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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

546

April 7, 2026

Welcome to The Philosophy Forum :wave:

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The Problem of Happiness

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