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