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Via Transformativa: Reading Descartes' Meditations as a Mystical TextIn G. Anthony Bruno & Justin Vlasits (eds.), Transformation and the History of Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 133-154. 2023.In this paper we argue that to adequately capture the complicated relationship between Descartes' work and late medieval thought, philosophers need to think not only about his ideas but also about his presentation and choice of genre. Reading the Meditations as a mere discursive treatise containing a progressive and consistent set of arguments intended to establish a particular philosophical position fails to appreciate the eponymous genre that Descartes explicitly chose to employ in writing the…Read more
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Religious Experience without Belief? Toward an Imaginative Account of Religious EngagementIn Thomas Hardtke, Ulrich Schmiedel & Tobias Tan (eds.), Religious Experience Revisited: Expressing the Inexpressible?. pp. 73-88. 2016.It is commonly supposed that a certain kind of belief is necessary for religious experience. Yet it is not clear that this must be so. In this article, I defend the possibility that a subject could have a genuine emotional religious experience without thereby necessarily believing that the purported object of her experience corresponds to reality and/or is the cause of her experience. Imaginative engagement, I argue, may evoke emotional religious experiences that may be said to be both genuine a…Read more
Amber L. Griffioen
Duke Kunshan University
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Duke Kunshan UniversityVisiting Associate Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Religion |
Value Theory |
History of Western Philosophy |