ABSTRACT
In this paper I wish to explore some of the similarities and differences between the philosophical approach to religion that is characteristic of Wittgenstein (WR), as this approach has been identified and developed by some of his interpreters, and what has come to be called ‘reformed’ epistemology (RE). The exploration is confined to epistemological and metaphysical issues1
SOME SIMILARITIES
Call ‘externalism’ the view that to be rationally tenable religious belief requires vindication by considerations which are non-religious. Both RE and WR2 deny such externalism. In the case of RE the denial of externalism is an epistemological claim arising out of a critique of classical foundationalism, while in the case of WR the denial of externalism is more principled and more radical, being maintained on conceptual or ‘grammatical’ grounds.
