,500 words
16. I. 13,200 words
17. MEMBERS OF THE MINISTERS' INSTITUTE: 9,100 words
18. THE DILEMMA OF DETERMINISM.[1] 10,300 words
19. THE MORAL PHILOSOPHER AND THE MORAL LIFE.[1] 500 words
20. I. 1,000 words
21. II. 2,600 words
22. III. 2,700 words
23. IV. 700 words
24. V. 1,200 words
25. GREAT MEN AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT.[1] 9,000 words
26. THE IMPORTANCE OF INDIVIDUALS. 1,800 words
27. ON SOME HEGELISMS.[1] 9,600 words
28. WHAT PSYCHICAL RESEARCH HAS ACCOMPLISHED.[1] 7,800 words
29. INDEX. 1,500 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Agnosticism
• Determinism
• Future
• Hypothesis
• Identity (social science)
• Neutrality (philosophy)
• Personal god
• Personality
• Rationality
• Religion
• Romanticism
• Subjectivism
• Suicide
• Suicide (Durkheim book)
• Waverley (novel)

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