Rainbow of Experiences, Critical Trust, and God

A Defense of Holistic Empiricism

AvKai-man Kwan

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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The question of whether religious experience can be trusted has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of religion in recent years. Kwan surveys this contemporary philosophical debate, provides in-depth analysis of the crucial issues, and offer arguments for an affirmative answer to the above question. Kwan first argues against traditional empiricist epistemologies and defends Swinburne's Principle of Credulity which holds that we should trust our experiences unless there are special considerations to the contrary. The Principle of Credulity is renamed the Principle of Critical Trust to highlight the need for balance between trust and criticism and is used as the foundation for a new approach to epistemology, the Critical Trust Approach (CTA), which maintains an emphasis on experience but attempts to break loose of the straitjacket of traditional empiricism by broadening the evidential base of experience. Kwan then widens his focus by looking at theistic experience in the contemporary multicultural context.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-05-23
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:458 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781623564551

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Kai-man Kwan is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University.Richard Swinburne, FBA, is Emeritus Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford

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"The argument to God 'from religious experience' is often presented as an argument from a very peculiar type of experience which religious people have, quite unlike our other experiences. This book is unique in describing so comprehensively and within one volume the data of many different kinds of related human experience, data often hard to describe and so easy to neglect. It thus locates the 'argument from religious experience' within a rich and deep background, which brings it to life and makes it much more plausible. I am very happy to commend this wide-ranging book, to what I hope will be a wide-ranging public." -- From the Foreword by Richard Swinburne, FBA, Emeritus Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford, UK

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AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPART A: GOD, CRITICAL TRUST AND HOLISTIC EMPIRICISM Chapter 1 Contemporary Resurgence of the Argument from Religious Experience Chapter 2 Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Rainbow of ExperiencesChapter 3 Towards Holistic Empiricism Chapter 4 The Critical Trust Approach Chapter 5 A Post-foundationalist Argument from Religious ExperienceChapter 6 Critique of Narrow Empiricism Chapter 7 Arguments for the Principle of Critical Trust Chapter 8 The Critical Trust Approach & Other Epistemologies PART B: CRITICAL TRUST, THE RAINBOW OF EXPERIENCES & GODChapter 9 Experience of the Natural World, Critical Trust and God Chapter 10 Experience of Self, Critical Trust and God Chapter 11 Existential Experience, Critical Trust and God Chapter 12 Interpersonal Experience, Critical Trust and God Chapter 13 Moral Experience, Critical Trust and God Chapter 14 Aesthetic Experience, Critical Trust and GodChapter 15 Intellectual Experience, Critical Trust and GodChapter 16 Religious Experience, Critical Trust and GodChapter 17 Theistic Experience, Critical Trust and GodChapter 18 The Beauty of the Rainbow of Experiences and the Consilience of Theism Chapter 19 ConclusionNotesBibliographySubject IndexName Index