Master of Hallucination: A Pragmatist Epistemology and Exploration of Mystical Experience

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Master of Hallucination: A Pragmatist Epistemology and Exploration of Mystical Experience

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Mystical experience appears to have always been a feature of human consciousness, and occurs with an enormous variety of content, character, and context. A modern awareness of the variegated nature of mystical experience has led to particular types being almost automatically considered false, usually on somewhat dubious grounds. How might a sound epistemology of mystical experience be developed? Most philosophers who tackle this question attempt to shoehorn mystical experience into a relative...

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Masters

Date created

2011

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Barron, Daniel James

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5535

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philosophy / altered states of consciousness / mysticism / religion / evolution / pragmatism / epistemology

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