RT Book
T1 The many faces of religious truth: Hilary Putnam's pragmatic pluralism on religion
T2 Studies in philosophical theology
JF Studies in philosophical theology
A1 Brunsveld, Niek 1981-
LA English
PP Leuven Paris Bristol, CT
PB Peeters
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/877428786
AB Religious statements can be true or false, and are not merely arbitrary or personally meaningful. That is the core thesis of this work in pragmatist philosophy of religion. Other contemporary approaches are deficient, as they have problematic ways of understanding truth and experience. The argument in this study draws on Hilary Putnam's work in such fields as ethics, epistemology, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. Influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, however, Putnam doesn't fully acknowledge how religious statements, similar to other statements, depend on an interaction of our language and the world. This would make religious truth a matter of convention. Drawing on another source of inspiration for Putnam, William James, Niek Brunsveld shows how religious claims can have truth value
CN B945.P874
SN 9789042933774
K1 Putnam, Hilary
K1 Religion : Philosophy
K1 Truth : Religious aspects