Steven M Duncan

The Priority of Faith Steven M Duncan

This is a collection of papers written over a ten-year period and posted to the Philpapers website discussing various aspects of the relation of faith and reason. In particular, it attempts to clarify the nature of reason and dispel certain false ideas about that nature. The author argues that a credible faith in reason as a tool of theoretical inquiry depends on presuppositions that require the existence of the God of the Philosophers to secure. He then argues, along lines presented by Alvin Plantinga and Paul Moser, that the Christian faith can be both doxastically warranted and (arguably) epistemically justificed for believers even if they cannot prove its truth by appeal to evidence available to all from the third-person point of view.