Belief, Religious Belief, and Faith

TY - JOUR

T1 - Belief, Religious Belief, and Faith

AU - Antognazza, Maria Rosa

PY - 2019/8

Y1 - 2019/8

N2 - In this paper I argue that a specific case of belief – religious belief – shows in a particularly striking way that the project of turning belief into knowledge with the addition of necessary and sufficient conditions is misguided, and that a different account of cognition is therefore needed. In the final part of the paper, I gesture at my proposal for such an alternative account. This account, I claim, is both traditional and novel – traditional insofar as it builds on some insights from the history of epistemology which should, in my view, be recovered; novel insofar as, in so doing, it proposes a conception of knowledge significantly different from what was regarded until recently as the ‘standard’ account.

AB - In this paper I argue that a specific case of belief – religious belief – shows in a particularly striking way that the project of turning belief into knowledge with the addition of necessary and sufficient conditions is misguided, and that a different account of cognition is therefore needed. In the final part of the paper, I gesture at my proposal for such an alternative account. This account, I claim, is both traditional and novel – traditional insofar as it builds on some insights from the history of epistemology which should, in my view, be recovered; novel insofar as, in so doing, it proposes a conception of knowledge significantly different from what was regarded until recently as the ‘standard’ account.

KW - Knowledge, Justified True Belief, Natural Theology, Reformed Epistemology, Justification, Warrant, Externalism, Plantinga, Gettier.

U2 - 10.1413/93899

DO - 10.1413/93899

M3 - Article

SN - 0035-6239

VL - 110

SP - 283

EP - 306

JO - Rivista di Filosofia

JF - Rivista di Filosofia

IS - 2

ER -