Contents
Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
1. Introduction: The truth-value of religious propositions . . . . . . 1
Part One: Religious Realism and Antirealism on The TruthValue of Religious Propositions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2. Religious realism on the truth-value of religious propositions. 19
3.Religious antirealism on the truth-value of religious propositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.Truth and experience as challenges for religious realism and
antirealism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Part Two: Hilary Putnam’s Pragmatic Pluralist Perspective
on Truth and Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.Putnam’s criticism of metaphysical realist and antirealist
notions of truth and experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
6.Putnam’s pragmatic pluralist perspective on truth . . . . . . . . . . 113
7. Putnam’s pragmatic pluralist perspective on experience. . . . . .139
8.Putnam’s pragmatic pluralist perspective on the face of
truth-value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Part Three: Towards A Pragmatic Pluralist Perspective on
The Truth-Value of Religious Propositions . . . . 181
9.Putnam’s Wittgenstein-inspired perspective on the truth-value
of religious propositions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
10.William James’s Varieties on the cognitive value of religious
experiences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
11.Pragmatic pluralism on the truth-value of propositions revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
12.Conclusion: Religious pragmatic pluralism on the truth-value
of religious propositions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Bibliography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Index of Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273