This article has a twofold purpose. On the one hand, it aims to reconstruct Josiah Royce’s views on evil. On the other hand, it intends to examine these Roycean views within the framework of Richard Bernstein’s work, ...

The question of meaning in language is one of the central themes of linguistics. However, studies on the construction and interpretation of meaning in language are not as well established as in other disciplines, such as ...

This book aims to address the challenges of defining measurement in social sciences, presenting a conceptualization of the practice of measurement from the perspective of the pragmatic tradition in philosophy. The book ...

The purpose of this article is to show the great influence of Luther's conception of religion on James' Varieties of Religious Experience. I will argue that James's conception of religion should be interpreted as a ...

A person who only reads Josiah Royce’s (1995 [1908]) The Philosophy of Loyalty and (2011 [1913]) The Problem of Christianity could easily assume that William James’ philosophy takes opposite views to Roycean ones on every ...

The primary object of this article is to analyze how William James and Richard Rorty conceive the sacred. The latter explicitly follows in his philosophy of religion a Jamesian path, which stresses the importance of ...