عنوان

Closing Pandora's Box :

شماره

TLets810267

عنوان اصلي

Closing Pandora's Box :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

McNabb, Tyler Dalton

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

a defence of Alvin Plantinga's epistemology of religious belief

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Glasgow

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Thesis (Ph.D.)

امتياز متن

2016

متن يادداشت

I argue (1) that Alvin Plantinga's theory of warrant is plausible and (2) that, contrary to the Pandora's Box objection, there are certain serious world religions that cannot successfully use Plantinga's epistemology to demonstrate that their beliefs could be warranted in the same way that Christian belief can be warranted. In arguing for (1), I deploy Ernest Sosa's Swampman case to show that Plantinga's proper function condition is a necessary condition for warrant. I then engage three objections to Plantinga's theory of warrant, each of which attempts to demonstrate that his conditions for warrant are neither necessary nor sufficient. Having defended the plausibility of Plantinga's theory of warrant, I present and expand his key arguments to the effect that naturalism cannot make use of it. These arguments provide the conceptual tools that are needed to argue for (2): that there are certain world religions that cannot legitimately use Plantinga's theory of warrant to demonstrate that their beliefs could be warranted in the same way that Christian belief can be warranted.

موضوع مستند نشده

B Philosophy (General); BJ Ethics; BL Religion

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

University of Glasgow

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Glasgow

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y