Religious disagreement, mystical experience, and doxastic minimalism : critical notice of john pittard’s disagreement, deference, and religious commitment

dc.contributor.authorLougheed, Kirk
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-20T07:22:03Z
dc.date.available2022-05-20T07:22:03Z
dc.date.issued2021-08
dc.description.abstractIn his recent book, Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment, John Pittard challenges J.L. Schellenberg’s rejection of mystical experience as worthy of enjoying presumptive doxastic trust for two main reasons. First, Pittard holds that Schellenberg wrongly focuses only on avoiding error while placing no emphasis on gaining truth. I argue that, contra Pittard, Schellenberg’s account nicely balances the competing epistemic goals of gaining truth and avoiding error. Second, Pittard thinks that Schellenberg’s criteria for presumptive trust in that of universality and unavoidability are arbitrary. I counter that Schellenberg’s criteria are not arbitrary since they are the best way of achieving these goals. I conclude that despite not enjoying presumptive doxastic trust, this in itself does not entail that mystical experiences are never trustworthy.en_US
dc.description.departmentPhilosophyen_US
dc.description.librarianpm2022en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canadaen_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.mdpi.com/journal/religionsen_US
dc.identifier.citationLougheed, Kirk. 2021. Religious Disagreement, Mystical Experience, and Doxastic Minimalism: Critical Notice of John Pittard’s Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment. Religions 12: 673. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12090673.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2077-1444 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.3390/ rel12090673
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/85598
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.rights© 2021 by the author. Licensee: MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.en_US
dc.subjectPittarden_US
dc.subjectSchellenbergen_US
dc.subjectDoxastic minimalismen_US
dc.subjectMystical experiencesen_US
dc.titleReligious disagreement, mystical experience, and doxastic minimalism : critical notice of john pittard’s disagreement, deference, and religious commitmenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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