Knowledge, belief, and God : new insights in religious epistemology / edited by Matthew A. Benton, John Hawthorne and Dani Rabinowitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benton, Matthew A., editor.

Hawthorne, John (John P.), editor.

Rabinowitz, Dani, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)--History.

Knowledge, Theory of (Religion).

Philosophical theology.

Theism.

Teleology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

New insights in religious epistemology

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Epistemology has flourished in this millennium, with new ideas and approaches of many kinds: 'Knowledge, Belief, and God' shows how these developments can illuminate the philosophy of religion and analytic theology. And philosophy of religion is shown to be a valuable testing-ground for epistemology.

Contents:

Cover; Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; References; PART I: Historical; 1: Hume, Defeat, and Miracle Reports; 1.1 Humes Argument; 1.1.1 Evaluation of miracle reports; 1.1.2 Track record defeat; 1.1.3 Dismissible miracle reports; 1.2 The Role of Unlikelihood; 1.3 An Alternative Picture of Defeat; 1.3.1 Unreasonable knowledge and trusting testimony; 1.3.2 E = K and dismissing testimony; References; 2: Testimony, Error, and Reasonable Belief in Medieval Religious Epistemology.

2.1 Thomas Aquinas; 2.1.1 Epistemology, cognitive theory, and error; 2.1.2 Christian faith; 2.2 Duns Scotus; 2.2.1 Against scepticism; 2.2.2 Christian faith; References; 3: Duns Scotus Epistemic Argument against Divine Illumination; 3.1 Preliminaries; 3.2 Sensation, Cognition, and Error; 3.2.1 Background: cognition and judgment; 3.2.2 Why illumination?; 3.3 Scotuss Epistemic Argument; 3.3.1 Logical structure; 3.3.2 Anti-risk epistemology; 3.3.3 Risk in abstraction; 3.3.4 The epistemic argument, explained; 3.4 A Closer Look; 3.4.1 Pasnau on mutability in objects and exemplars.

3.4.2 Adams on the mutability of the soul; l3.5 Conclusion: Refining Safety; 3.5.1 Some analogies; 3.5.2 Safety and process manipulation; References; 4: Knowledge and the Cathartic Value of Repentance; 4.1; 4.2; 4.3; 4.4; 4.5; References; PART II: Formal; 5: Infinite Cardinalities, Measuring Knowledge, and Probabilities in Fine-Tuning Arguments; 5.1 Measuring Knowledge; 5.1.1 The correspondence principle and its consequences; 5.1.2 The subset principle; 5.1.3 Non-subset comparisons; 5.2 Fine-Tuning and Coarse-Tuning; References; 6: A Theological Critique of the Fine-Tuning Argument.

6.1 Preliminaries6.2 Fine-Tuning of Initial Conditions; 6.3 Objective Chances Screen Off Gods Existence; 6.4 Can God Override the Chances?; 6.5 Fine-Tuning of Constants; 6.6 Fine-Tuning of Laws; 6.7 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 7: Fine-Tuning Fine-Tuning; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Probabilistic Foundations; 7.3 Terminological Clarifications; 7.3.1 Parameter; 7.3.2 Measure on a parameter; 7.3.3 Physically respectable measure on a parameter; 7.4 Probability and Explanation; 7.5 The Core Argument; 7.6 Narrow Strategy; 7.6.1 Objection one: the God of tungsten.

7.6.2 Objection two: carbon-based life and other forms of life7.6.3 Objection three: anthropic objections; 7.6.4 Objection four: dismissive priors; 7.6.5 Objection five: questioning theistic likelihoods; 7.6.5.1 A sharp alternative; 7.6.5.2 An Unsharp Alternative; 7.6.6 Objection six: back to tungsten; 7.6.7 Objection seven: spinozistic sensibilities; 7.7 Broad Strategy; 7.7.1 First sub-strategy: additional evidence; 7.7.2 Second sub-strategy: challenging the package; 7.7.3 General remarks about the two sub-strategies; 7.8 Concluding Remarks.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-251960-3

0-19-184846-8

0-19-251959-X