| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: On Reading Wittgenstein on Religion |
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1 Problems of Interpretive Authority in Wittgenstein's Corpus |
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1.1 Sources for Wittgenstein and philosophy of religion |
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14 | (19) |
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1.1.1 Sources primarily concerned with phenomena of religions |
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15 | (7) |
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1.1.2 Private sources of remarks on religions |
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22 | (5) |
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1.1.3 Sources that are otherwise relevant to philosophy of religion |
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27 | (6) |
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1.2 Interpretive schemes and Wittgenstein's corpus |
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33 | (8) |
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2 Wittgenstein, Biography, and Religious Identity |
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41 | (28) |
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2.1 The uses of biography in philosophical study |
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41 | (2) |
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2.2 Wittgenstein and religiosity |
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43 | (5) |
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2.3 The Tractatus, the mystical and Wittgenstein's ethic of perspicuity |
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48 | (6) |
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2.4 Perspicuity about Wittgenstein's religious identity |
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54 | (13) |
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67 | (2) |
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3 A History of Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Religion |
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69 | (32) |
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3.1 Philosophy of religion during the first half of the twentieth century |
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70 | (10) |
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3.2 Philosophy of religion influenced by Wittgenstein |
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80 | (11) |
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3.2.1 The influence of the Tractatus |
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80 | (3) |
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3.2.2 The influence of Wittgenstein's later philosophy |
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83 | (8) |
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3.3 Criticisms of Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion |
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91 | (9) |
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3.3.1 Alvin Plantinga and analytic philosophy of religion |
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91 | (2) |
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3.3.2 Naturalist criticisms of Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion |
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93 | (3) |
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3.3.3 Criticism of Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion by scholars of Wittgenstein |
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96 | (4) |
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100 | (1) |
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4 The Traditions of Fideism |
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101 | (22) |
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4.1 The confusion around use of the term `fideism' |
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102 | (7) |
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4.1.1 `Fideism' is commonly used pejoratively |
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102 | (5) |
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4.1.2 Scholarship on fideism is largely ahistorical |
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107 | (2) |
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4.1.3 The historical origins of `fideism' are complex |
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109 | (1) |
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4.2 Popkin and Penelhum on `skeptical fideism' |
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109 | (3) |
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4.3 A genealogy of `fideism' |
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112 | (9) |
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4.3.1 The symbolo-fideism of Menegoz and Sabatier |
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112 | (6) |
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4.3.2 `Fideism' in nineteenth century Catholic theology |
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118 | (3) |
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4.4 Historical context and the traditions of fideism |
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121 | (2) |
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5 On `Fideism' as an Interpretive Category |
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123 | (24) |
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125 | (9) |
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5.2 The case of Kierkegaard |
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134 | (5) |
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5.3 The case of Wittgenstein |
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139 | (8) |
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6 Religions, Epistemic Isolation, and Social Trust |
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147 | (24) |
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6.1 The promise and the problem: Wittgenstein and contemporary philosophy of religion |
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148 | (3) |
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6.2 The social aspects of meaning |
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151 | (6) |
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6.3 Wittgenstein on intellectual distance and trust |
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157 | (14) |
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7 Wittgenstein's Ethic of Perspicuity and the Philosophy of Religion |
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171 | (16) |
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7.1 Perspicuity, clarity, and contemplation |
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172 | (9) |
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7.1.1 Wittgenstein and Price on clarity in philosophy |
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172 | (2) |
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7.1.2 Mulhall and Phillips on the personal and the philosophical |
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174 | (3) |
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7.1.3 John Clayton and the clarification of defensible differences |
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177 | (4) |
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7.2 Wittgenstein and the ethics of philosophy of religion |
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181 | (2) |
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183 | (4) |
| Notes |
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187 | (8) |
| Bibliography |
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195 | (10) |
| Index |
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