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An Interview on Epistemic Foundationalism

February 10, 2022 by Randal

My latest interview, an epistemological dialogue on the Christian evidentialism YouTube channel: ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemology, externalism, foundationalism, interview, moderate foundationalism

Are there sufficient reasons to believe in God? My Opening Statement

November 2, 2020 by Randal

In May, 2020, I participated in a debate on this question: Are there sufficient reasons to believe in God? My debate partner Sam and I divvied up the labor as follows: I argued that there are sufficient ‘reasons’ (i.e. properly basic grounds) to believe in God. Meanwhile, Sam argued that there are sufficient non-basic reasons […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemology, foundationalism, properly basic, rationality, theism

Why I Don’t Talk About the Sensus Divinitatis When I Talk About Belief in God

June 7, 2020 by Randal

Alvin Plantinga famously appeals to the existence of a sensus divinitatis, a “sense of the divine”, as the cognitive faculty by which one can form justified and rational belief in God apart from evidence. In this video, I explain why I prefer to argue for properly basic belief in God by way of the more […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alvin Plantinga, apologetics, debate, epistemology, foundationalism, sensus divinitatis

God, Morality, and Knowledge: A Conversation with Eric Murphy

May 23, 2020 by Randal

This evening, I appeared on the personal YouTube channel for Eric Murphy of “Talk Heathen.” Though the original intent was to talk about moral arguments for God’s existence, we spent the bulk of our time talking about epistemology generally and moderate foundationalism in particular. But hey, that’s fine with me! It was a very enjoyable […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemology, Eric Murphy, foundationalism, interview, moral argument, proper basicality

Justin Schieber’s objections to the proper basicality of theism considered

April 24, 2015 by Randal

In my March 8th debate with Justin Schieber I offered three arguments, the first of which was concerned with defending the claim that belief in God can be properly basic. In his rebuttal Justin offered a couple arguments. I’m going to respond briefly to these two arguments here. Universal Sanction Objection Justin’s main rebuttal to my argument […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Christianity, epistemology, foundationalism, Justin Schieber, proper basicality, religious experience, theism

67. Justin Schieber on rationality and religious disagreement

April 7, 2015 by Randal

On March 7th and 8th of 2015, I had the privilege of taking the stage with atheist debater and broadcaster Justin Schieber for two events, a debate at the University of Alberta and a dialogue at Taylor Seminary. The following morning, March 9th, I drove Justin to the airport in Calgary. The three hour drive provided the rich opportunity for us […]

Filed Under: Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: defeater, epistemology, evidence, foundationalism, proper basicality, rationality

In defense of rational disagreement

March 31, 2015 by Randal

In the discussion thread to “66. Reformed Epistemology: A Conversation with Myron Penner” Mike D objected to Myron Penner’s description of Reformed epistemology because it supported the conclusion that “people who hold starkly antithetical beliefs can both claim to have formed them according to the criteria laid out by Penner.” In other words, two different […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: defeater, epistemology, foundationalism, justification, rationality, Reformed epistemology

“Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 8)

July 23, 2014 by Randal

Here begins the eighth installment of my incredibly expanding review of John Loftus’ book Why I Became an Atheist. For part seven click here. In this section I’ve decided to return to some unfinished business on page 44. On this page Loftus endorses a classical foundationalist epistemology. And what is that, exactly? According to foundationalism, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alvin Plantinga, epistemology, foundationalism, John Loftus, review, Why I became an Atheist

“Why I Became an Atheist”: A Review (Part 6)

July 22, 2014 by Randal

This is the sixth installment of my meandering review of John Loftus’ book Why I Became an Atheist. For part five click here. In this section I’m going to critique Loftus’ understanding and presentation of Alvin Plantinga’s epistemology in chapter 2. This section begins on page 44. Since I defended Plantinga’s epistemology in my PhD thesis […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alvin Plantinga, defeaters, epistemology, externalism, foundationalism, internalism, John Loftus

Voodoo and beyond: A response to Tyler Wunder

September 3, 2013 by Randal

In this article I offer a response to Tyler Wunder in “A Quick Response to Randal Rauser’s Critique of Universal Sanction (by Tyler Wunder)“. In his quick response Tyler offers two points. In my response I’ll focus on Wunder’s first point since it is, as I see it, the more substantive one. In my original […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemology, foundationalism, proper basicality, Tyler Wunder

A Second Quick Response to Randal Rauser’s Critique of Universal Sanction (by Tyler Wunder)

September 2, 2013 by Randal

Dr. Wunder added some further comments to “Must properly basic beliefs have universal sanction? A reply to James F. Sennett (Part 2)”. Given their length, clarity and quality, I have taken the liberty of adding them here to complement his guest post. It may be a couple days before I respond given the start of the semester tomorrow, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemology, foundationalism, proper basicality, reason, Tyler Wunder

A Quick Response to Randal Rauser’s Critique of Universal Sanction (by Tyler Wunder)

September 2, 2013 by Randal

In this guest post philosopher Tyler Wunder offers a response to my article “Must properly basic beliefs have universal sanction? A reply to James F. Sennett Part 2“. Dr. Wunder graduated with a PhD in philosophy from Boston University in 2007 with a dissertation on “Warrant and Religious Epistemology: A Critique of Alvin Plantinga’s Warrant […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alvin Plantinga, epistemology, foundationalism, proper basicality, rationality, Tyler Wunder

Must properly basic beliefs have universal sanction? A reply to James F. Sennett (Part 2)

August 26, 2013 by Randal

In “Must properly basic beliefs have universal sanction? A Reply to James F. Sennett (Part 1)” I introduced James F. Sennett’s paper “Direct Justification and Universal Sanction” and stated my intention to offer a critique of it. This is that (long overdue) critique. Let me state at the outset that I share a lot of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alvin Plantinga, epistemology, foundationalism, James Sennett, proper basicality, reason

Half-baked evidentialist epistemology

May 22, 2013 by Randal

Faithful readers of this blog will probably know that one of my readers, Jeff, has been criticizing my position that testimony can be a properly basic source of justified belief and knowledge (absent defeaters to the truth of the testimony). On Jeff’s view, testimony is always non-basic and is only rationally assented to based on […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemology, evidentialism, foundationalism

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