Philosophy of Religion Beyond the Proofs
Move past standard cosmological and ontological arguments into the modern debates shaping philosophical theology. Explore religious epistemology, the paradoxes of divine attributes, the evidential problem of evil, and the limits of religious language.
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25 levels across 4 sections, about 50 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Grounding Knowledge Without Syllogisms; Reconciling Divine Attributes and Human Reality; Confronting Suffering and Divine Moral Logic; and Interrogating Meaning, Language, and Transcendence. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Philosophy of Religion Beyond the Proofs
- A properly basic belief is rational to hold without inferring it from another proposition.
- Belief in the external world, other minds, and the past are standard properly basic beliefs.
- Plantinga argues belief in God is produced by an innate cognitive faculty (sensus divinitatis).
- The Great Pumpkin objection argues basicity without criteria allows absurd superstitions.
- Reformed epistemologists must distinguish warranted religious belief without demanding formal proof.
- Plantinga answers that basic beliefs require cognitive faculties functioning properly in a fitting environment.
- Clifford's principle cannot be proven using the standard of evidence it demands.
- Demanding inferential proof for all beliefs forces an infinite regress or destroys basic beliefs.
- Accepting Clifford's maxim would make rational trust in sensory perception and memory impossible.
- A cumulative case relies on an inference to the best explanation across multiple domains.
- Independent strands of evidence combine to support a hypothesis even if each alone is inconclusive.
- Cumulative justification mirrors how legal trials or scientific theories build explanatory power.
- Epistemic peers share equal intelligence, cognitive virtue, and access to relevant evidence.
- Conciliationism argues peer disagreement requires reducing confidence in contested beliefs.
- Steadfastness allows holding belief if one possesses private, incommunicable warrant.
- Perfect divine love would always make reciprocal relationship available to anyone open to it.
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Where Philosophy of Religion Beyond the Proofs takes you
- 1
Grounding Knowledge Without Syllogisms
- Evaluating Reformed Epistemology and Warrant
- Navigating Divine Hiddenness and Unbelief
- 2
Reconciling Divine Attributes and Human Reality
- Mapping Omniscience Against Human Freedom
- Deconstructing Simplicity, Eternity, and Emotion
- 3
Confronting Suffering and Divine Moral Logic
- Weighing Evidential Evil and Skeptical Theism
- Evaluating Alternative and Anti-Theodicies
- 4
Interrogating Meaning, Language, and Transcendence
- Analyzing the Limits of Religious Language
- Tracing the Existential and Phenomenological Turn
4 sections · 8 units · 25 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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