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The Possibility of Theistic Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1998

J. WILLIAM FORGIE
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-3090, U.S.A.

Abstract

In a recent issue of Religious Studies Kevin Corcoran has criticized my arguments for the impossibility of theistic experience (i.e. an experience which is phenomenologically of God). Building on, and amending, criticisms already levelled against my views by Nelson Pike (in the latter's Mystic Union), Corcoran argues that my views are based on an account of what it is for an experience to be ‘phenomenologically of’ an individual (or kind of thing) which leads to ‘wildly implausible’ results. I here try to show that Corcoran's criticisms are based on a misunderstanding of my views.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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