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Agnostic
Alethic Truth
Anthropic Coincidences
Author_Andrew Collier
Author_Douglas V. Porpora
Author_Margaret S. Archer
Blue Giants
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Category=JHB
critical
Critical Realist
Critical Realist Conception
Dense
epistemic
Epistemic Fallacy
epistemic relativity
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experience
fallacy
Good Life
Hayden Planetarium
hermeneutics of suspicion
Inter-faith Marriages
Inter-religious Debate
Inter-religious Dialogue
Interreligious Dialogue
judgemental
Judgemental Rationalism
justification of religious belief
love
Modern USA
Natural Theology
ontological intransitivity
philosophy of religion
Putative Revelation
rationality
realism
Red Dwarfs
religious
Rival Truth Claims
secularisation theory
social emancipation
Spiritual Turn
Teleological Phenomena
unconditional
Vice Versa
Violating
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415336178
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Apr 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Atheism as a belief does not have to present intellectual credentials within academia. Yet to hold beliefs means giving reasons for doing so, ones which may be found wanting. Instead, atheism is the automatic default setting within the academic world.
Conversely, religious belief confronts a double standard. Religious believers are not permitted to make truth claims but are instead forced to present their beliefs as part of one language game amongst many. Religious truth claims are expected to satisfy empiricist criteria of evidence but when they fail, as they must, religious belief becomes subject to the hermeneutics of suspicion.
This book explores religious experience as a justifiable reason for religious belief. It uniquely demonstrates that the three pillars of critical realism - ontological intransitivity, epistemic relativity and judgemental rationality - can be applied to religion as to any other beliefs or theories.
The three authors are critical realists by philosophical position. They seek to establish a level playing field between religion and secular ideas, which has not existed in the academic world for some generations, in order for reasoned debate to be conducted.
Margaret S Archer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. Her previous books include Culture and Agency, Realist Social Theory, Being Human and Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation.
Andrew Collier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton and has previously lectured at Warwick, Sussex and Bangor Universities. His recent publications include Being and Worth, which extends realism to ethics, and Christianity and Marxism, which aims to reconcile these two world views.
