Title The rainbow of experiences, critical trust, and God : a defense of holistic empiricism / Kai-man Kwan

Published New York, New York ; London [England] : Continuum, 2011 ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (325 pages) Series Continuum Studies in Philosophy of Religion Continuum studies in philosophy of religion. Contents Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part A: God, Critical Trust, and Holistic Empiricism; 1 Contemporary Resurgence of the Argument from Religious Experience; 2 Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Rainbow of Experiences; 3 Toward Holistic Empiricism; 4 The Critical Trust Approach; 5 A Post-Foundationalist Argument from Religious Experience; 6 Critique of Narrow Empiricism; 7 Arguments for the Principle of Critical Trust; 8 The Critical Trust Approach and Other Epistemologies; Part B: Critical Trust, the Rainbow of Experiences, and God 9 Experience of the Natural World, Critical Trust, and God10 Experience of Self, Critical Trust, and God; 11 Existential Experience, Critical Trust, and God; 12 Interpersonal Experience, Critical Trust, and God; 13 Moral Experience, Critical Trust, and God; 14 Aesthetic Experience, Critical Trust, and God; 15 Intellectual Experience, Critical Trust, and God; 16 Religious Experience, Critical Trust, and God; 17 Theistic Experience, Critical Trust, and God; 18 The Beauty of the Rainbow of Experiences and the Consilience of Theism; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Subject Index; A; B; C; E; F; G IK; L; M; N; P; Q; S; T; W; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y Summary 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 Tru Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Print version record Subject God -- Proof, Empirical. RELIGION -- General. God -- Proof, Empirical Form Electronic book ISBN 9781441191373 1441191372

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