Oppy on arguments and worldviews: an internal critique

This paper develops an internal critique of Graham Oppy’s metaphilosophy of religion – his theories of argumentation, worldview comparison, and epistemic justification. First, it presents Oppy’s views and his main reasons in their favor. Second, it argues that Oppy is committed to two claims – that...

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1. VerfasserIn: Békefi, Bálint (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer Nature B. V 2024
In: International journal for philosophy of religion
Jahr: 2024, Band: 95, Heft: 1, Seiten: 61-76
weitere Schlagwörter:B Graham Oppy
B Epistemic Justification
B Coherentism
B Metaphilosophy
B Theistic arguments
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Zusammenfassung:This paper develops an internal critique of Graham Oppy’s metaphilosophy of religion – his theories of argumentation, worldview comparison, and epistemic justification. First, it presents Oppy’s views and his main reasons in their favor. Second, it argues that Oppy is committed to two claims – that only truth-conducive reasons can justify philosophical belief and that such justification depends entirely on one’s judgments about the theoretical virtues of comprehensive worldviews – that jointly entail the unacceptable conclusion that philosophical beliefs cannot be justified. Third, it briefly argues that of his two claims, it is his thoroughgoing coherentism that should be rejected.
ISSN:1572-8684
Enthält:Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11153-023-09891-0