profile picture

Daniel Howard-Snyder

Western Washington University
 More details
  •  953
    On an “Unintelligible” Idea: Donald Davidson's Case Against Experiential Foundationalism
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 40 (4): 523-555. 2002.
    Donald Davidson’s epistemology is predicated on, among other things, the rejection of Experiential Foundationalism, which he calls ‘unintelligible’. In this essay, I assess Davidson’s arguments for this conclusion. I conclude that each of them fails on the basis of reasons that foundationalists and antifoundationalists alike can, and should, accept.
    Donald DavidsonFoundationalismThe Given
  •  889
    Schellenberg on Propositional Faith
    Religious Studies (2): 181-194. 2013.
    This paper assesses J. L. Schellenberg’s account of propositional faith and, in light of that assessment, sketches an alternative that avoids certain objections and coheres better with Schellenberg’s aims.
    Religious TopicsBeliefFaithAtheism and AgnosticismThe Number of Gods
  •  2
    Introduction: The Hiddenness of God
    with Paul K. Moser
    In Daniel Howard-Snyder & Paul Moser (eds.), Divine Hiddenness: New Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2001.
    Divine Hiddenness
  •  915
    Divine Openness and Creaturely Non-Resistant Non-Belief
    In Adam Green & Eleonore Stump (eds.), Hidden Divinity and Religious Belief: New Perspectives, Cambridge University Press. 2015.
    We might be tempted to think that, necessarily, if God unsurpassably loves such created persons as there may be, then for any capable created person S and time t, God is at t open to being in a positively meaningful and reciprocal conscious relationship with S at t, where one is open to relationship with another only if one never does anything (by commission or omission) that would have the result that the other was prevented from being able, just by trying, to participate in that relationship. …Read more
    Divine Hiddenness