Ward, Roger A.

Conversion in American Philosophy Exploring the Practice of Transformation / Roger A. Ward. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (xli, 235 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-229) and index.

Introduction: Conversion and the practice of transformation -- The philosophical structure of Jonathan Edwards's religious affections -- Habit, habit change, and conversion in C.S. Peirce -- Reconstructing faith : religious overcoming in Dewey's pragmatism -- Transforming obligation in William James -- Dwelling in absence: the reflective origin of conversion -- Creative transformation : the work of conversion -- The evasion of conversion in recent American philosophy.

Open Access

9780823285297 0823285294




Philosophy, American--History.


Electronic books.

B851 / .W37 2004

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