Pragmatic Encroachment, Religious Belief and Practice [electronic resource] /
Rizzieri, A.author.
Engaging several recent and important discussions in the mainstream epistemological literature surrounding 'pragmatic encroachment', the volume asks, amongst others, the question: Do the high stakes involved in accepting or rejecting belief in God raise the standards for knowledge that God exists?
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyrights; Dedication; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Breaking with Orthodoxy: Encroachment and the Bank Cases; I Overview; II Introducing the bank cases; III Two principles of encroachment and the puzzle; A Fantl and McGrath's "knowledge-action" principle; B Moral encroachment, KNA, and KA; IV Competing accounts of the bank cases; A Moderate invariantism and KA's epistemic counterpart; B Maybe knowledge is compatible with negligent action; C Denying belief: Jennifer Nagel, Kent Bach, and the bank cases; D Williamson's KK thesis
E DeRose's intellectualist contextualism and the bank casesNotes; 2 High Stakes and Religiously Significant Propositions; I Overview; II Miracles and stakes considerations; A A stakes-based argument against miracles formulated; B Testimony and evidence; C Inference to the best explanation and the resurrection; D A qualified rejection of stakes-based arguments against miracles; E Hope that J , stakes considerations, and justification that not-J; F Stakes and immoral hopes; III A broader set of religiously significant propositions; IV Conclusion; Notes
3 An Encroachment Argument for InternalismI Overview; II The encroachment argument for internalism; A A mistaken argument for internalism; B The encroachment argument for internalism stated; III (P1) of EAFI; A (P1), KNA, and ENA; B (P1) and two further encroachment principles; IV (P2) of EAFI; A From negligence to internalism; B A further connection between epistemic justification and moral reasoning; Notes; 4 Reformed Epistemology in Light of Encroachment; I Overview; II Plantinga's reformed epistemology; A Plantinga's account of warrant; B The sensus divinitatus
C Religious pluralism and the sensusD The internal instigation of the Holy Spirit; III Reformed epistemology criticized; A Plantinga's weak notions of justification and internal rationality; B Plantinga's dismissal of the problem of evil; C The new evil-demon, the EAFI, and reformed epistemology; D Negligence, access requirements, and reformed epistemology; Notes; 5 The Justification of Action-Guiding Beliefs: A Positive Account; I Overview; II Some necessary conditions on the justification of action-guiding beliefs; A Clause (a) of EI; B Clause (b) of EI; C Clause (c) of EI
D Clause (c) and Bonjour's clairvoyance objection to externalismIII EI, access conditions, and the scope of "action-guiding"; A EI and access conditions; B The scope of "action-guiding" and Bergmann's dilemma for internalism; Notes; 6 James and the Justification Norm of Belief and Action; I Overview; II Hope and belief; III Justification and knowledge norms of belief and action; IV James's argument and his concept of "belief"; V Bishop's argument and the problem of partial belief; A Bishop's views explicated; B The superiority of hope; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-164) and index.
Engaging several recent and important discussions in the mainstream epistemological literature surrounding 'pragmatic encroachment', the volume asks, amongst others, the question: Do the high stakes involved in accepting or rejecting belief in God raise the standards for knowledge that God exists?
Religion—Philosophy.
Epistemology.
Philosophy of Religion.
Epistemology.