Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Experience, Justification, and Theism
The Problem of Justification
Justifications in the Philosophy of Religion
The Problem of Theism
The Problem of Appeals to Experience
2. Shaking the Foundations of Empiricism
David Hume and Classical Empiricism
A.J. Ayer and Logical Positivism
Linguistic Empiricism
Neopragmatic American Empiricism
3. Radical Empiricism in Religious Perspective
William James and Radical Empiricism
Perceptual Experience and the Reinstatement of the Vague
Religious Experience and the "More"
Pure Experience and Affectional Facts
John Dewey and the Religious Dimension of Experience
4. Radical Empiricism: A Theistic Interpretation
Henry Nelson Wieman: Empirical Theism and Naturalism
Bernard Meland: Empirical Realism and Lived Experience
Bernard Loomer: An Aesthetic Order of Relations
5. Radical Empiricism in Metaphysical Perspective
Whitehead's Doctrine of Causal Efficacy
The Buddhist Doctrine of Pratityasamutpada and Sunyata
Whitehead's Critique of Substantialism and Sensationalism
Felt Qualities in a World of Process
Epilogue
Notes
Index