Epistemological value of Religious Experience: C. D. Broad Revisited

Document Type : Original Research

Author
Ghazaleh Hojjati
PhD student in Philosophy of Religion, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran.
10.30497/prr.2017.1907
Abstract
As William James, C. D. Broad attempted to approach the religious belief with an empirical view. Religious experiences, on his view, have epistemological value and they can be regarded as an evidence for the existence of God. Broad may be regarded among the first thinkers who attempt to argue for the existence of God on the basis of religious experience. His attempt followed by some philosophers such as Richard Swinburne, C. F. Davis and William Alston who discussed the religious experience from an epistemological point of view. Although Broad’s paper on “The Argument from Religious Experience” issued long time ago, it still seems that his argument in the paper is noteworthy. Considering the views from the defenders of the epistemic value of the religious experience and their responses to the critics, we can reform and strengthen the argument for the epistemological value of these experiences offered by C. D. Broad.
Keywords
Epistemological Value
Argument from Religious Experience
C. D. Broad
Richard Swinburne
C. F. Davis
William Alston
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Philosophy of Religion Research
Volume 14, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
November 2017
Pages 47-67