Reasonable faith and reasonable fideism
What is faith? And what makes faith reasonable, when it is so? I first defend approaching the question of faith and its reasonableness by starting from faith in the religious context. Next, I develop a ‘venture’ theory of a specific kind of faith of which religious - and specifically Christian - pra...
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Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2023
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Religious studies
Έτος: 2023, Τόμος: 59, Τεύχος: 3, Σελίδες: 394-409 |
Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
epistemological externalism
B Faith B Fideism |
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Σύνοψη: | What is faith? And what makes faith reasonable, when it is so? I first defend approaching the question of faith and its reasonableness by starting from faith in the religious context. Next, I develop a ‘venture’ theory of a specific kind of faith of which religious - and specifically Christian - practical commitment to a whole worldview may be taken methodologically as a paradigm case. Then I consider the conditions under which faith-commitment of this general type may be reasonable. I suggest that faith-ventures of this kind are morally permissible only when they are made reasonably, with epistemic integrity. I consider the role an appeal to epistemic externalism may have in defending the epistemic integrity of venturing beyond (though not against) the available evidence. I advance a moderate fideist thesis (inspired by William James's ‘justification of faith’), and consider the debate between Jamesian fideists and evidentialists for whom epistemic integrity requires commitment to be made to truth-claims only to the extent supported by evidence for their truth. |
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ISSN: | 1469-901X |
Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412522000282 |