This work, which titles a collection that includes
This work includes a comparison of "live" or "dead" hypotheses to live and dead electric wires and discusses the momentous option of being asked to join Fridtjof Nansen's North Pole expedition. This work, which describes a conversation between its author and a biologist who refused to look for evidence of telepathy, begins by discussing an address by one Mr. Guest, who tells a student to prove the omnipotence of God. This work, which titles a collection that includes "Is Life Worth Living?" and "Reflex Action and Theism," challenges the schoolboy wisdom that faith concerns "something that you know ain't true." This work concerns the right to adopt a certain attitude in religious matters despite the fact that our "merely logical intellect may not have been coerced," and takes a different tack than its speaker's Gifford Lectures, which were compiled into The Varieties of Religious Experience. For 10 points, name this lecture about religious conviction by William James.
This work includes a comparison of "live" or "dead" hypotheses to live and dead electric wires and discusses the momentous option of being asked to join Fridtjof Nansen's North Pole expedition.
"The Will to Believe"