Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma): Publications - PhilPeople

University of Oklahoma
Department of Philosophy

Regular Faculty

Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Areas of Interest

Philosophy of Religion

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First Person and Third Person Reasons and Religious Epistemology
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 3 (2). 2011.

In this paper I argue that there are two kinds of epistemic reasons. One kind is irreducibly first personal -- what I call deliberative reasons. The other kind is third personal -- what I call theoretical reasons. I argue that attending to this distinction illuminates a host of problems in epistemology in general and in religious epistemology in particular. These problems include (a) the way religious experience operates as a reason for religious belief, (b) how we ought to understand religious …Read more
In this paper I argue that there are two kinds of epistemic reasons. One kind is irreducibly first personal -- what I call deliberative reasons. The other kind is third personal -- what I call theoretical reasons. I argue that attending to this distinction illuminates a host of problems in epistemology in general and in religious epistemology in particular. These problems include (a) the way religious experience operates as a reason for religious belief, (b) how we ought to understand religious testimony, (c) how religious authority can be justified, (d) the problem of religious disagreement, and (e) the reasonableness of religious conversion

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