The Epistemology of Religious Experience
- Author: Keith E. Yandell, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Date Published: November 1994
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521477413
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This book addresses a fundamental question in the philosophy of religion. Can religious experience provide evidence for religious belief? If so, how? Keith Yandell argues against the notion that religious experience is ineffable, while advocating the view that strong numinous experience provides some evidence that God exists. An attractive feature of the book is that it does not confine its attention to any one religious cultural tradition, but tracks the nature of religious experience across different traditions in both the East and the West.
Read more- Addresses fundamental issue in philosophy of religion – whether religious experience provides evidence for religious belief
- Will appeal to both philosophers of religion and theologians
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"This is a meticulous, thoughtful, and progressive analysis and defense of the central question: Does religious experience provide evidence for religious belief?" Michael Pomedli, Review of Metaphysics
See more reviews" . . .this is a book which breaks new ground in the field, as well as putting some familiar points in a new context. It is to be warmly welcomed." --Mark Wynn, International Philosophical Quarterly
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- Date Published: November 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521477413
- length: 384 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.56kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: is our task impossible or impolite?
Part I. The Experimental Data:
1. Religious experience, 'East' and 'West'
Some basic epistemological concepts
Part II. The Challenge from Ineffability:
3. The outlines of ineffability
ineffability relative to particular languages
5. Reasons in ineffability's favour
Part III. The Social Science Challenge:
6. Nonepistemic explanation of belief
7. Non-religious explanation of religious belief
Part IV. The Religious Challenge:
8. Self-authentication and verification
9. Religious practices and experimential confirmation
Part V. The Argument from Religious Experience:
10. The argument in twentieth-century philosophy
11. The principle of experimential evidence
12. The argument triumphant
Part VI. Enlightenment and Conceptual Experience:
13. Are enlightenment experiences evidence for religious beliefs? 14. Conceptual experience and religious belief.
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