Knowledge and Religious Belief

TY - JOUR

T1 - Knowledge and Religious Belief

AU - Antognazza, Maria Rosa

PY - 2021/4/16

Y1 - 2021/4/16

N2 - Introductions to epistemology routinely define knowledge as a kind of belief which meets certain criteria. In the first two sections of this paper, I discuss this account and its application to religious epistemology by the influential movement known as Reformed Epistemology. In the last section, I argue that the controversial consequences drawn from this account by Reformed Epistemology offer one of the best illustrations of the untenability of a conception of knowledge as a kind of belief. I conclude by sketching an alternative account of cognition which also provides a different framework for religious epistemology.

AB - Introductions to epistemology routinely define knowledge as a kind of belief which meets certain criteria. In the first two sections of this paper, I discuss this account and its application to religious epistemology by the influential movement known as Reformed Epistemology. In the last section, I argue that the controversial consequences drawn from this account by Reformed Epistemology offer one of the best illustrations of the untenability of a conception of knowledge as a kind of belief. I conclude by sketching an alternative account of cognition which also provides a different framework for religious epistemology.

U2 - 10.1017/S147717562100004X

DO - 10.1017/S147717562100004X

M3 - Article

SN - 1477-1756

VL - 20

SP - 39

EP - 52

JO - Think

JF - Think

IS - 58

ER -