He proposed that a genuine option must be live, momentous, and forced in a volume that included the essays, "Reflex Action and Theism," "Is Life Worth Living?," and the title essay, "The Will to Believe.
This man wrote an essay in which he questioned why dogs don't form rational ideas, entitled "Brute and Human Intellect," and in a later work, he called for a scientific determination of the limits of human ability in "The Energies of Man."  He proposed that a genuine option must be live, momentous, and forced in a volume that included the essays, "Reflex Action and Theism," "Is Life Worth Living?," and the title essay, "The Will to Believe." This man also claimed that one must not consider an object's physical derivation when making a value judgement. For 10 points, name this author of The Varieties of Religious Experience, Principles of Psychology and a work titled after this man's school, Pragmatism.
This man wrote an essay in which he questioned why dogs don't form rational ideas, entitled "Brute and Human Intellect," and in a later work, he called for a scientific determination of the limits of human ability in "The Energies of Man."  
William James