Putnam,Realizm ve dini inaç

Abstract

The article presents a descriptive as well as a critical assessment of Hilary Putnam's internal or pragmatic realism in conjunction with its implications on his recent approach to religious belief. It thus argues that the basic shortcomings of Putnam's realism stem from certain assumptions made to the effect that truth cannot be independent from our conceptual frames and therefore that metaphysical realism is incoherent. It is then argued that given that there are no a priori reasons for thinking that God's Eye view is unintelligible, a realistic conception of revelation can be defended. The article also provides a critical account of Putnam's view of religious belief which gives a priority of religious life rather than its cognitive aspect.