期刊名称：Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education
印刷版ISSN：1970-2221
出版年度：2014
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：35-49
DOI：10.6092/issn.1970-2221/4290
语种：English
出版社：Dipartimento di Scienze Dell’Educazione «Giovanni Maria Bertin» - Università di Bologna
摘要：This essay studies the analysis that the psychologist and philosopher William James applies to the function of belief in relation to his concepts of the stream of thought and process of knowledge. Furthermore, it pays attention to James’s phenomenology of certainty within experience and to the explanation of the foundational place of feelings in experience. In James’s thought we may call certainty only what can provide a knowledge which stands in immediate relation to the inner state: the images provided by individual depths are both the locus of perplexity and the spring of certainty. The truth of beliefs is in this sense provisional upon the outcome of the continuing experience of understanding and of the continuing process of critical scrutiny.
其他摘要：This essay studies the analysis that the psychologist and philosopher WilliamJames applies to the function of belief in relation to his concepts of the stream ofthought and process of knowledge. Furthermore, it pays attention to James’s phenomenologyof certainty within experience and to the explanation of the foundationalplace of feelings in experience. In James’s thought we may call certainty onlywhat can provide a knowledge which stands in immediate relation to the innerstate: the images provided by individual depths are both the locus of perplexityand the spring of certainty. The truth of beliefs is in this sense provisional uponthe outcome of the continuing experience of understanding and of the continuingprocess of critical scrutiny.
