TY - JOUR
T1 - On Jamesian ‘Passionally Caused Atheistic Belief’
T2 - a Reply to Cockayne and Warman
AU - Oya, Alberto
N1 - UIDB/00183/2020
UIDP/00183/2020
PY - 2021/3/23
Y1 - 2021/3/23
N2 - Cockayne and Warman recently argued that William James’s argument as stated in his lecture ‘The Will to Believe’ can be reconstructed so as to justify a ‘passionately caused atheism.’ I will argue that this reading misses the important point of James’s argument, which is the attempt to show that our initial atheistic passional tendencies become untenable once we are aware of the beneficial consequences we might obtain from forming the belief that God exists.
AB - Cockayne and Warman recently argued that William James’s argument as stated in his lecture ‘The Will to Believe’ can be reconstructed so as to justify a ‘passionately caused atheism.’ I will argue that this reading misses the important point of James’s argument, which is the attempt to show that our initial atheistic passional tendencies become untenable once we are aware of the beneficial consequences we might obtain from forming the belief that God exists.
KW - The Will Not to Believe
KW - The Will to Believe
KW - William James
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103298758&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000631767100001
U2 - 10.1007/s11841-021-00832-w
DO - 10.1007/s11841-021-00832-w
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103298758
SN - 0038-1527
SP - 481
EP - 485
JO - Sophia
JF - Sophia
IS - 60
ER -