Packet 8: Tossup 2

Huw (“Hugh”) Price uses this book’s claim that “the trail of the human serpent is over everything” as a slogan for his theory of global expressivism. In a metaphor borrowed from Giovanni Papini, this book imagines its methodology as a “corridor in a hotel” where atheists, chemists, and metaphysicians occupy rooms. Frank Jackson’s paper “Epiphenomenal Qualia” applies a distinction from this book to groups of sea slug philosophers. This book suggests that believers (-5[1])in the Absolute are comforted by “moral holidays,” one of its responses to the author’s friend Josiah Royce. This book applies its definition of truth as “the expedient in the way of our thinking” to defuse debates between theism and materialism and other “tender” and “tough-minded” (10[1])stances. (10[4])For (10[1])10 points, (-5[1])meaning is identified (10[1])with “cash (10[1])value” in what series of lectures (10[1])by William (10[1])James? ■END■ (10[7]0[5])

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