religious experiences challenges
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- Challenges to religious experience
- Caroline Frank Davis
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- logical inconsistency or incoherence within the subjects descriptions
- inconsistency between the subjects actual behavior and the behavior one would expect if hey had had the claimed experience
- unreliability of the person
- unreliability of memory
- the person misunderstands the experience
- subject related
- such things as dreams, visions and hallucinations are generally regarded as unreliable
- conflicting claims between different religious experiences
- doubtful state of the person at the time they had the religious experience
- object related
- the entities in the experience are improbable
- other people present did not perceive anything
- description related
- Richard Dawkins
- Richard Dawkins in ‘The God Delusion’ claimed that there is no such thing as a religious experience – they were just expressions of a person’s psychological needs
- Persinger- science
- religious experiences are neurological
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- religious experiences are neurological
- Freud
- he said that religious experiences are because of sexually repressed people
- swinburne
- he tried to defend the religious experience by saying that there are two terms that should be met
- principle of credulity
- we must accept what appears to be the case unless we have evidence to the country
- principle of testimony
- unless we have positive evidense that someone would be mis remembering then it has to be taken as truth
- principle of credulity
- he tried to defend the religious experience by saying that there are two terms that should be met
- Vienna circle
- group of philosopher
- we can judge religious experiences of two basis
- analytical data
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- we can judge religious experiences of two basis
- group of philosopher
- Caroline Frank Davis
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