TY - JOUR ID - 74565 TI - The Rejection of the Belief in the Existence of God and the Different Solution Offered by Virtue-based Epistemology JO - Philosophy of Religion JA - JPHT LA - en SN - 2008-7063 AU - Fakhar Noghani, Saeedeh AD - Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Almustafa International University, Mashhad Branch, Mashhad, Iran Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 213 EP - 234 KW - Virtue-based Epistemology KW - Epistemic Trust KW - Authoritativeness of religious beliefs KW - Zagzebski DO - 10.22059/jpht.2020.285055.1005680 N2 - The intelligibility of the belief in the existence of God is the most important issue in religious epistemology. Zagzebski’s conception of virtue-based epistemology both criticizes the externalist and individualist viewpoints of reformed epistemology and emphasizes the voluntariness of the belief and its influence by the community. In this stance, the authoritativeness of the religious belief is explained based on the virtue of “epistemic trust” on oneself and other members of the epistemic community. Therefore, the believers’ belief in the existence of God at different times and places can be the basis of the authoritativeness of one’s belief in the existence of God. This issue has been explained via an argumentation that indicates the superiority of epistemic universality over epistemic self-determinism and epistemic self-centrism. UR - https://jpht.ut.ac.ir/article_74565.html L1 - https://jpht.ut.ac.ir/article_74565_2a57b22b1e08dbb0d6f4a83098e05374.pdf ER -