Din ve Felsefe Araştırmaları

Yazarlar: Musa YANIK

Konular:Din Bilimi, Felsefe

Anahtar Kelimeler:Justification,Reliabilism,Externalism,Alvin Plantinga,Epistemology

Özet: The reliabilist theory of knowledge finds itself a place in contemporary epistemic justification theories as a type of externalist theory. Briefly, this approach, which argues that what justifies a belief is the reliability of the process in which that belief is formed, takes place in an externalist position in which it links these cognitive processes to non-subject elements. The internalist knowledge theory, which is at the opposite position of this theory of knowledge, suggests that with a subject-centered approach, the method that will justify true belief can be reached as a result of certain cognitive processes, based on one's own mental structure. These two theories of knowledge, which are included in many discussions within the epistemic justification theories, have opened the door to many different theories. Here are examples of theories such as access internalism, awareness internalism that arise from the internalist knowledge theory, and different types of theories arising from the externalist knowledge theory, such as process reliability, indicator reliability and virtue reliability. On the other hand, these debates in contemporary epistemology have found a place in religious epistemology as well. In particular, Alvin Plantinga exhibited an externalist attitude in his religious epistemology and tried to reveal the epistemic nature of the belief in God with a credible understanding in his recent works. In this article, we will first try to deal with externalism and its kind of reliable knowledge understanding and criticisms brought to these theories, then we will explain the concept of warrant, which determines the direction of A. Plantinga's recent religious epistemology, and question its applicability to all theist religions.

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