James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

In these essays, you´ll find William James deeply embroiled in debates between religion and science. Combining philosophical charity with logical clarity, he defended the validity of religious experience against crass forms of scientism. Dewey identified the myriad ways in wich supernatural concerns distract religious adherents from pressing social concerns, and sought to reconcile the tensions inherent in science´s dual embrace of common sense and the aesthetic.