The Epistemology of Religious ExperienceThis book addresses a fundamental question in the philosophy of religion. Can religious experience provide evidence for religious belief? If so, how? Keith Yandell argues against the notion that religious experience is ineffable, while advocating the view that strong numinous experience provides some evidence that God exists. An attractive feature of the book is that it does not confine its attention to any one religious cultural tradition, but tracks the nature of religious experience across different traditions in both the East and the West. |
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Religious experience East and West | 15 |
Some basic epistemological concepts | 33 |
THE CHALLENGE FROM INEFFABILITY | 59 |
The outlines of ineffability | 61 |
Ineffability relative to particular languages | 81 |
Reasons in ineffabilitys favor | 97 |
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CHALLENGE | 117 |
Nonepistemic explanation of belief | 119 |
Religious practices and experiential confirmation | 183 |
THE ARGUMENT FROM RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE | 213 |
The argument in twentiethcentury philosophy | 215 |
The principle of experiential evidence | 233 |
The argument triumphant | 256 |
ENLIGHTENMENT AND CONCEPTUAL EXPERIENCE | 277 |
Are enlightenment experiences evidence for religious beliefs? | 279 |
Conceptual experience and religious belief | 322 |
Nonreligious explanation of religious belief | 135 |
THE RELIGIOUS CHALLENGE | 161 |
Selfauthentication and verification | 163 |
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