- Chapter 1: Introduction Preface xiii
- PART I: PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
- philosophy of religion? Chapter 2: What is philosophy? What is religion? What is
- Philosophy
- Objectivity
- Religion
- Philosophy of religion
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- Chapter 3: What sorts of religion are there?
- Monotheism
- Advaita Vedanta
- Jainism
- Buddhism
- Comparison
- The criteria applied
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- Chapter 4: What sorts of religious experience are there?
- Structure and content
- Descriptions
- Criteria and their application
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- religious traditions Chapter 5: The importance of doctrine and the distinctness of
- Doctrine
- “Truth-claims”
- Identity
- Diversity
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- Chapter 6: Religious pluralism
- Religious plurality and religious pluralism
- The content of religious pluralism
- Some religion-relevant consequences of RP
- A critical discussion of RP: Part one
- A critical discussion of RP: Part two
- A critical discussion of RP: Part three
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- REALITY PART II: RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS OF ULTIMATE
- Chapter 7: Monotheistic conceptions of ultimate reality
- Generic philosophical monotheism
- Greek monotheism
- Semitic monotheism
- Hindu monotheism
- Monotheisms and atheisms
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- reality Chapter 8: Nonmonotheistic conceptions of ultimate
- Advaita Vedanta Hinduism
- Jainism and Buddhism
- Conclusion
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS PART III: ARGUMENTS CONCERNING
- Chapter 9: Arguments against monotheism
- Three questions
- The problem of evil
- Failed escapes
- The consistency issue
- The evidential issue
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- Chapter 10: Arguments for monotheism
- Proof
- Logical necessity
- Argument Purely conceptual proofs and the Ontological
- sufficient reason Empirical proofs, argument strategies, and principles of
- Argument Purely conceptual proofs and the Ontological
- Arguments by Thomas Aquinas
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- Chapter 11: Monotheism and religious experience
- Phenomenologically thick experiences
- Experience as direct evidence
- A principle of experiential evidence
- Being evidence versus providing evidence
- The evidential argument from religious experience
- The principle of experiential evidence applied
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS PART IV: ARGUMENTS CONCERNING
- conceptions (1) Chapter 12: Arguments concerning nonmonotheistic
- Appeals to argument and appeals to experience
- Advaita Vedanta
- Jainism and Buddhism on persons
- Identity
- Personal identity
- Bundle theory
- Copiers and annihilators
- Substance theory
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- conceptions (2) Chapter 13: Arguments concerning nonmonotheistic
- Appeals to enlightenment experience
- Self-authentication
- Advaita appeal to enlightenment experience
- Jain-type appeals to experience
- Buddhist-type appeals to experience
- The contrasting arguments
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- REASON PART V: RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND
- Chapter 14: Religion and morality
- Religious values and moral values
- Deterministic views
- Compatibilism and incompatibilism
- The Principle of Alternative Possibilities
- Divine foreknowledge and human freedom
- Conclusion
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- Chapter 15: Faith and reason CONTENTS xi
- Faith
- Knowledge
- Scientism
- Propositions
- The epistemic status of religious belief
- Robust foundationalism
- Confirmationism and falsificationism
- Ways of being falsified
- Theistic arguments and explanatory power
- Questions for reflection
- Annotated reading
- Glossary
- religion Selected great figures in the history of philosophy of
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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