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## [April Reading: "The Will to Believe" by William James](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/april-reading-the-will-to-believe-by-william-james/444)

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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…