PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

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religious experience 226–7, 363; appeals
to 267; criteria and their application
46–9; descriptions of 41–6;
evidentialargument from 230–1;
experts in 270; notions of 3;
structure/content 39–40
religious maturity 147–50
religious pluralism 4, 363; content of
67–8; human concepts 70–1, 70–4;
importance of (RPE) to 73–4;
Maximally Restrictive 70–1;
Mediumly Restrictive 71–2;
Minimally Restrictive 72–3;
natures/essences 74–7; negative
view 78–9; religion–relevant
consequences of 68–9
religious tradition 363
religious values: monotheistic
traditions 304–5; nonmonotheistic
traditions 303–4
restricted property universalism 75
robust foundationalism 350; religious
claims 350–1
Rowe, William 138–40, 142–3
Roweanism 161–4; succinct 151–2

saintliness 148
salvation 363
scientism 344–6
Second Way argument 191–2
self: as apparent/real 28–30, 32; as
enduring/transitory 6, 31–2, 33; as
omniscient 30–1, 32
self-authentication 271–2, 363;
descriptions 272–3; evidence about
what 273–4; experiential evidence
276–82; particular experiences/
universal claims 274;
phenomenologies that fit the claims
274–6; re-statement of argument
282–4; subject/content experience
277–82
self-change 189–90, 195
self-consciousness 70, 85, 113, 289,
290–2, 296
semantic logical necessity 363
Shankara 28–9, 53, 101, 103, 105, 107,
285
simplicity 113–14
sin/salvation 32, 56
Spinoza, Baruch 105, 307

substance dualism 243–4

substance theory 363; arguments

against dualism 262–3; Jain dualism

259–61

Sufficient Reason 182, 183, 209; crucial

premises 183; differences in

conclusions 183–4

syntactic logical necessity 363

teleological argument 208–9, 363–4;

statement of 209–10

Terrible Tiger hypothesis 228–30

Theravada Buddhism 4, 24, 54, 60, 268–

9, 294–5, 364; and Complexity View

257; described 31–2, 33; and

enlightenment experience 272–6;

and reincarnation/karma 26–8; and

ultimate reality 101, 109, 111–16

thick experience 215–16

thick/thin description 216

Third Way argument 192–4

transcendence 85

truth 337–8, 348–9

truth values xiii, 171–2

truth–claims 56–7

ultimate existence explanation 209

ultimate reality: non-94–6;

nonmonotheistic conceptions of

101–16

universalism 74–5

universe-time-together creation view

182

Upanishadic texts 103, 104, 105

valid argument 364

value by association 154

Vedas 104

Vsistadvaita (Qualified Non–Dualism)

101, 104

world-has-a-beginning strategy 182,

183

X argument 177

Y argument 178

Z argument 178