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The Passional Nature and the Will to Believe
- Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 52, Number 1, Winter 2016
- pp. 62-78
- 10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.52.1.04
- Article
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A number of philosophers have called into question the wishful thinking reading of “The Will to Believe.” According to them, William James is not encouraging us to will what we