Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of Religion

The commonly held view that Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is fideistic loses plausibility when contrasted with recent scholarship on Wittgenstein's corpus and biography. This book reevaluates the place of Wittgenstein in the philosophy of religion and charts a path forward for the subfield by advancing three themes.

Autorentext
Thomas D. Carroll is Professor of Philosophy at Xing Wei College in Shanghai, China.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Introduction: Reading Wittgenstein on Religion 1. Problems of Interpretive Authority in Wittgenstein's Corpus 2. Wittgenstein, Biography, and Religious Identity 3. A History of Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Religion 4. The Traditions of Fideism 5. On 'Fideism' as an Interpretive Category 6. Religions, Epistemic Isolation, and Social Trust 7. Wittgenstein's Ethic of Perspicuity and the Philosophy of Religion Bibliography Index