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252The epistemological limits of experience-based exclusive religious beliefReligious Studies 44 (4): 445-455. 2008.Alvin Plantinga and other philosophers have argued that exclusive religious belief can be rationally held in response to certain experiences – independently of inference to other beliefs, evidence, arguments, and the like – and thus can be 'properly basic'. We think that this is possible only until the believer acquires the defeater we develop in this paper, a defeater which arises from an awareness of certain salient features of religious pluralism. We argue that, as a consequence of this defea…Read more
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99An epistemic defeater for Islamic belief?International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 76 (4): 352-367. 2015.We aim to further develop and evaluate the prospects of a uniquely Islamic extension of the Standard Aquinas/Calvin model. One obstacle is that certain Qur’an passages such as Surah 8:43–44 apparently suggest that Muslims have reason to think that Allah might be deceiving them. Consistent with perfect/maximally good being theology, Allah would allow such deceptions only if doing so leads to a greater good, so such passages do not necessarily give Muslims reason to doubt Allah’s goodness. Yet the…Read more
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61Reformed Epistemology and the Pandora’s Box Objection: The Vaiśeṣika and Mormon TraditionsPhilosophia Christi 18 (2): 451-465. 2016.Furthering our project of applying Plantinga’s epistemology to different world religions, we do a comparative study of Mormonism and Vaiśeṣika Hinduism and analyze whether they can utilize Plantinga’s epistemology in order to claim that their beliefs about God if true are probably warranted. Specifically, we argue that they cannot, as ultimately they are unable to account for the preconditions needed to make for an intelligible cognitive design plan, due to either affirming an infinite regress w…Read more
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17Plantingian Religious Epistemology and World Religions: Prospects and ProblemsLexington Books. 2018.Baldwin and McNabb explore how non-Christian religious traditions can utilize Plantinga’s epistemology. This book pays particular attention to the question, if there are believers from differing religious traditions that can rightfully utilize his epistemology, does this somehow prevent a Plantingian’s creedal-specific belief from being warranted?
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11How to Be Happy After the End of the WorldIn Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, Blackwell. 2007-11-16.This chapter contains section titled: The Good Life: Booze, Pills, Hot and Cold Running Interns? “Be the Best Machines (and Humans) the Universe Has Ever Seen” “Be Ready to Fight or You Dishonor the Reason Why We're Here” “Each of Us Plays a Role. Each Time a Different Role” Notes.
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8How to Be Happy After the End of the WorldIn Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.