Guy Bennett‐hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Bennett‐hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy |
| FAMILY NAME | Bennett‐hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER G B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New Models of Religious Understanding
In his 1966 Principles of Christian Theology, John Macquarrie described the contemporary state of philosophy of religion as ‘ruinous’. He was dissatisfied by the inability of the traditional rational arguments in favour of religious beliefs to establish their own conclusions convincingly—let alone engage productively with the foundational concepts underwriting the actual practice of the world's religions. Yet, with Freud, Macquarrie also saw that…
Divine Ineffability
Though largely neglected by philosophers, the concept of ineffability is integral to the Christian mystical tradition, and has been part of almost every philosophical discussion of religious experience since the early twentieth century. After a brief introduction, this article surveys the most important discussions of divine ineffability, observing that the literature presents two mutually reinforcing obstacles to a coherent account of the concep…
A Pragmatist Conception of Certainty
The ways in which Wittgenstein was directly influenced by William James (by his early psychological work as well his later philosophy) have been thoroughly explored and charted by Russell B. Goodman. In particular, Goodman has drawn attention to the pragmatist resonances of the Wittgensteinian notion of hinge propositions as developed and articulated in the posthumously edited and published work, On Certainty. This paper attempts to extend Goodma…
Divine Ineffability
Though largely neglected by philosophers, the concept of ineffability is integral to the Christian mystical tradition, and has been part of almost every philosophical discussion of religious experience since the early twentieth century. After a brief introduction, this article surveys the most important discussions of divine ineffability, observing that the literature presents two mutually reinforcing obstacles to a coherent account of the concep…
A Pragmatist Conception of Certainty
The ways in which Wittgenstein was directly influenced by William James (by his early psychological work as well his later philosophy) have been thoroughly explored and charted by Russell B. Goodman. In particular, Goodman has drawn attention to the pragmatist resonances of the Wittgensteinian notion of hinge propositions as developed and articulated in the posthumously edited and published work, On Certainty. This paper attempts to extend Goodma…
Divine Ineffability
Though largely neglected by philosophers, the concept of ineffability is integral to the Christian mystical tradition, and has been part of almost every philosophical discussion of religious experience since the early twentieth century. After a brief introduction, this article surveys the most important discussions of divine ineffability, observing that the literature presents two mutually reinforcing obstacles to a coherent account of the concep…
New Models of Religious Understanding
In his 1966 Principles of Christian Theology, John Macquarrie described the contemporary state of philosophy of religion as ‘ruinous’. He was dissatisfied by the inability of the traditional rational arguments in favour of religious beliefs to establish their own conclusions convincingly—let alone engage productively with the foundational concepts underwriting the actual practice of the world's religions. Yet, with Freud, Macquarrie also saw that…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Existentialism (2 works) · Faith (2 works) · Karl Barth and Christian Theology (2 works) · Pragmatism (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Augustinian Studies and Theology (1 work) · Certainty (1 work)