Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of Religion [electronic resource] /
Carroll, Thomas D.author.
The commonly held view that Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is fideistic loses plausibility when contrasted with recent scholarship on Wittgenstein's corpus and biography. This book reevaluates the place of Wittgenstein in the philosophy of religion and charts a path forward for the subfield by advancing three themes.
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Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On Reading Wittgenstein on Religion; 1 Problems of Interpretive Authority in Wittgenstein's Corpus; 1.1 Sources for Wittgenstein and philosophy of religion; 1.1.1 Sources primarily concerned with phenomena of religions; 1.1.2 Private sources of remarks on religions; 1.1.3 Sources that are otherwise relevant to philosophy of religion; 1.2 Interpretive schemes and Wittgenstein's corpus; 2 Wittgenstein, Biography, and Religious Identity; 2.1 The uses of biography in philosophical study
2.2 Wittgenstein and religiosity2.3 The Tractatus , the mystical and Wittgenstein's ethic of perspicuity; 2.4 Perspicuity about Wittgenstein's religious identity; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 A History of Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Religion; 3.1 Philosophy of religion during the first half of the twentieth century; 3.2 Philosophy of religion influenced by Wittgenstein; 3.2.1 The influence of the Tractatus; 3.2.2 The influence of Wittgenstein's later philosophy; 3.3 Criticisms of Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion; 3.3.1 Alvin Plantinga and analytic philosophy of religion
3.3.2 Naturalist criticisms of Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion3.3.3 Criticism of Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion by scholars of Wittgenstein; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 The Traditions of Fideism; 4.1 The confusion around use of the term 'fideism'; 4.1.1 'Fideism' is commonly used pejoratively; 4.1.2 Scholarship on fideism is largely ahistorical; 4.1.3 The historical origins of 'fideism' are complex; 4.2 Popkin and Penelhum on 'skeptical fideism'; 4.3 A genealogy of 'fideism'; 4.3.1 The symbolo-fideism of Ménégoz and Sabatier; 4.3.2 'Fideism' in nineteenth century Catholic theology
4.4 Historical context and the traditions of fideism5 On 'Fideism' as an Interpretive Category; 5.1 The case of James; 5.2 The case of Kierkegaard; 5.3 The case of Wittgenstein; 6 Religions, Epistemic Isolation, and Social Trust; 6.1 The promise and the problem: Wittgenstein and contemporary philosophy of religion; 6.2 The social aspects of meaning; 6.3 Wittgenstein on intellectual distance and trust; 7 Wittgenstein's Ethic of Perspicuity and the Philosophy of Religion; 7.1 Perspicuity, clarity, and contemplation; 7.1.1 Wittgenstein and Price on clarity in philosophy
7.1.2 Mulhall and Phillips on the personal and the philosophical7.1.3 John Clayton and the clarification of defensible differences; 7.2 Wittgenstein and the ethics of philosophy of religion; 7.3 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The commonly held view that Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is fideistic loses plausibility when contrasted with recent scholarship on Wittgenstein's corpus and biography. This book reevaluates the place of Wittgenstein in the philosophy of religion and charts a path forward for the subfield by advancing three themes.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Religion—Philosophy.
Analysis (Philosophy).
Metaphysics.
Philosophy of Religion.
Analytic Philosophy.
Metaphysics.