| Prudential Arguments, Naturalized Epistemology, and the Will to Believe |
| Henry Jackman |
| Transactions of the C.S Peirce Society Winter 1999, Vol. XXXV, No. 1. |
| Area 1 American Pragmatism |
| Area 2 Epistemology |
| Keywords James Justification Will to Believe |
| http://www.yorku.ca/hjackman/papers/wtb.pdf |
| This paper argues that treating James' "The Will to Believe" as a defense of prudential reasoning about belief seriously misrepresents it. Rather than being a precursor to current defenses of prudential arguments, James paper has, if anything, more affinities to certain prominent strains in contemporary naturalized epistemology. |
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