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A Comparative Doxastic-Practice Epistemology of Religious Experience

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies Book Series (volume 2)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09456-4

ISBN: 978-3-319-09455-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 19, 2014

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Chapter 1The Diversity Problem

Webb, Mark Owen

Pages: 1 –10

[For people with no religious beliefs, it is not clear what reasons can be given for why they should convert to any particular religion, particularly in the face of many competing claims. This book will employ William Alston’s doxastic-practice epistemology to argue that religious experiences can...
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Chapter 2The Cognitivity of Religious Language

Webb, Mark Owen

Pages: 11 –23

[Religious language has been challenged by verificationists as not cognitive, and so religious claims have no meaning. This challenge fails, because even limited versions of verificationism are untenable. Some have granted that religious language has meaning, but does not make assertions, so is...
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Chapter 3Religious Experience as Perceptual

Webb, Mark Owen

Pages: 25 –37

[An examination of reports of religious experiences from all traditions shows that they all have a perceptual character. While some have challenged the claim that they are perceptual on the grounds that naturalistic explanations provide a better explanation, or on the grounds that divine...
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Chapter 4The Justificatory Force of Religious Experience

Webb, Mark Owen

Pages: 39 –51

[Under ordinary circumstances, perceptual experience provides good grounds for belief. Some argue that religious experiences are unlike ordinary perception, and so do not justify the corresponding beliefs. Applying Alston’s doxastic practice approach to epistemology, we can see that the question...
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Chapter 5Buddhist Testimony and Christian Testimony

Webb, Mark Owen

Pages: 53 –64

[Even if religious experiences can provide good grounds for religious belief, the question remains whether someone else’s experience-reports provide good grounds for me to form similar beliefs, and accept their religious claims. Whether it is rational to accept religious testimony, or even...

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