Religion and Radical Empiricism Contributor(s): Frankenberry, Nancy K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0887064086 ISBN-13: 9780887064081 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1987 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Religious - Religion |
Dewey: 200.1 |
LCCN: 86016558 |
Lexile Measure: 1540 |
Series: Suny Series in Religious Studies |
Physical Information: 226 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |