Cockayne and Warman recently argued that William James’s argument as stated in his lecture ‘The Will to Believe’ can be reconstructed so as to justify a ‘passionately caused atheism.’ I will argue that this reading misses the important point of James’s argument, which is the attempt to show that our initial atheistic passional tendencies become untenable once we are aware of the beneficial consequences we might obtain from forming the belief that God exists.

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关于詹姆士主义的“热情引起的无神论信仰”：对科卡恩和沃曼的答复

库卡因和沃曼最近争辩说，威廉·詹姆斯在他的演讲《信仰的意愿》中所说的论点可以重建，以证明“一个由激情引起的无神论”的正当性。我会争辩说，这种读法错过了詹姆斯论点的要点，即试图表明，一旦我们意识到从形成上帝存在的信念中可能获得的有益后果，我们最初的无神论激情倾向就变得难以为继。