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This volume presents renewed efforts at how best to think about truths concerning religion. It explores many issues at the intersection of the epistemology of disagreement and religious epistemology, engaging in careful reflection on religious diversity and disagreement and offering ways to balance epistemic humility with personal conviction.
List of contents
- 1: Matthew A. Benton: Disagreement and Religion: Problems and Prospects
- 2: Laura Frances Callahan: Disagreement, Testimony, and Religious Understanding
- 3: Sanford Goldberg: How Confident Should the Religious Believer Be in the Face of Religious Pluralism?
- 4: Margaret Greta Turnbull: Religious Disagreement is Not Unique
- 5: Richard Feldman: Is There Anything Special about Religious Disagreement?
- 6: Joshua Blanchard and L.A. Paul: Transformative Experience and the Problem of Religious Disagreement
- 7: Nathan L. King: The Apologist's Dilemma
- 8: John Pittard: Rationalist Resistance to Disagreement-Motivated Religious Skepticism
- 9: Jonathan L. Kvanvig: How to Be an Inclusivist
- 10: Katherine Dormandy: The Loyalty of Religious Disagreement
- 11: Isaac Choi: Democracy of the Dead? The Relevance of Majority Opinion in Theology
About the author
Matthew A. Benton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University, where he has taught since 2016. Prior to that he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and at the University of Oxford. He earned a PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University. He works primarily in epistemology, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of language.
Jonathan L. Kvanvig is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, Professor and Department Chair at the University of Missouri, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. He works primarily in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, with related work in the philosophy of language and logic. He has published 18 books, and his work has been supported by grants from the Marc Sanders Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Templeton Religion Trust.
Summary
This volume presents renewed efforts at how best to think about truths concerning religion. It explores many issues at the intersection of the epistemology of disagreement and religious epistemology, engaging in careful reflection on religious diversity and disagreement and offering ways to balance epistemic humility with personal conviction.
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Religious Disagreement and Pluralism offers a fascinating and multifaceted look at a number of problems in contemporary religious epistemology. It is not, nor does it seek to be, the definitive word on its subject matter. Though it proposes answers to the problems it raises, its most significant contribution will likely be to spur greater interest and suggest new directions of research into these issues. The book's clear and thorough introduction and accessible style throughout will make it accessible to non-specialist philosophers and graduate students in epistemology and philosophy of religion alike, and it will likely become essential reading for religious epistemologists, particularly those interested in the social dimensions of religious knowledge.
