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4Newman on belief‐confidence, proportionality, and probabilityHeythrop Journal 26 (2): 164-176. 1985.
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47Newman and William James on religious experience: The theory and the concreteHeythrop Journal 29 (1). 1988.
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24Newman and the 'Ethics of Belief'Religious Studies 19 (3). 1983.The last thirty years have seen a number of major contributions to the philosophical discussion of the possibility and character of an ‘ethics of belief’. In so far as the concern was focused on the problem of what constitutes ‘sufficient’ or ‘insufficient evidence’, the question of the ‘ethics of belief’ has turned into the current philosophical preoccupation with the question of the character of ‘rationality’ and the possibility of criteria of rationality which are either universal or at least…Read more
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21Normativity and Reference in a Wittgensteinian Philosophy of ReligionFaith and Philosophy 18 (4): 443-464. 2001.
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59Locke's 'constructive skepticism' -- a reappraisalJournal of the History of Philosophy 24 (2): 211-222. 1986.
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16Levinas and Kierkegaard on triadic relations with GodIn B. Keith Putt (ed.), Gazing through a prism darkly: reflections on Merold Westphal's hermeneutical epistemology, Fordham University Press. 2009.This chapter discusses different views on religion and ethics from the viewpoint of Emmanuel Levinas and Søren Kierkegaard, and their insightful comparisons and contrasts to the viewpoints of Merold Westphal. It presents the qualifications that can be made for such comparison, first with Kierkegaard, then to Levinas. It argues that if Kierkegaard's view is that “God always stands between me and my neighbor”, it is then related to the view of Levinas, that is “the neighbor always stands between m…Read more
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31Leaps and Circles: Kierkegaard and Newman on Faith and ReasonReligious Studies 30 (4): 379-397. 1994.Søren Kierkegaard and John Henry Newman have starkly opposed formulations of the relation between faith and reason. In this essay I focus on a possible convergence in their respective understandings of the transition to religious belief or faith, as embodied in metaphors they use for a qualitative transition. I explore the ways in which attention to the legitimate dimension of discontinuity highlighted by the Climacan metaphor of the 'leap' can illuminate Newman 's use of the metaphor of a 'poly…Read more
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48Leaps and circles: Kierkegaard and Newman on faith and reason: M. Jamie FerreiraReligious Studies 30 (4): 379-397. 1994.Søren Kierkegaard and John Henry Newman have starkly opposed formulations of the relation between faith and reason. In this essay I focus on a possible convergence in their respective understandings of the transition to religious belief or faith, as embodied in metaphors they use for a qualitative transition. I explore the ways in which attention to the legitimate dimension of discontinuity highlighted by the Climacan metaphor of the ‘leap’ can illuminate Newman's use of the metaphor of a ‘polyg…Read more
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55J. Kellenberger, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: Faith and eternal acceptance (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 45 (2): 141-142. 1999.
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42Love’s Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard’s “Works of Love.”Oxford University Press USA. 2001.Soren Kierkegaard's Works of Love, a series of deliberations on the commandment to love one's neighbor, has often been condemned by critics. Here, Ferreira seeks to rehabilitate Works of Love as one of Kierkegaard's most important works. He shows that Kierkegaard's deliberations on love are highly relevant to some important themes in contemporary ethics, including impartiality, duty, equality, mutuality, reciprocity, self-love, sympathy, and sacrifice. Ferreira also argues that Works of Love bea…Read more
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53Scepticism and reasonable doubt: the British naturalist tradition in Wilkins, Hume, Reid and NewmanOxford University Press. 1986.Charting the development of the British tradition of naturalism from the 17th to the 19th century, this book provides fascinating insight into a wide range of thinkers, both Catholic and Protestant, who explored the themes of proof, practice, and the role of common sense. Reappraising what these thinkers can teach us about the relations between belief, action, and skepticism, Ferreira contributes to the philosophical study of naturalist replies to skepticism, as well as to a deeper appreciation …Read more
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55Religion’s ‘Foundation in Reason’Canadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (4): 565-581. 1994.David Hume’s critique of religion reveals what seems to be a vacillation in his commitment to an argument-based paradigm of legitimate believing. On the one hand, Hume assumes such a traditional model of rational justification of beliefs in order to point to the weakness of some classical arguments for religious belief, to chastise the believer for extrapolating to a conclusion which outstrips its evidential warrant. On the other hand, Hume, ‘mitigated’ or naturalist skeptic that he is, at other…Read more