Can Religious Disagreement Reduce the Justification and Rationality of our Beliefs?

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Abdollahi, Jalal | 2020

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 52924 (42)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Philosophy of Science
Advisor(s): Taheri, Ali
Abstract:
It is undeniable that there is a great disagreement in the every field of religion. Reductionists argue that awareness of disagreements reduces the justification and rationality of beliefs, including religious beliefs. In contrast, non-reductionists believe that while reductionism may be true in other domains, it is not necessarily true in religion, because religious beliefs have characteristics that can deny a reductionist argument. They are in the realm of religion. In this thesis, I will discuss issues related to those characteristics that can deny reductionist argument in the realm of religion. In this thesis, I try to show that the arguments and responses presented in defense of the position of reductionism in the realm of religion have some difficults and those argument can not reduce the level of justification of our religious beliefs
Keywords:
Religious Experience ; Incommensurability ; Religious Disagreement ; Epistemic Peer ; Reductionism

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