Religious Epistemology

This volume presents cutting edge research by many of the leading researchers in the field of religious epistemology.

Stephen Law (Edited by)

9781108453257, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 February 2018

162 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 0.7 cm, 0.25 kg

This volume presents cutting edge research by many of the leading researchers in the field of religious epistemology, a field that has seen major development in recent years. This book attempts to answer the questions of: how reasonable is belief in God? Can a good evidential case be made either for the existence of God, or against the existence of God? Does the existence of enormous suffering, or religious disagreement, provide significant evidence against the existence of God? How might we best come to know God? What's required for religious belief to qualify as rational? All of the papers included in this volume aim to be accessible to the interested layperson.

Notes on contributors
1. Three ways to improve religious epistemology J. L. Schellenberg
2. Religious disagreement and epistemic intuitions Michael Bergmann
3. The problem of evil and sceptical theism Justin McBrayer
4. Skeptical theism and skepticism about the external world and past Stephen Law
5. Sceptical theism, the butterfly effect and bracketing the unknown Alexander R. Pruss
6. Detachment, rationality and evidence: towards a more humane religious epistemology John Cottingham
7. Faith and reason Duncan Pritchard
8. Divine hiddenness: defeated evidence Charity Anderson
9. Misapprehensions about the fine-tuning argument John Hawthorne and Yoaav Isaacs.

Subject Areas: Philosophy of religion [HRAB], Religion & beliefs [HR], Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge [HPK]