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Public reason, democracy, and the ideal two-tier social choice model of politics
This article develops an account of political legitimacy based on the articulation of a social choice theoretic framework with the idea of public...
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On an Epistemic Cornerstone of Skeptical Theism: in Defense of CORNEA
Skeptical theism is a family of responses to arguments from evil. One important member of that family is Stephen Wykstra’s CORNEA-based criticism of...
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Stewardship: Taking Care of Your Followers
As a leader, one method of demonstrating love to your followers is through providing the examples of stewardship. From this context, the chapter goes...
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Antiluminosity, Excuses and the Sufficiency of Knowledge for Rational Action
According to a widely discussed view, knowledge plays a significant normative role in action: It is epistemically rational to treat p as your reason...
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The sensitivity of legal proof
The proof paradox results from conflicting intuitions concerning different types of fallible evidence in a court of law. We accept fallible...
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Economic Issues
This chapter focuses on how individuals perceive the causes of economic issues, such as poverty and the general state of the economy. There is a long...
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The Freedom Party Austria (FPÖ) as the Party of the “Little Man”: The Economic Ideas of the FPÖ as a Topic in Socio-economic and Political Education
Dealing with right-wing populism and right-wing extremism is a determining topic of political education at many school locations. Mostly, the...
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Pascal, Pascalberg, and friends
Pascal’s wager has to face the many gods objection. The wager goes wrong when it asks us to chose between Christianity and atheism, as if there are...
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Conceptual limitations, puzzlement, and epistemic dilemmas
Conceptual limitations restrict our epistemic options. One cannot believe, disbelieve, or doubt what one cannot grasp. I show how, even granting an...
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The Theism-Atheism Dialectic
This chapter looks at the effort Shaw and Ricoeur make to provide moderns who reject otherworldly religion, but nonetheless seek the numinous, with a...
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Issues of Violence
Following the 9/11 attacks, Americans were asking why they happened and why there is so much anti-American hostility. Though Americans’ views of the...
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God, Creation, and the Biblical Moral Order
Christian belief in the afterlife depends essentially on the biblical God and the critical importance of living in kee** with his moral law. This...
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Epistemic norms on evidence-gathering
In this paper, we argue that there are epistemic norms on evidence-gathering and consider consequences for how to understand epistemic normativity....
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The collective epistemic reasons of social-identity groups
In this paper, I argue that certain social-identity groups—ones that involve systematic relations of power and oppression—have distinctive epistemic...
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Standing to epistemically blame
A plausible condition on having the standing to blame someone is that the target of blame's wrongdoing must in some sense be your “business”—the...
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Honest Errors in Combat Decision-Making: State of Our Knowledge 75 Years after the Hostage Case
Seventy-five years have passed since Hostage, a post-World War II case in which Lothar Rendulic was acquitted of Northern Norway’s devastation and...
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Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo (354–430 CE) is a towering figure in the history of Western moral, social, political, and legal thought. He was arguably the most...
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‘This Is to Enrage You’
The fundamental utility of rage as a motivator for early AIDS activists is contrasted with the double silencing marking ethnomusicology’s...