New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology

07/05/2024

New book “Knowledge and God” by Matthew Benton, free to download through May 20:

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Knowledge and God

22/12/2023

New book from Max Baker-Hytch, free to download until 5 January:

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Religion - God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity

02/09/2021

A new volume coming out co-edited by a former New Insights fellow...

Epistemological questions about the significance of disagreement have advanced alongside broader developments in social epistemology concerning testimony, the nature of expertise and epistemic authority, the role of institutions, group belief, and epistemic injustice, among others. During this perio...

15/06/2021

New special issue edited by former project fellow Billy Dunaway and Jon McGinnis (UMSL), on Islamic Philosophy and Contemporary Philosophy of Religion. Some great papers on religious epistemology in here.

09/04/2020

Ben Page (Durham) has been making fantastic videos explaining issues in religious epistemology and philosophy of religion (even citing some of the publications of the New Insights project fellows)!
Video links here; project papers relevant to these videos linked in the comments.

https://youtu.be/RNQeOJoeiW0

https://youtu.be/4zlaFnYqGYo

https://youtu.be/EiYcUJEJEUk

In this video I share with you a useful visual tool that I learned from the philosopher John Hawthorne for thinking about probabilistic reasoning, called the...

10/06/2019

A forthcoming new volume of essays co-edited by one of our former fellows, Dani Rabinowitz. Congratulations, Dani!

Since the classical period, Jewish scholars have drawn on developments in philosophy to enrich our understanding of Judaism. This methodology reached its pinnacle in the medieval period with figures like Maimonides and continued into the modern period with the likes of Rosenzweig.

26/02/2019

Here is a new grant of interest, co-led by one of our former New Insights fellows, Billy Dunaway. (Congratulations, Billy!)

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13/02/2019

Excellent review by Andrew Moon of our edited volume, *Knowledge, Belief, and God,* in Faith & Philosophy (which is now open access!). https://place.asburyseminary.edu/faithandphilosophy/vol36/iss1/7/

Other recent reviews linked in the comments below...

By Andrew Moon, Published on 01/01/19

04/10/2018

Another good review of our volume, by T. Ryan Byerly at Univ of Sheffield, in NDPR:

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07/08/2018

First review out of our edited volume, by Jerome Gellman:

Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology, edited by Matthew A. Benton, John Hawthorne, and Dani Rabinowitz, is not “philosophy for dummies.” It is for advanced analytic philosophers with full knowledge of probability theory and of transfinite set-theory. This collection...

07/08/2018

A new paper by one of our former New Insights fellows, Matthew Benton, just out in Res Philosophica. Other articles of interest in this special issue, on New Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion, include one by our project visitor in 2014, Robert Pasnau (see 2nd link for all articles of the special issue).

https://www.pdcnet.org/resphilosophica/content/resphilosophica_2018_0095_0003_0421_0447

https://www.pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=resphilosophica&fq=resphilosophica%2FVolume%2F8905%7C95%2F8997%7CIssue%3A+3%2F

Recent epistemology offers an account of what it is to know other persons. Such an approach holds promise for illuminating several issues in philosophy of religion, and for advancing a distinctive approach to religious epistemology. This paper develops an account of interpersonal knowledge and clari...