Knowledge and Scientific and Religious Belief / / Paul Weingartner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Weingartner, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis , 77
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 231 p.)

The present book is a book on epistemology with the special and new focus on the relation of different types of knowledge and a differentiated comparison to both scientific and religious belief. The present book distinguishes seven types of knowledge and compares them with both scientific and religious belief. The ususal view is that scientific and religious belief have nothing or not much in common. Although there are important differences, in contradistinction to this widespread view it is shown that there are also many similarities between them. There are similarities concerning the reasons for belief, with respect to the action of believing, concerning a similar voluntary component, or even concerning properties of the content of belief. A detailed discussion of many types of knowledge and a differentiated comparison to scientific and religious belief is an important new contribution to the scientific literature in epistemology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Whether it is Possible to Know Something -- 2. Whether it is Possible to Know Something with Certainty -- 3. Whether it is Possible to Know Something Universal -- 4. Whether Knowledge is Justified True Belief -- 5. Whether Knowledge is Possessing Information -- 6. Whether there are Properties Common to All Seven Types of Knowledge -- 7. Whether it is Necessary to Believe Something -- 8. Whether to Believe is the Same as not to Know -- 9. Whether Knowledge of Reasons for Belief is a Necessary Condition of Belief -- 10. Whether there are Supporting Reasons for Religious Belief -- 11. Whether There is a Voluntary Component in Scientific and in Religious Belief -- 12. Whether Religious Belief Can Be a Kind of Knowledge -- 13. A Theory of Knowledge, Belief and Assumption -- Bibliography -- Index