Cheaper than a Corvette: The Relevance of Phenomenology for Contemporary Philosophy of Religion
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DOI: 10.1007/s11841-017-0586-9
Abstract: Contemporary phenomenology has often been critiqued as having crossed into the domain of confessional theology. Though I reject this characterization, I do think it is important to consider how best to understand the distinction between… read more here.
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The good, the true and the beautiful: imagining an ethico-political future for the philosophy of religion
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DOI: 10.1057/s41599-018-0180-y
Abstract: This article argues that the future of philosophy of religion is ethical and political. Much of the current sense of dissatisfaction felt by both critics and practitioners of philosophy of religion can be traced to… read more here.
Keywords: good true; philosophy; true beautiful; future philosophy ... See more keywords
Thought Experiments in Philosophy of Religion: The Virtues of Phenomenological Realism and Values
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DOI: 10.1515/opth-2017-0013
Abstract: Abstract We present a criterion for the use of thought experiments as a guide to possibilia that bear on important arguments in philosophy of religion. We propose that the more successful thought experiments are closer… read more here.
Keywords: realism values; thought experiments; phenomenological realism; philosophy ... See more keywords
Science as a Vocation, Philosophy as a Religion
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DOI: 10.6092/issn.1971-8853/8436
Abstract: When Max Weber delivered his “Science as a Vocation” lecture in 1917 it was to an audience of students facing war and political conflict, and shaped by its membership of activist youth groups whose ideologies… read more here.
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