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Paper   IPM / Philosophy / 15139
School of Analytic Philosophy
  Title:   Religious Diversity: The Cognitive Penetrability of Religious Perception,
  Author(s):  Hamid Vahid
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Faith and Philosophy
  No.:  2
  Vol.:  35
  Year:  2018
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
Philosophical responses to religious diversity range from outright rejection of divine reality to claims of religious pluralism. In this paper, I challenge those responses that take the problem of religious diversity to be merely an instance of the general problem of disagreement. To do so, I will take, as my starting point, William Alston’s treatment of the problems that religious diversity seems to pose for the rationality of theistic beliefs. My main aim is to highlight the cognitive penetrability of religious experience as a major source of such problems. I conclude by examining the consequences of cognitive penetration for the reliability of the monotheistic doxastic practice

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