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April Reading: "The Will to Believe" by William James

pragmatism , essays

This month we’re reading “The Will to Believe” by William James. It was first delivered as a lecture to the Philosophical Clubs at Yale and Brown universities in 1896, and was published the same year in the journal The N…

107

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April 7, 2026

Welcome to The Philosophy Forum :wave:

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What do you think is more important : the individual or the collective?

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