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A Comparative Doxastic-Practice Epistemology of Religious Experience

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by Mark Owen Webb

    • Author

      Mark Owen Webb

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Springer International Publishing AG

    • Published

      August 2014

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      A Comparative Doxastic-Practice Epistemology of Religious Experience

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      This book takes a theoretical enterprise in Christian philosophy of religion and applies it to Buddhism, thus defending Buddhism and presenting it favorably in comparison. Chapters explore how the claims of both Christianity and Theravada Buddhism rest on people's experiences, so the question as to which claimants to religious knowledge are right rests on the evidential value of those experiences. The book examines mysticism and ways to understand what goes on in religious experiences, helping us to understand whether it is good grounds for religious belief. The author argues that religious language in both Christian and Buddhist traditions is intelligible as factual discourse, and so reports of mystical experience are true or false. The book contends that those experiences can be fruitfully thought of as perceptual in kind and that they are therefore good prima facie grounds for religious belief, in the absence of defeating conditions. The work goes on to explore Christian and Buddhist testimony and how the likelihood of self-deception, self-delusion, imaginative elaboration and the like constitutes a defeating condition.
      It is shown that this defeater has less scope for operation in the Buddhist case than in the Christian case, and therefore Theravada Buddhism is better grounded. This work will appeal to students and scholars of philosophy and philosophy of religion, and those interested in the study of religious experience.

      Specification

      • Author

        Mark Owen Webb

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Springer International Publishing AG

      • Published

        August 2014

      • Edition

        2015 ed.

      • Weight

        123g

      • Page Count

        76

      • Dimensions

        156 x 234 x 5 mm

      • ISBN

        9783319094557

      • ISBN-10

        3319094556

      • Eden Code

        4304234

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      • Author/Creator: Mark Owen Webb

      • ISBN: 9783319094557

      • Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

      • Release Date: August 2014

      • Weight: 123g

      • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 5 mm

      • Eden Code: 4304234


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