PHIL 603 The Ethics of Belief
Recent analytic philosophers have advanced the argument that Christian beliefs are irrational since there is insufficient evidence for holding them. Christian philosophers of the analytic school have in turn responded to the objection with different and mutually incompatible replies based upon different and mutually incompatible epistemologies. The purpose of this seminar is to study the evidentialist objection to Christian beliefs, to study the various replies to it by prominent analytic philosophers, to study the epistemologies underlying the objection and replies, and to show how Aquinas speaks to the objection.