Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Crosby, Donald A.

Titel

The Reach of Empathy: William James's Metaphysics and the Environmental Crisis

Ist Teil von

• American journal of theology & philosophy, 2020-05, Vol.41 (2-3), p.133-150

Ort / Verlag

West Lafayette: University of Illinois Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The philosopher whose metaphysical (and epistemological) vision Crosby proposes to investigate and defend in its relation to the climate crisis is William James. James was an ardent outdoorsman who relished hiking in the New England Adirondack Mountains. He was trained in physiology and medicine and wrote an early, much-referenced two-volume work called The Principles of Psychology. But he spent most of his life and career as a philosopher. He wrote widely about most of the traditional major problems of philosophy, such as epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion, and metaphysics, and, most importantly, about the relations of these fields of thought with one another. He was more of a holistic thinker than a specialist in any one of these fields. His metaphysical ideas reflect this holistic orientation of his thought. Here, he discusses the following aspects of James's philosophy with a focus throughout on his metaphysical view.