Religious Faith and Intellectual Virtue
Religious Faith and Intellectual Virtue
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宗教信仰与知识美德
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199672158.003.0009
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2014
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Fricker E
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Fricker E
Religious belief and faith for some may be acquired and sustained in part by individual religious experience. but for many the route to religious belief (or to atheism) may be primarily through accepting the explicit teachings of others around them treated as authoritative, at the same time as acquiescing in, taking on board, the predominant views on metaphysical and religious matters in the community in which they grow up. These beliefs may, as it were, slip in through the side-door without being subjected to conscious rational scrutiny before being incorporated into the individual’s framing world view. Once part of that world view, they then shape the doxastic response to other particular bits of evidence that come the individual’s way—in some cases, working to perpetuate the world view, and insulate it against what some others might see as counter-evidence to it. 1This being so, the following issue is central to the epistemology of religious belief: when, if ever, is it epistemically permissible or mandatory for one to take the fact that another holds a certain belief as grounds to adopt it oneself? I will examine an idea that is crucial to this question. One places epistemic trust in another, when one treats her beliefs as prima facie credible—that is, one takes the fact that she holds a certain belief, say P, as prima facie evidence of the truth of P, and forms belief that P
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2013
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Stewart M Cohen
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Stewart M Cohen
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1978
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R. Firth
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R. Firth
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Elga, Adam
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Elga, Adam