PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

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  • 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





    • 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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