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15Proper Functionalism, Perfectionism, and the Epistemic Value ProblemInternational Philosophical Quarterly 63 (1): 23-32. 2023.The epistemic value problem—that of explaining why knowledge is valuable, and in particular why it is more valuable than lesser epistemic standings, such as true belief—remains unsolved. Here, I argue that this problem can be solved by combining proper functionalism about knowledge with perfectionism about goodness. I begin by laying out the epistemic value problem and the extant challenges to solving it. I then proceed to begin solving the problem by explicating a broad and ecumenical form of p…Read more
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29Classical Theism: New Essays on the Metaphysics of God (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This volume provides a contemporary account of classical theism. It features sixteen original essays from leading scholars that advance the discussion of classical theism in new and interesting directions. It's safe to say that classical theism--the view that God is simple, omniscient, and the greatest possible being--is no longer the assumed view in analytic philosophy of religion. It is often dismissed as being rooted in outdated metaphysical systems of the sort advanced by ancient and medieva…Read more
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23The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2023.The first handbook on the topic of religious epistemology introduces and discusses topics fundamental to the epistemology of religious belief.
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36An Ecumenical MooreanismPhilosophia 49 (5): 2019-2040. 2021.The purpose of this paper is to get clear on how we should think about Mooreanism. I will argue that Mooreanism is best understood as a metaphilosophical response to skepticism rather than a particular position on specialized debates in first-order epistemology. This ecumenical understanding of Mooreanism implies that a broad array of epistemologists is free to be Moorean. In Sect. 2 I discuss several non-Moorean responses to skepticism. In Sect. 3 I provide an exposition of Mooreanism itself. I…Read more
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95Ethical MooreanismSynthese 199 (3-4): 6943-6965. 2021.In this paper I lay out, argue for, and defend ethical Mooreanism. In essence, the view says that some moral propositions are Moorean propositions and thus are epistemically superior to the conjunctions of the premises of skeptical arguments to the contrary. In Sect. 1 I explain Mooreanism and then ethical Mooreanism. In Sect. 2 I argue for ethical Mooreanism by noting a number of important epistemic parities that hold between certain moral truths and standard Moorean facts. In Sect. 3 I defend …Read more
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49Metaethical Mooreanism and Evolutionary DebunkingProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 92 271-284. 2018.In this paper I will apply the Moorean response to external world skepticism to moral skepticism, specifically to the evolutionary debunking argument against morality. I begin, in section 1, with a discussion of Mooreanism. In section 2, I proceed to a discussion of metaethical Mooreanism, which is the view that some moral facts are Moorean facts. In section 3 I apply metaethical Mooreanism to the evolutionary debunking argument against morality. If the arguments of the paper hold up it will tur…Read more
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145Faith and Reason: Philosophers Explain Their Turn to Catholicism (edited book)Ignatius Press. 2019.Philosophers explain the reasons that persuaded them to become Catholic.
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25Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 9, edited by Russ Shafer-Landau (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 15 (1): 108-111. 2018.
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23Courting Epistemology: Legal Scholarship, the Courts, and the Rationality of Religious BeliefOxford Journal of Law and Religion 3 (2): 195-211. 2014.What we here show is two-fold. First, there is in certain sectors of the legal community a trend to pronounce negatively on the epistemic credentials of religious belief: many hold that religious belief as such is simply irrational. Our second claim is simply that religious belief need not be irrational: it is perfectly possible for religious believers to have epistemically justified religious beliefs. We discuss here several implications of our two-fold claim. The most important of these is sim…Read more
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375Dogmatism without MooreanismAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 54 (2): 195-211. 2017.One common way of attacking dogmatism is to attack its alleged Mooreanism. The thought is that dogmatism includes (or perhaps entails) Mooreanism, but that Mooreanism is false and thus so is dogmatism. One way of responding to this charge is to defend Mooreanism. Another strategy is to articulate a version of dogmatism without Mooreanism. This paper is an attempt to articulate the latter view.
Jonathan Fuqua
Conception Seminary College
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Conception Seminary CollegeAssistant Professor
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Religion |
Meta-Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |