Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology
Matthew A. Benton, John Hawthorne, and Dani Rabinowitz
Abstract
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 ... More
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. The present volume 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.
Keywords:
epistemology of religion,
social epistemology,
formal epistemology,
philosophy of religion,
knowledge,
analytic theology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198798705 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2018 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198798705.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Matthew A. Benton, editor
Seattle Pacific University
John Hawthorne, editor
University of Southern California
Dani Rabinowitz, editor
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