In this article, I argue that foundationalist reconstructions of religious experience lose on all
counts: First, philosophical defences of foundationalism are untenable. Second, the …

In this paper, I provide a novel approach to the issue of religious diversity: I reject classical
pluralist approaches to the issue, such as John Hick’s, and argue that their attempts to …

Interpreting Kuhn's Incommensurability-Thesis: Its Different Meanings and Epistemological
Consequences Kuhn's incommensurability-thesis is crucial for interpreting his views on the …

In this article, I argue that Barth resists the modern “turn to the subject” and that important
features of his approach can be explained as being motivated by this resistance. Under the …

In the following, I will provide a close reading of William James’ famous article ‘The Will to
Believe’1 (henceforth TWTB). I will identify two philosophical issues which have a prominent …

In this volume, the relationship between religion and contingency is investigated. Its historical
part comprises analyses of important philosophers’ interpretations of this relationship, viz. …

This quote is one of the most famous quotes in philosophy (of religion). At least, in the
German-speaking context, it is frequently used. It symbolizes a particular problem, namely that …

In Romans IP, Karl Barth breaks as radically as possible with the then dominant theological
movement in Germany, Liberal Theology2• The most salient feature of Romans II is its …

This paper argues that, historically, Christianity emerges out of Judaism by way of a
paradigm shift in Thomas Kuhn’s sense of the word and that this emergence has normative …

In this article, evidentialism is refuted by relying on William James’ article ‘The Will to Believe’.
After an introduction into the notion of ‘evidentialism’ and James’ attack on it (section 1), I …