Wittgenstein Within the Philosophy of Religion

Informationen zum Autor Thomas D. Carroll is Professor of Philosophy at Xing Wei College in Shanghai, China. Klappentext The commonly held view that Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is fideistic loses plausibility when contrasted with recent scholarship on Wittgenstein's corpus and biography. This book reevaluates the place of Wittgenstein in the philosophy of religion and charts a path forward for the subfield by advancing three themes. Zusammenfassung The commonly held view that Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is fideistic loses plausibility when contrasted with recent scholarship on Wittgenstein's corpus and biography. This book reevaluates the place of Wittgenstein in the philosophy of religion and charts a path forward for the subfield by advancing three themes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Reading Wittgenstein on Religion 1. Problems of Interpretive Authority in Wittgenstein's Corpus 2. Wittgenstein, Biography, and Religious Identity 3. A History of Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Religion 4. The Traditions of Fideism 5. On 'Fideism' as an Interpretive Category 6. Religions, Epistemic Isolation, and Social Trust 7. Wittgenstein's Ethic of Perspicuity and the Philosophy of Religion Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: T. Carroll, Thomas D Carroll, Thomas D. Carroll, Thomas D. (Boston University) Carroll
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.07.2014
• EAN: 9781137407894
• ISBN: 978-1-137-40789-4
• Seiten: 229
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; B, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Metaphysics, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Analysis (Philosophy), Analytic Philosophy, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism, Ludwig Wittgenstein;philosophy of religion;religion