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Jackson Murtha - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Levinas and the Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy Compass, 2010Co-Authors: Stephen Minister, Jackson MurthaAbstract:This article explores the significance of the work of Emmanuel Levinas for the Philosophy of Religion. Levinas is well-known as the philosopher of the face of the other which provokes infinite responsibility. In his account of ethical responsibility to the other he regularly employs religious references, though rarely with extended explanations. This article considers a variety of interpretations of these religious references. Given the importance of Judaism for Levinas, we first examine whether Levinas should be understood as a philosopher or Jewish thinker, presenting arguments on both sides of this debate. We then investigate the relationship between ethics and Religion in Levinas’s work, including consideration of the Akedah and the problem of evil. We conclude with explorations of the relationship between reason and revelation and the question of how we ought to think about God. These reflections elucidate the contribution Levinas makes to the Philosophy of Religion.
Stig Børsen Hansen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Later Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy Compass, 2010Co-Authors: Stig Børsen HansenAbstract:This article sets out by distinguishing Wittgenstein’s own views in the Philosophy of Religion from a school of thought in the Philosophy of Religion that relies on later Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of language. After a survey of distinguishing features of Wittgenstein’s later Philosophy, the third section explores Wittgenstein’s treatment of Frazer’s account of magic among primitive peoples. The following section offers an account of Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion, including the use of the notions of a language game and superstition. I conclude by criticizing a very influential argument of Wittgenstein’s to the effect that the meaning of words like ‘belief’ and ‘object’ varies from context to context without having any one thing in common.
Victoria S Harrison - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Global Philosophy of Religion(s)
Religious Studies, 2019Co-Authors: Victoria S HarrisonAbstract:Drawing on the work of Mark Siderits, Jay Garfield, and others, I introduce a global approach to the Philosophy of Religion that is inspired by ‘fusion’, ‘engagement’, or ‘confluence’ Philosophy. To globalize the Philosophy of Religion requires more than expanding its traditional disciplinary scope or broadening its range of questions; it requires philosophers who are conversant in more than one philosophical tradition. I argue that this approach offers a viable way to develop the discipline by providing a platform for deep and authentic engagement in philosophical inquiry that crosses traditional religious and philosophical boundaries.
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probability in the Philosophy of Religion
2012Co-Authors: Jake Chandler, Victoria S HarrisonAbstract:Probability theory promises to deliver an exact and unified foundation for inquiry in epistemology and Philosophy of science. But Philosophy of Religion is also fertile ground for the application of probabilistic thinking. This volume presents original contributions from twelve contemporary researchers, both established and emerging, to offer a representative sample of the work currently being carried out in this potentially rich field of inquiry. Grouped into five parts, the chapters span a broad range of traditional issues in religious epistemology. The first three parts discuss the evidential impact of various considerations that have been brought to bear on the question of the existence of God. These include witness reports of the occurrence of miraculous events, the existence of complex biological adaptations, the apparent 'fine-tuning' for life of various physical constants and the existence of seemingly unnecessary evil. The fourth part addresses a number of issues raised by Pascal's famous pragmatic argument for theistic belief. A final part offers probabilistic perspectives on the rationality of faith and the epistemic significance of religious disagreement.
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What’s the use of Philosophy of Religion?
2011Co-Authors: Victoria S HarrisonAbstract:Many believe that Philosophy of Religion is in a state of crisis. Not only is there widespread disagreement about its aims, scope and method, there are also many who argue that the discipline has become irrelevant to the non-academic community. This last concern has taken on particular importance given the research impact agenda under discussion in many parts of the globe. This paper addresses the challenges currently faced by the discipline, and argues that it does have an important contribution to make to our response to problems that currently impact the public intellectual environment. After explaining some recent criticisms of Philosophy of Religion, the paper provides a different account of what has gone wrong with the discipline. It then proposes that the solution involves both recontextualizing Philosophy of Religion within the wider discipline of Philosophy and reconfiguring the discipline to be explicitly responsive to problems concerning Religion that are generated outside the academy. I argue that what is required to implement this solution is a dramatic expansion of the traditional scope of Philosophy of Religion to include a wider range of religio-philosophical traditions than was the case in the past.
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Philosophy of Religion fictionalism and religious diversity
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2010Co-Authors: Victoria S HarrisonAbstract:Until recently Philosophy of Religion has been almost exclusively focused upon the analysis of western religious ideas. The central concern of the discipline has been the concept “God”, as that concept has been understood within Judaeo-Christianity. However, this narrow remit threatens to render Philosophy of Religion irrelevant today. To avoid this Philosophy of Religion should become a genuinely multicultural discipline. But how, if at all, can Philosophy of Religion rise to this challenge? The paper considers fictionalism about religious discourse as a possible methodological standpoint from which to practice a tradition-neutral form of Philosophy of Religion. However, after examining some of the problems incurred by fictionalism, the paper concludes that fictionalism and religious diversity are uneasy bedfellows; which implies that fictionalism is unlikely to be the best theory to shape the practice of Philosophy of Religion in a multicultural context.
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feminist Philosophy of Religion and the problem of epistemic privilege
The Heythrop Journal, 2007Co-Authors: Victoria S HarrisonAbstract:There have been a number of developments within religious epistemology in recent years. Currently, the dominant view within mainstream Philosophy of Religion is, arguably, reformed epistemology. What is less well known is that feminist epistemologists have also been active recently within the Philosophy of Religion, advancing new perspectives from which to view the link between knowledge and religious experience. In this article I examine the claim by certain feminist religious epistemologists that women are both epistemically oppressed and epistemically privileged, and I consider whether or not this justifies the specific re-conceptualisations of religious terms that such epistemologists have proposed.
Stephen Minister - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Levinas and the Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy Compass, 2010Co-Authors: Stephen Minister, Jackson MurthaAbstract:This article explores the significance of the work of Emmanuel Levinas for the Philosophy of Religion. Levinas is well-known as the philosopher of the face of the other which provokes infinite responsibility. In his account of ethical responsibility to the other he regularly employs religious references, though rarely with extended explanations. This article considers a variety of interpretations of these religious references. Given the importance of Judaism for Levinas, we first examine whether Levinas should be understood as a philosopher or Jewish thinker, presenting arguments on both sides of this debate. We then investigate the relationship between ethics and Religion in Levinas’s work, including consideration of the Akedah and the problem of evil. We conclude with explorations of the relationship between reason and revelation and the question of how we ought to think about God. These reflections elucidate the contribution Levinas makes to the Philosophy of Religion.
Jim Willison - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ResearchGuides: Philosophy of Religion: Journals
2018Co-Authors: Jim WillisonAbstract:Philosophy of Religion is the branch of Philosophy that inquires into the nature of the divine, and includes topics such as: the problem of evil, religious experience, miracles, and arguments for or against the existence of God.
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ResearchGuides: Philosophy of Religion: Miracles
2018Co-Authors: Jim WillisonAbstract:Philosophy of Religion is the branch of Philosophy that inquires into the nature of the divine, and includes topics such as: the problem of evil, religious experience, miracles, and arguments for or against the existence of God.
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ResearchGuides: Philosophy of Religion: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, & Anthologies
2018Co-Authors: Jim WillisonAbstract:Philosophy of Religion is the branch of Philosophy that inquires into the nature of the divine, and includes topics such as: the problem of evil, religious experience, miracles, and arguments for or against the existence of God.
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ResearchGuides: Philosophy of Religion: Journals, Articles, & Databases
2018Co-Authors: Jim WillisonAbstract:Philosophy of Religion is the branch of Philosophy that inquires into the nature of the divine, and includes topics such as: the problem of evil, religious experience, miracles, and arguments for or against the existence of God.
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ResearchGuides: Philosophy of Religion: The Problem of Evil
2018Co-Authors: Jim WillisonAbstract:Philosophy of Religion is the branch of Philosophy that inquires into the nature of the divine, and includes topics such as: the problem of evil, religious experience, miracles, and arguments for or against the existence of God.
