The Argument from Reason and the Dual Process Reply
The argument from reason states that if naturalism is true, then our beliefs are caused by physical processes rather than being causally based in their reasons, so our beliefs are not knowledge—including the belief in naturalism itself. Recent critics of the argument from reason provide dual process...
| Published in: | Philosophia Christi |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Evangelical Philosophical Society
2022
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Philosophia Christi
Year: 2022, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 217-239 |
| RelBib Classification: | VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | The argument from reason states that if naturalism is true, then our beliefs are caused by physical processes rather than being causally based in their reasons, so our beliefs are not knowledge—including the belief in naturalism itself. Recent critics of the argument from reason provide dual process replies to the argument from reason—our beliefs can have both a naturalistic cause/ explanation and be caused/explained by its reasons, thereby showing that naturalism can accommodate knowledge. In this paper I consider three dual process replies and conclude that none of them are successful |
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| ISSN: | 2640-2580 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophia Christi
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/pc202224220 |