Document Type : Research Paper
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PhD Candidate of Philosophy of Religion, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies
Abstract
Robert Audi, well-known American epistemologist, has a distinctive approach toward the rationality of faith which is worth studying. Audi attempts to differentiate non-doxastic propositional faith (NDPF) from other kinds of faith, which is irreducible to just a propositional belief (PB) and to distinguish rationality from justification in order to make it clear that the rationality pertaining to NDPF differs from the one pertaining to PB. The big part of Audi’s work has dedicated to redefine the conception of faith and rationality, which both criticized. For instance, some Audi’s specifications for describing NDPF are somehow ambiguous. It seems, moreover, that there is no propositional attitude satisfying all of the specifications. Furthermore, NDPF is different from the faith accepted by religions and devoted religious people. Considering these and other challenges Audi’s theory faces, it seems he is not highly successful in his theory.
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