Recent decades have seen a fertile period of theorizing within mainstream epistemology which has had a dramatic impact on how epistemology is done. Investigations into contextualist and pragmatic dimensions of knowledge suggest radically new ways of meeting skeptical challenges and of understanding the relation between the epistemological and practical environment. New insights from social epistemology and formal epistemology about defeat, testimony, a priority, probability, and the nature of evidence all have a potentially revolutionary effect on how we understand our epistemological place in the world. Religion is the place where such rethinking can potentially have its deepest impact and importance. Yet 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 epistemological ideas.
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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.
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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
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an overall very high standard of ... contributions ... a fascinating field of discussion beyond the familiar or even well-trodden paths of the continentental tradition and reformed epistemology.
Ground-breaking application of new work in epistemology to religious topics Shows how philosophy of religion and epistemology can be mutually illuminating Aims to set the agenda for religious epistemology for the foreseeable future
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Matthew A. Benton is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University. Prior to that he held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Oxford. He earned his PhD in philosophy from Rutgers University. John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, and formerly Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Dani Rabinowitz earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Oxford; he then held a Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville College, Oxford. He is currently a trainee solicitor with Clifford Chance LLP.
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Ground-breaking application of new work in epistemology to religious topics Shows how philosophy of religion and epistemology can be mutually illuminating Aims to set the agenda for religious epistemology for the foreseeable future
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ISBN
9780198798705
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
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702 gr
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241 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
356

Biographical note

Matthew A. Benton is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University. Prior to that he held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Oxford. He earned his PhD in philosophy from Rutgers University. John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, and formerly Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Dani Rabinowitz earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Oxford; he then held a Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville College, Oxford. He is currently a trainee solicitor with Clifford Chance LLP.