Knowledge and Scientific and Religious Belief

✍ Scribed by Paul Weingartner

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 244
• Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis; 77
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present book is a book on epistemology with the special and new focus on the relation of different types of knowledge and a differentiated comparison to both scientific and religious belief. The present book distinguishes seven types of knowledge and compares them with both scientific and religious belief.

The ususal view is that scientific and religious belief have nothing or not much in common. Although there are important differences, in contradistinction to this widespread view it is shown that there are also many similarities between them. There are similarities concerning the reasons for belief, with respect to the action of believing, concerning a similar voluntary component, or even concerning properties of the content of belief.

A detailed discussion of many types of knowledge and a differentiated comparison to scientific and religious belief is an important new contribution to the scientific literature in epistemology.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
1. Whether it is Possible to Know Something
2. Whether it is Possible to Know Something with Certainty
3. Whether it is Possible to Know Something Universal
4. Whether Knowledge is Justified True Belief
5. Whether Knowledge is Possessing Information
6. Whether there are Properties Common to All Seven Types of Knowledge
7. Whether it is Necessary to Believe Something
8. Whether to Believe is the Same as not to Know
9. Whether Knowledge of Reasons for Belief is a Necessary Condition of Belief
10. Whether there are Supporting Reasons for Religious Belief
11. Whether There is a Voluntary Component in Scientific and in Religious Belief
12. Whether Religious Belief Can Be a Kind of Knowledge
13. A Theory of Knowledge, Belief and Assumption
Bibliography
Index