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On blanket statements about the epistemic effects of religious diversity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2005

ANDREW KOEHL
Affiliation:
Division of Religion and Humanities, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Drive, Rochester, NY 14624

Abstract

Religious diversity poses a challenge to the view that exclusive religious beliefs can be justified and warranted. Equally upright and thoughtful people who appear to possess similarly well-grounded and coherent systems of belief, come up with irreconcilable religious views. The content of religious beliefs also seems unduly dependent upon culture, and no one religion has been shown to be more transformative than the others. Philosophers have recently made at least three kinds of claims about the effects of diversity on exclusive religious beliefs, and five kinds of claims about the proper effect of diversity on exclusivists themselves. Since there are numerous factors that can influence the epistemic impact of religious diversity on exclusive beliefs, each kind of blanket pronouncement made about the epistemic effects of religious diversity is inadequate.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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