Religious Epistemology: Naturalizing a Point of View
I construct and describe an epistemology for the religious – a naturalized epistemology – based on recent work in epistemics. Two points of view exemplary of religious thought are analyzed (Wisdom's and work taken from Kierkegaard), and the normative/descriptive distinction in epistemology util...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2001
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Heythrop journal
Year: 2001, Volume: 42, Issue: 4, Pages: 480-488 |
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Summary: | I construct and describe an epistemology for the religious – a naturalized epistemology – based on recent work in epistemics. Two points of view exemplary of religious thought are analyzed (Wisdom's and work taken from Kierkegaard), and the normative/descriptive distinction in epistemology utilized to bolster the contention that the religious requires a less normative, more descriptive concomitant epistemology. I conclude that our reluctance to grapple with difficult ontological questions is directly related to the standard normative epistemology of the Anglo-American analytic tradition, and I also conclude that tradition is of little use to us in attempting to develop an epistemology of the religious. |
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ISSN: | 1468-2265 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Heythrop journal
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2265.00175 |