James, W. (1917). The will to believe (From The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy). In W. James, Selected papers on philosophy (pp. 99-124). London, England: J M Dent & Sons.
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This reprinted article originally appeared in (The Will to Believe, pp. 1-31, 1915). (The following abstract of the original chapter appeared in record 2006-07507-001.) The essay examines our right to adopt a believing attitude in religious matters, in spite of the fact that our merely logical intellect may not have been coerced. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)