Action-Centered Faith, Doubt, and Rationality

Journal of Philosophical Research 41 (9999):71-90 (2016)
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Popular discussions of faith often assume that having faith is a form of believing on insufficient evidence and that having faith is therefore in some way rationally defective. Here I offer a characterization of action-centered faith and show that action-centered faith can be both epistemically and practically rational even under a wide variety of subpar evidential circumstances.

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