CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Békefi, Bálint |
|---|---|
| Title | Engaging Oppy's Metaphilosophy of Religion: Arguments, Worldviews, and Disagreement |
| Summary | This thesis engages Graham Oppy’s metaphilosophy of religion – which includes his theories of argumentation, epistemic justification, and the epistemology of disagreement – developing a critique and proposing an alternative. Chapter I presents Oppy’s views and his main reasons in their favor. Chapter II argues that Oppy is committed to two claims – that only truth-conducive reasons can justify philosophical belief and that such justification depends entirely on one’s judgments about the theoretical virtues of comprehensive worldviews – that jointly entail that philosophical beliefs cannot be justified. It also argues that it is the latter of these two claims that should be abandoned, which implies accepting some version of foundationalism. Chapter III develops a kind of foundationalism – a version of phenomenal conservatism – that vindicates the goodness of arguments contra Oppy, allows for plenty of prima facie justified philosophical beliefs, but sanctions steadfastness in the face of widespread expert and peer disagreement only for relatively special kinds of philosophical theses – ones that, in effect, question the neutrality of reason with respect to the discovery of truth in the given domain. |
| Supervisor | Griffin, Michael Vance |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/bekefi_balint.pdf |
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