Author : Erik Daniel Baldwin
Publisher : Studies in Philosophical Theol
ISBN 13 : 9789042932364
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (323 download)
Book Synopsis Fully Informed Reasonable Disagreement and Tradition Based Perspectivalism by : Erik Daniel Baldwin
Download or read book Fully Informed Reasonable Disagreement and Tradition Based Perspectivalism written by Erik Daniel Baldwin and published by Studies in Philosophical Theol. This book was released on 2016 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apparently, people who are aware of the relevant facts and experiences in a belief forming situation, sometimes reasonably disagree about whether to believe and why. This study argues that such disagreements are possible, and that some purportedly fully informed reasonable disagreements are genuine, including cases involving disagreement about which beliefs about God are reasonably taken to be properly basic, given the facts of religious diversity and cases in which phenomenologically similar religious experiences properly ground a variety of religious beliefs. Drawing on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, it also argues that Tradition-Based Perspectivalism - roughly, the view that foundational beliefs about what is reasonable to believe and why, are tradition-based and perspectival in nature, originating in and appropriately grounded only from the perspective of some tradition of inquiry or other - is true, and that its truth provides additional support for the claim that fully informed reasonable disagreement actually occurs.