Natural Knowledge: An Analysis of Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology in Light of Contemporary Cognitive Science of Religion
The foundation of Alvin Plantinga's reformed epistemology is the idea that beliefs which are naturally, non-inferentially and immediately produced by a cognitive faculty are properly basic. A properly basic belief is one that ought to be held as true, even if there is no evidence or argument to...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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e-Rhizome
Year: 2020, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-52 |
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| Summary: | The foundation of Alvin Plantinga's reformed epistemology is the idea that beliefs which are naturally, non-inferentially and immediately produced by a cognitive faculty are properly basic. A properly basic belief is one that ought to be held as true, even if there is no evidence or argument to confirm it. Such a belief should only be rejected once sufficient evidence or a sound argument can be found to disprove it. Plantinga's most important claim is that belief in God is one such belief, produced by a cognitive faculty which he calls the sensus divinitatis. In this paper I will first examine three major accounts of the origin of religious beliefs... |
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| ISSN: | 2571-242X |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5507/rh.2020.003 |