Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, Philosophy professor and co-host of the Overthink podcast, discusses psychologist and philosopher William James and the concept of the "sense of reality" from his book The Varieties of Religious Experience. In this first video in our new series of video lectures on mind, consciousness, and self, David breaks down James' pragmatist analysis of religion and his rejection of both medical and theological accounts of the meaning of religious experience. How should we account for religious experience in our philosophical understandings of reality? What kinds of experiences are properly religious, and how do they change or stretch our common notions of reality?
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