A metaphysics of spiritual experience
Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion February 10, 2023 F. Ellis
Abstract A discussion of the metaphysics of spiritual experience requires that we are clear about the nature of metaphysics, and I take as my starting point the ‘transcendent metaphysics’ described and supposedly eliminated by A. J. Ayer. Most analytic philosophers agree with Ayer (and Kant) that transcendent metaphysics in the relevant sense is deeply problematic, and they associate it with...