by W. Jay Wood – This article is about virtue epistemology. In a nutshell, virtue epistemologists claim that acquiring deeply anchored habits of excellent cognitive functioning greatly assists us to win life’s most interesting and important knowledge. As I will argue, excellent cognitive functioning at its highest levels requires the cooperation of our wills; appropriate … Read More
by Steven B. Cowan – Many arguments for God’s existence appeal to objective features of the physical universe as their starting points. For example, the cosmological argument (the “where did-it-all-come-from” argument) begins with the existence of the universe and seeks an explanation for why something exists rather than nothing. The argument concludes that the existence … Read More
by James Beilby and David K. Clark How can we know the world around us? How can we know God? How can we know anything at all? These are some of the questions of epistemology, the study of theories of knowledge. Epistemology has two main goals. First, we want to find as much truth as … Read More
by Clete Hux and Steven B. Cowan – I believe that God exists,” the philosophy professor announced, “but everybody has his own opinion about what God is like. And who’s to say who’s right? We have to be agnostic about the nature of God. We can’t know anything about him for sure.” For many of … Read More
A Brief Introduction to the Theology of Knowledge By James Beilby and David K. Clark – How can we know the world around us? How can we know God? How can we know anything at all? These are some of the questions of epistemology, the study of theories of knowledge. Epistemology has two main goals. … Read More