Warranted religion: answering objections to Alvin Plantinga's epistemology
AbstractAlvin Plantinga over the decades has developed a particular theory of warrant that would allow certain beliefs to be warranted, even if one lacked propositional arguments or evidence for them. One such belief that Plantinga focuses on is belief in God. There have been, however, numerous obje...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2015]
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Religious studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 51, Issue: 4, Pages: 477-495 |
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Plantinga, Alvin 1932-
/ Epistemologische Überzeugung
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
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| Summary: | AbstractAlvin Plantinga over the decades has developed a particular theory of warrant that would allow certain beliefs to be warranted, even if one lacked propositional arguments or evidence for them. One such belief that Plantinga focuses on is belief in God. There have been, however, numerous objections both to Plantinga's theory of warrant and to the religious application that he makes of it. In this article I address an objection from both of these categories. I first tackle an objection that attempts to show that proper function isn't a necessary condition for warrant. After tackling this, I move on to interact with the Pandora's Box Objection. This objection argues that Plantinga's epistemology is weakened by the fact that all sorts of serious religious beliefs could be warranted by using his system. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Reference: | Errata "Warranted religion (2015)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S003441251400033X |