Religion and Radical Empiricism

Rarely in modern times has religion been associated with empiricism except to its own peril. This book represents a comprehensive and systematic effort to retrieve and develop the tradition of American religious empiricism for religious inquiry.
Religion and Radical Empiricism offers a challenging account of how and why reflection on religious truth-claims must seek justification of those claims finally in terms of empirical criteria. Ranging through many of the major questions in philosophy of religion, the author weaves together a study of the varieties of empiricism in all its historical forms from Hume to Quine. She finds in James and Dewey; in Wieman, Meland, and Loomer of the Chicago School; in Whitehead; and in Abhidharma Buddhism constructive elements of a radically empirical approach to the controversial topic of religious experience. This work provides a strong counter-argument to critics of "revisionary theism," to caricatures of philosophy as "conversation," and to any collapse of the category of experience into its linguistic forms.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Nancy Frankenberry is Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nancy K Frankenberry, Nancy K. Frankenberry
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.07.1987
• EAN: 9780887064098
• ISBN: 978-0-88706-409-8
• Seiten: 226
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 336 g
• Serien: Suny Series in Religious Studi; Suny Series in Religious Studi
• Thema: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges