Religious epistemology
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Religious epistemology
Religious epistemology is a broad label for any approach to epistemological questions from a religious perspective, or attempts to understand the epistemological issues that come from religious belief. The questions which epistemologists may ask about any particular belief also apply to religious beliefs and propositions: are they rational, justified, warranted, reasonable, based on evidence and so on. Religious views also influence epistemological theories, such as in the case of Reformed epistemology.[1]
Reformed epistemology has developed in contemporary Christian religious epistemology, such as the work of Alvin Plantinga, William P. Alston, Nicholas Wolterstorff and Kelly James Clark,[2] as a critique of and alternative to the idea of "evidentialism" of the sort proposed by W. K. Clifford.[3][4] Alvin Plantinga, for instance, is critical of the evidentialist analysis of knowledge provided by Richard Feldman and Earl Conee.[5][6]
D. Z. Phillips takes this further and says that the argument of the reformed epistemologists goes further and challenges a view he dubs "foundationalism":
- The essence of the Reformed challenge is to accuse the foundationalist of claiming to have a criterion of rationality which, in fact, he does not possess. By means of this alleged criterion the foundationalist claims to discern which epistemic practices are rational and which are not. Among those practices which are not rational, he claims, are those of religion.[7]
References
- ^ Religious Epistemology, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- ^ Kelly James Clark (March 1990). Return to reason: a critique of Enlightenment evidentialism and defense of reason and belief in God. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8028-0456-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=GXP5RdOmNt0C&pg=PA8. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
- ^ Nicholas Wolterstorff (1995). Divine discourse: philosophical reflections on the claim that God speaks. Cambridge University Press. p. 13–16. ISBN 978-0-521-47557-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=FVydaBw6g3sC&pg=PA14. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
- ^ René van Woudenberg, "Reformed Epistemology", chapter 3 in Paul Copan and Chad Meister (ed.) Philosophy of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Issues, Blackwell, ISBN 1-4051-3990-8
- ^ Feldman, Richard; Earl Conee (1985). "Evidentialism". Philosophical Studies 48 (1): 15–34. doi:10.1007/BF00372404. http://www.springerlink.com/content/nx3162564v154127/.
- ^ Plantinga, Alvin (1993). Warrant and Proper Function. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 185–93. ISBN 0-19-507864-0.
- ^ Phillips, D. Z. (1988). Faith after Foundationalism. Routledge. pp. 24. ISBN 0-415-00333-4.
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