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    William James and the ‘willfulness’ of belief
    European Journal of Philosophy 26 (1): 647-662. 2018.
    This paper explicates and defends some of William James' more controversial claims in ‘The Will to Believe’. After showing some of the weaknesses in standard interpretations of James' position, I turn to James' Principles of Psychology and The Varieties of Religious Experience to spell out in more detail James' account of the nature of the attitudes of belief, doubt, and disbelief and link them to an account of the subject. In so doing, the moral force of the argument comes to the fore by castin…Read more
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    Further Reading in Philosophy and Race
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 35 (1-2): 429-441. 2014.
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    Reconstructing the philosophical project of William James, Alexis Dianda deploys a concept of experience that avoids both foundationalist epistemology and an account of the subject rooted in immediately given objects of consciousness. In doing so, Dianda rethinks the role of experience as well as the aims and resources of pragmatic philosophy.
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    Introduction
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 33 (2): 279-282. 2012.
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    Preface
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 35 (1-2): 5-6. 2014.
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    The Problem with Levinas (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2015.
    Levinas's idea of ethics as a relation of responsibility to others has become highly influential. Simon Critchley proposes a dramatic new way of reading Levinas's work, and provides a less familiar, more troubling, account of it. He argues that Levinas's fundamental problem was the attempt to escape the tragic fatality of Heidegger's philosophy.