Keith E. Yandell (Madison University of Wisconsin)

The Epistemology of Religious Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

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. He contends that social science and other nonreligious explanations of religious belief and experience do not cancel out the evidential force of religious experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780521477413
• ISBN-10: 0521477417
• Artikelnr.: 21300414

Inhaltsangabe

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.