Rainbow of Experiences, Critical Trust, and God

Rainbow of Experiences, Critical Trust, and God

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Kwan, Kai-man
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The question of whether religious experience can be trusted has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of religion in recent years. Kwan surveys this contemporary philosophical debate, provides in-depth analysis of the crucial issues, and offer arguments for an affirmative answer to the above question. Kwan first argues against traditional empiricist epistemologies and defends Swinburne's Principle of Credulity which holds that we should trust our experiences unless there are special considerations to the contrary. The Principle of Credulity is renamed the Principle of Critical Trust to highlight the need for balance between trust and criticism and is used as the foundation for a new approach to epistemology, the Critical Trust Approach (CTA), which maintains an emphasis on experience but attempts to break loose of the straitjacket of traditional empiricism by broadening the evidential base of experience. Kwan then widens his focus by looking at theistic experience in the contemporary multicultural context.
EAN 9781623564551
ISBN 1623564557
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date May 23, 2013
Pages 336
Language English
Country United States
Readership General
Authors Kwan, Kai-man
Series Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion