RT Article
T1 Desiderata for Rational, Non-doxastic Faith
JF Sophia
VO 61
IS 3
SP 499
OP 519
A1 Palmqvist, Carl-Johan
LA English
PB Springer Netherlands
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1817423959
AB According to an increasingly popular view known as non-doxasticism, religious faith need not include belief, but only some cognitively weaker attitude. This view comes with great promises, as it offers a way for the agnostic to partake in religion. My concern is how such a non-doxastic faith might be understood as a rational attitude. I offer three desiderata for any account of rational, non-doxastic faith. These desiderata are based on general considerations regarding epistemic rationality and on major themes from current literature on the closely related notions of trust and hope. The first desideratum states that faith must be able to meet the demands of reason. The second requires, perhaps surprisingly, that faith should not imply trust. The third requires that faith should imply hope while excluding despair. I show how several prominent accounts of non-doxastic faith, by Lara Buchak, Daniel Howard-Snyder and Daniel McKaughan, all fail to meet at least one of these desiderata. I also suggest that the desiderata should make us prefer a reconstructive methodology.
K1 Agnosticism
K1 Faith
K1 Hope
K1 Non-doxastic religion
K1 Rationality
K1 Trust
DO 10.1007/s11841-021-00862-4