Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment

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New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology, a series of workshops held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March and 12th-13th June 2013. The aim of this project is to make a bold and lasting impact on religious epistemology. This project aims to bring recent developments in epistemology to…

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    Deliberation welcomes prediction

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2015 97:33


    Alan Hájek (Australian National University) gives a talk for the New Insights seminar series on 21st May 2015. Abstract: A number of prominent authors—Levi, Spohn, Gilboa, Seidenfeld, and Price among them—hold that rational agents cannot assign subjective probabilities to their options while deliberating about which one they will choose. This has been called the "deliberation crowds out prediction" thesis. The thesis, if true, has important ramifications for many aspects of Bayesian epistemology, decision theory, and game theory. The stakes are high. The thesis is not true—or so I maintain. After some scene-setting, I will precisify and rebut several of the main arguments for the thesis. I will defend the rationality of assigning probabilities to options while deliberating about them: deliberation welcomes prediction. I will also consider application of the thesis, and its denial, to Pascal's Wager.

    Reasoning with Plenitude

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2015 43:13


    Roger White (MIT) gives the final talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.

    Testimony, Error, and Reasonable Belief in Medieval Religious Epistemology

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2015 28:26


    Richard Cross (Notre Dame) gives a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015. The commentator is Christina Van Dyke, Calvin

    Fine-Tuning Fine-Tuning

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2015 53:50


    John Hawthorne (Oxford/USC) gives a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.

    What is Justified Group Belief

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2015 59:10


    Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern) gives a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.

    Foundations of the Fine-Tuning Argument

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2015 34:30


    Hans Halvorson (Princeton) give a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015. The commentator is John Pittard (Yale).

    How to Appear to Know that God Exists

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2015 41:35


    Keith DeRose (Yale), gives a talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015. The commentator is Jane Friedman (NYU).

    Show and Tell

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2015 41:49


    Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge) gives the first talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.

    The Rev’d Mr Bayes and the Life Everlasting

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2015 25:36


    Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame) gives the second talk for the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015. The commentator is Jeffrey Sanford Russell (USC).

    Phenomenal Conservatism and Religious Belief

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2015 63:37


    Richard Swinburne, University of Oxford, gives the first talk in the New Insights in Religious Epistemology International Conference, held in Oxford in June 2015.

    Skeptical Theism and the Future

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2015 77:40


    First talk given by Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini (Rutgers) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014.

    Foundations for an Accuracy-based Approach to Imprecise Credence

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2015 90:30


    Second talk given by Jason Konek (Bristol) and Billy Dunaway (Oxford) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014.

    Divine Indifference, or Whatever

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2015 79:32


    Third talk given by Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014.

    Against the Orthodoxy: Rethinking Epistemic Reasons and Pascal's Wager

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2015 83:05


    Fourth talk given by Rima Basu (USC) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.

    Salvaging Pascal's Wager

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2015 82:01


    Fifth talk given by Liz Jackson (Nortre Dame) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.

    Updating on Evil

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2015 93:34


    Sixth and final talk given by Professor Roger White (MIT) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014.

    Epistemic Intuitions and Defeaters for Noninferential Religious Belief

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2014 88:23


    Sixth and final talk given by Professor Michael Bergmann (Purdue) at the Defeat and Religious Epistemology for the New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop, Oxford University on 17th March 2014

    Defeaters, Proper Functioning, and the Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2014 80:34


    Fifth talk given by Professor Edward Wierenga (Rochester) at the Defeat and Religious Epistemology for the New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop Oxford University held on 17th March 2014

    Fundamental Disagreements and Defeat

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2014 82:06


    Fourth talk given by Professor John Pittard (Yale Divinity School) at the Defeat and Religious Epistemology for the New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop, Oxford University on 18th March 2014

    (Undercutting) Epistemic Defeat and the 'Conciliatory' Road to Agnosticism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2014 90:55


    Second talk given by Dr. J. Adam Carter (Edinburgh) at the Defeat and Religious Epistemology from the New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop, Oxford University held on 17th March 2014

    Defeat, Testimony, and Miracles

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2014 77:51


    First talk given by Dr Charity Anderson (Oxford) at the Defeat and Religious Epistemology from the New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop Oxford University on 17th March 2014

    Religious Belief and the Epistemology of Testimony

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2014 93:14


    Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern) gives the seventh and last presentation, as part of the Testimony and Religious Epistemology workshop, held on 24th and 25th June 2014 by New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop,Oxford University.

    Epistemic Trust in Oneself and Others – An Argument from Analogy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2014 89:08


    Lizzie Fricker (Oxford), gives the sixth presentation Testimony and Religious Epistemology workshop, held on 24th and 25th June 2014 by New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, Oxford University The commentator is Mikkel Gerken (Edinburgh)

    Limits on Religious Testimony: Lessons on Morality

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2014 85:58


    Laura Callahan (Oxford) gives the fifth presentation at the Testimony and Religious Epistemology workshop, held on 24th and 25th June 2014 by New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop Oxford University. The commentator is Peter Graham (UC-Riverside).

    Can Anti-Reductionism in the Epistemology of Testimony aid the case of Justified Religious Belief?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2014 77:48


    Sandford Goldberg (Northwestern) gives the fourth presentation at the Testimony and Religious Epistemology held on 24th and 25th June 2014 by New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, Oxford University. The commenter: John Hawthorne (Oxford)

    Understanding and Knowing by Testimony

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2014 83:19


    Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge) gives the third presentation of the Testimony and Religious Epistemology workshop geld onb 24th and 25th June 2014 by New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, Oxford University. The commentator is Alison Hills (Oxford)

    An internalist, evidentialist, foundationalist, reductionist, egoist and otherwise unpopular account of testimonial justification

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2014 88:32


    Trent Dougherty (Baylor), gives the second presentation at the Testimony and Religious Epistemology workshop, held on 24th and 25th June 2014 by New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop Oxford University.

    Those Unwise People Still Dwelling in Their Senses’: Religious Speech, Moral Testimony and Audience (Mis)understanding

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2014 82:16


    Rachel Fraser (Oxford) gives the first presentation of the Testimony and Religious Epistemology, held on 24th and 25 June 2014 by the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop Oxford University. The commentator is Max Baker-Hytch (Oxford).

    The inevitable implausibility of physical determinism

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2014 52:06


    Richard G. Swinburne, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology seminar series. Abstract: Epiphenomenalism is the scientific theory that conscious events never cause physical events (and so intentions never cause brain events). The Libet programme seeks to prove epiphenomenalism by showing that it never makes any difference to a sequence of brain events whether or not an intention occurs during the course of it. To show that, it needs to show when (relative to brain events) some intention occurs; and to show that it relies on the reports of subjects about when and whether they form any intention. But while we are always justified in believing claims based on apparent experience, memory, or testimony in the absence of defeaters, it is a defeater to any such claim that some event occurred, that the apparent experience, memory, or testimony was not caused by the event. So we would only be justified in believing these reports if we were justified in believing that the reports were caused by subjects' having an intention to make words come out of their mouths which correctly report their other intentions. So the programme to prove epiphenomenalism relies on evidence about subjects' intentions on which it would only be justified in relying if epiphenomenalism is false. Hence the programme is self-defeating; and so is any other programme purporting to show that we can have a justified belief in epiphenomenalism and so in the causal closure of the physical.

    What is faith?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2013 110:34


    New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology lecture by Dan Howard-Snyder (Washington), 29th October 2013.

    Safe Disbelief

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2013 95:36


    Religious Epistemology and the Safety Condition for Knowledge, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, 12th-13th June 2013. Day one 1st paper by Julien Dutant. Comments from Yoaav Isaacs and chaired by Charity Anderson.

    Are We Luminous?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2013 90:39


    Religious Epistemology and the Safety Condition for Knowledge, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, 12th-13th June 2013. Day one 2nd paper by Amia Srinivasan. Comments from Clayton Littlejohn and chaired by Matthew Benton.

    Knowledge and Safety

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2013 98:07


    Religious Epistemology and the Safety Condition for Knowledge, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, 12th-13th June 2013. Day one 3rd paper by Duncan Pritchard. Chaired by Declan Smithies.

    When does Data Count as Evidence? Reflections on CORNEA, Safety and Sensitivity

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2013 83:27


    Religious Epistemology and the Safety Condition for Knowledge, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, 12th-13th June 2013. Day two 1st paper by Patrick Bondy. Comments from Sara Kier Praëm and chaired by Emil Moeller.

    Knowledge by Way of Prophecy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2013 49:43


    Religious Epistemology and the Safety Condition for Knowledge, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, 12th-13th June 2013. Day two 2nd paper by Dani Rabinowitz. Comments Rachel Fraser, chaired by Daniel Berntson.

    Safety, Simplicity and Abduction.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2013 91:07


    Religious Epistemology and the Safety Condition for Knowledge, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 12th-13th June 2013. Day two 3rd paper by Tim Williamson. Chaired by Jeffrey Russell.

    On Two Ultimately Unsuccessful Objections to Pragmatic Encroachment

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 93:21


    Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Jane Friedman.

    Wagering on Pragmatic Encroachment

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 88:34


    Part of the Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Jeffrey Russell.

    A Contextualist Look at Skeptical Theism

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 89:17


    Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Amia Srinivasan.

    Knowledge, Practical Adequacy, and Stakes

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 91:53


    Part of the Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Sandy Goldberg.

    Pragmatic Encroachment and the Nature of Faith

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 90:36


    Part of the Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held at Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Julien Dutant.

    Pragmatic Encroachment and Religious Knowledge

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2013 89:35


    Part of the Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held at Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The Commentator is Tim Pickavance.

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