Faith Entails Belief: Three Avenues of Defense Against the Argument from Doubt (original) (raw)

2021

Abstract

Doxasticism is the view that propositional faith entails belief. A common criticism of doxasticism is that faith seems compatible with doubt in a way that belief is not. Thus, it seems possible to have faith without belief, and several non-doxasticist accounts of faith are motivated inter alia by the need to account for this type of doubt. I provide three avenues of response: 1) favored cases of faith without belief beg the question by stipulating faith-that-p-without-beliefthat-p, or if the non-doxasticist provides evidence that there is faith without belief, this evidence points to either 2) no-faith-that-p-because-disbelief-that-p or 3) faith-that-p-with-belief-that-p.

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