Philosophy and the Grammar of Religious Belief [Paperback]

The papers in this collection are concerned with the epistemology of religious belief. The contributors disagree on such issues as whether philosophers have a role to play in determining the reasonableness or intelligibility of religious beliefs, or whether philosophy properly understood is a descriptive task. But all the papers are informed by the belief that philosophical discussion should proceed by giving attention to the character of the religious beliefs and practices under consideration.Contributors - Preface - Acknowledgements - At the Mercy of Method; D.Z.Phillips - Taking the Curse off Language Games: A Realist Account of Doxastic Practices; W.P.Alston - The Squirrel does not Infer by Induction: Wittgenstein and the Natural History of Religion; J.Churchill - Anselm and Phillips on Religious Realism; S.T.Davis - Religion and 'Really Believing': Belief and the Real; M.J.Ferreira - Tradition, Authority and the Hiddenness of God; G.Moore - Can Anything be beyond Human Understanding?; K.Nielsen - Violations of Nature and Conditions of Sense; A.Palmer - Asking Too Many Questions; P.Winch - Religion and Wittgenstein's Legacy: Beyond Fideism and Language Games; R.H.Bell - Putting Two and Two Together: Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and the Point of View for Their Work as Authors; J.Conant - Plantinga and the Rationality of Religious Belief; G.Gutting - Can a Purely Grammatical Inquiry be Religiously Persuasive?; J.H.Whittaker - Voices in Discussion; D.Z.Phillips - Index