Wittgenstein and the Epistemology of Religion

Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

List of Abbreviations of Wittgenstein’s Works

List of Tables

Introduction: Removing Misconceptions

Nuno Venturinha and Duncan Pritchard

Part I Beyond Cognitivism and Non-Cognitivism

1 Wittgenstein on Religious Faith and Beauty

Hanne Appelqvist

2 No Gaseous Vertebrates: Wittgenstein’s ‘Third Way’

Genia Schönbaumsfeld

Part II From Fideism to Quasi-Fideism

3 Was Wittgenstein a Fideist?

Gordon Graham

4 ‘Undermining Reason’: Logic, Exemplarity and Religious Belief

Edward Guetti

5 The Ghost of the Tractatus: Fideism, Scepticism and ‘Hinge’ Epistemology

Michael Williams

6 Honest Doubt: Quasi-Fideism and Epistemic Vertigo

Duncan Pritchard

Part III Anthropological and Ethnological Approaches

7 Wittgenstein on Religion as a Form of Life: From a ‘Jamesian Type’ to Remarks on Frazer

Mauro Engelmann and Juliet Floyd

8 Understanding Other Languages, Understanding (Other) Religion

Alois Pichler

9 Shall We Dance? A Non-Intellectualist Approach to Human Practices

Julia Tanney

Part IV Context over Scientism

10 Wittgenstein on Religion

Paul Horwich

11 The Concept of Belief in Comparative Religious Perspective

Thomas D. Carroll

12 On Certainty and Religion: A Prolegomenon

Nuno Venturinha

Part V Evidentialism and Non-Evidentialism off the Fence

13Epistemology and Freedom of Religion: Locke and Wittgenstein

Gorazd Andrejč

14 Wittgenstein and the ABCs of Religious Epistemics

Guy Axtell

Index