Religious Faith and Intellectual Virtue
ISBN: 9780199672158
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
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Subjects: Philosophy Philosophy of Religion Metaphysics/ Epistemology;

Is religious faith consistent with being an intellectually virtuous thinker? In seeking to answer this question, one quickly finds others, each of which has been the focus of recent renewed attention by epistemologists: Must all reasonable belief be grounded in public evidence? Can it be reasonable to hold a belief on a topic over which there is significant, entrenched disagreement among informed inquirers, or should such disagreement lead all parties to modify orsuspend their own judgments? Is there anything about faith that exempts it from measurement against such epistemic norms? And if we would so evaluate it, how exactly should we understand theintellectual commitments faith requires? This volume provides a roadmap of the central issues and controversies as currently discussed by philosophers. Fourteen new essays, written by a diverse and distinguished group of thinkers, consider the place of intellectual virtue in religious faith, exploring one or more of the specific issues noted above.

Laura Frances Callahan is a Clarendon Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Oxford University, formerly a Wells Scholar at Indiana University. Her primary interests are in epistemology.Timothy O'Connor is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University. He is the author of Persons and Causes (Oxford 2000) and Theism and Ultimate Explanation (Blackwell 2008) and the editor of five other volumes in the philosophy of mind and action and metaphysics.

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