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Omnisubjectivity as a Divine Attribute from Islamic Perspective

TheoLogica
The paper aims to demonstrate how the concept of omnisubjectivity can be drawn upon in an attempt to solve philosophical problems pertinent to the divine attribute of omniscience in the Islamic context.
Kemal Kikanovic, Enis Doko
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Infallible Divine Foreknowledge cannot Uniquely Threaten Human Freedom, but its Mechanics Might [PDF]

, 2012
It is not uncommon to think that the existence of exhaustive and infallible divine foreknowledge uniquely threatens the existence of human freedom. This paper shows that this cannot be so.
Byerly, T. Ryan
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Assertoric mindreading

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 1, Page 173-194, July 2025.
Abstract This essay offers an explanation of how assertions express that the speaker has a propositional attitude toward what's asserted. The explanation is that this feature of assertion is owed to a hearer's spontaneous mindreading. I call this the assertoric mindreading hypothesis.
Peter van Elswyk
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On the Interpretation of Scripture

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University
This article focuses on examining a particular method of Biblical Interpretation. This specific method is that of the Patristic Method of Biblical Interpretation, proposed by Richard Swinburne. The Patristic Method faces a specific issue, ‘the Authority’
Sijuwade Joshua
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The Social Virtue Of Blind Deference [PDF]

, 2015
Recently, it has become popular to account for knowledge and other epistemic states in terms of epistemic virtues. The present paper focuses on an epistemic virtue relevant when deferring to others in testimonial contexts.
Ahlstrom-Vij, Kristoffer
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Metaphysics of risk and luck

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 335-348, June 2025.
Abstract According to the modal account of luck it is a matter of luck that p if p is true at the actual world, but false in a wide‐range of nearby worlds. According to the modal account of risk, it is risky that p if p is true at some close world. I argue that the modal accounts of luck and risk do not mesh well together.
Jaakko Hirvelä
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Epistemic Egoism and the Protestant Uses of Tradition

TheoLogica
Although ecumenical dialogue has highlighted many commonalities between Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox, many issues still remain contentious.
Erkki Vesa Rope Kojonen
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Assertion and Testimony [PDF]

, 2020
[The version of this paper published by Oxford online in 2019 was not copy-edited and has some sense-obscuring typos. I have posted a corrected (but not the final published) version on this site.
Hinchman, Edward
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A modal theory of justification

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 1031-1045, May 2025.
Abstract This article develops a modal theory of justification, according to which a belief is justified if it is more possible that it amounts to knowledge than that it does not. The core of the theory is neutral between internalism and externalism and it solves two problems that extant modal accounts of justification suffer from.
Jaakko Hirvelä
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What's Wrong with Wishful Thinking? “Manifesting” as an Epistemic Vice

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 260-275, April 2025.
Abstract The popular trend of manifesting involves supposedly making something happen by imagining it and consciously thinking it will happen in order to will it into existence. In this paper Laura D'Olimpio explains why manifesting is a form of wishful thinking and argues that it is an epistemic vice. She describes how such wishful thinking generally,
Laura D'Olimpio
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