ISBN : 9780198798705
Recent decades have seen a fertile period of theorizing within mainstream epistemology which has led to new insights from social epistemology and formal epistemology about defeat, testimony, a priority, probability, and the nature of evidence. However, there has been surprisingly little infiltration of these new ideas into philosophy of religion and the epistemology of religious belief. Knowledge, Belief, and God incorporates these myriad new developments in mainstream epistemology, and extends these developments to questions and arguments in religious epistemology. The investigations proposed in this volume offer substantial new life, breadth, and sophistication to issues in the philosophy of religion and analytic theology. They pose original questions and shed new light on long-standing issues in religious epistemology; and these developments will in turn generate contributions to epistemology itself, since religious belief provides a vital testing ground for recent epistemo
Matthew A. Benton, John Hawthorne, and Dani Rabinowitz: Introduction; I. Historical; 1 Charity Anderson: Hume, Defeat, and Miracle Reports; 2 Richard Cross: Testimony, Error, and Reasonable Belief in Medieval Religious Epistemology; 3 Billy Dunaway: Duns Scotus' Epistemic Argument against Divine Illumination; 4 Dani Rabinowitz: Knowledge and the Cathartic Value of Repentance; II. Formal; 5 Isaac Choi: Infinite Cardinalities, Measuring Knowledge, and Probabilities in Fine-Tuning Arguments; 6 Hans Halvorson: A Theological Critique of the Fine-Tuning Argument; 7 John Hawthorne and Yoaav Isaacs: Fine-Tuning Fine-Tuning; 8 Roger White: Reasoning with Plenitude; III. Social; 9 Max Baker-Hytch: Testimony Amidst Diversity; 10 Rachel Elizabeth Fraser: Testimonial Pessimism; 11 Jennifer Lackey: Experts and Peer Disagreement; 12 Paulina Sliwa: Know How and Acts of Faith; IV. Rational; 13 Matthew A. Benton: Pragmatic Encroachment and Theistic Knowledge; 14 Keith DeRose: Delusions of Knowledge Concerning God's Existence: A Skeptical Look at Religious Experience; 15 Margot Strohminger and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri: Moderate Modal Skepticism; 16 Richard Swinburne: Phenomenal Conservatism and Religious Experience
