Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of ReligionThe 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. |
Contents
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1 Problems of Interpretive Authority in Wittgensteins Corpus | 13 |
2 Wittgenstein Biography and Religious Identity | 41 |
3 A History of Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Religion | 69 |
4 The Traditions of Fideism | 101 |
5 On Fideism as an Interpretive Category | 123 |
6 Religions Epistemic Isolation and Social Trust | 147 |
7 Wittgensteins Ethic of Perspicuity and the Philosophy of Religion | 171 |
Notes | 187 |
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