How To Think About Belief In God - Final Lecture - Evidential Case for Islamic Theism

This course aims to introduce students of philosophy, theology, and Islam more generally, to a contemporary philosophical overview of religious epistemology in the context of thinking about the Islamic theistic tradition. It does so by providing an accessible gateway into the philosophical discipline of epistemology in general and religious epistemology in particular. By drawing on key concepts within contemporary epistemology, the course aims to guide students through thinking about important epistemological ideas that relate to Islamic theistic belief.
Lecture 5: An Evidential Case for Islamic Theism
00:06:05 Rationality, Explanation and Cumulative Case
00:23:55 Theism and Atheism
00:48:23 Islamic Theism and Atheism
01:00:00 Q/A
Guest
Jamie B. Turner is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Philosophy of Religion, University of Birmingham. His doctoral research focuses on the medieval Muslim theologian Ibn Taymiyya and his model of natural theology. Jamie’s broader interests are in the philosophy of religion, religious epistemology, and Islamic theology. He has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters including, “An Islamic Account of Reformed Epistemology” (2021), “Ibn Taymiyya on theistic signs and knowledge of God” (2021), and “Islamic Religious Epistemology” (with Enis Doko) in the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology (2023).
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