Volume 95, Issue 3, July 2018
New Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
Robert Pasnau
Pages 531-559
Belief in a Fallen World
In an ideal epistemic world, our beliefs would correspond to our evidence, and our evidence would be bountiful. In the world we live in, however, if we wish to live meaningful lives, other epistemic strategies are necessary. Here I attempt to work out, systematically, the ways in which evidentialism fails us as a guide to belief. This is so preeminently for lives of a religious character, but the point applies more broadly.