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Libra Esoterica

The will to believe

and other essays in popular philosophy

by William James

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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This volume contains the complete texts of two books by America's most important psychologust and philospher. Easy to understand, yet, brilliant and penetrating, the books were written specifically for laymen and they are still stimulating reading for readers concerned with important questions of belief in an age of science. Human Immorality: Two supposed Objections to the Doctrine, reprinted here from the corrected second edition, examines the questions of survival after death, and provides an unusual philosophical rebuttal to the theory that thought and personality necesscarily die with the brain.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences, Parapsychology and psychical research, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Spiritualism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Spiritualism”· via Open Library
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject
  • Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Immortality”. Retained metadata contains “Immortality” in the subject metadata.

    • “Immortality”· via Open Library
    • “Immortality”· in subject
  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Psychical research”. Retained metadata contains “Psychical research” in the subject metadata.

    • “Psychical research”· via Internet Archive
    • “Psychical research”· via Open Library
    • “Psychical research”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 15 editions; 2 cataloged here.

and other essays in popular philosophy

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1897-01-01T00:00:00ZNew York : LongmansEnglish—Public digitized item

and other essays in popular philosophy

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1899Longmans, Green, and Co.English—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Robarts - University of Toronto
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: toronto
  • Open Library reports 15 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: ias2
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