The epistemology of religious experience /
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| Author / Creator: | Yandell, Keith E., 1938- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University, 1993. |
| Description: | viii, 371 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3523324 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Is our task impossible or impolite?
- Part I. The Experiential Data
- 1. Religious experience, "East" and "West"
- 2. Some basic epistemological concepts
- Part II. The Challenge from Ineffability
- 3. The outlines of ineffability
- 4. Ineffability relative to particular languages
- 5. Reasons in ineffability's favor
- Part III. The Social Science Challenge
- 6. Nonepistemic explanation of belief
- 7. Nonreligious explanation of religious belief
- Part IV. The Religious Challenge
- 8. Self-authentication and verification
- 9. Religious practices and experiential confirmation
- Part V. The Argument from Religious Experience
- 10. The argument in twentieth-century philosophy
- 11. The principle of experiential 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
- Bibliography
- Index
