Can Religious Experience Provide Justification for the Belief in God? The Debate in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4079548
AutoresKai‐man Kwan, Kai Man Kwan (0000-0003-3437-8645, Hong Kong Baptist University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen1
Número6
Páginas640-661
Fecha de publicación2006-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1747-9991.2006.00037.x
OpenAlexW2002498933
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas22

In recent analytic philosophy of religion, one hotly debated topic is the veridicality of religious experience. In this paper, I briefly trace how the argument from religious experience comes into prominence in the twentieth century. This is due to the able defense of this argument by Richard Swinburne, William Alston, and Jerome Gellman among others. I explain the argument's intuitive force and why the stock objections to religious experience are not entirely convincing. I expound Swinburne's approach and his application of the Principle of Credulity to religious experience. Then I critically examine four major objections to Swinburne. I conclude that the argument from religious experiences is not likely to be conclusive but it should not be dismissed either

Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · Existence of God · Philosophy of religion · Religious belief · Religious experience · Theism · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Theology and Philosophy of Evil