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Speaker: Kegan Shaw (University of Edinburgh)

Title: Faith as Extended Knowledge

Abstract: You don’t know that p unless it’s on account of your cognitive abilities that you believe truly that p. Virtue epistemologists think there’s some such ability constraint on knowledge. This looks to be in considerable tension, though, with putative faith-based knowledge. For at least on the Christian conception, when you believe something truly on the basis of faith this isn’t because of anything you’re competent to do. Rather faith-based beliefs are entirely a product of divine agency. Appearances to the contrary, I argue in this paper that there’s no deep tension between faith-based knowledge and virtue epistemology. Not if we learn to conceive of faith as a kind of extended knowledge.

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