PHIL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Basic Belief, Theism, Foundationalism

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 110
• Professor: Colanter

Document Summary

Plantinga (properly basic) - religious belief without evidence. Plantinga outlines the position of the foundationalist-evidentialist as claiming that all justified beliefs must either: 1. be properly basic by fulfilling certain criteria, or. 2. be based on other beliefs that eventually result in a treelike construction with properly basic beliefs at the bottom or foundation. What about beliefs such as memory beliefs (for example, that i ate breakfast this morning), belief in an external world, and belief in other minds. These beliefs do not depend on other beliefs, yet neither are they self-evident, incorrigible (impossible not to believe), or evident to the senses. This fourteen-year-old boy theist, we may suppose, doesn"t believe on the basis of evidence he simply believes what he"s taught. [what] about a mature theist thomas aquinas, let"s say who thinks he does have adequate evidence?he has reflected long, hard, and conscientiously on the matter and thinks he does have adequate evidence .