PPT-The Epistemology of Doubt

Travis Dickinson Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary travdickinson wwwtravisdickinsoncom These slides can be found at wwwtravisdickinsoncom Do you fly Making your faith your own. The history of epistemology however can in large part be read as a histor y of trying to establish that there is a necessary connection between the answers to these two questions A traditional view is that justified beliefs are ones arrived at usi n Blank Slate vs. Hard Wired. When we come into the world at birth, the mind is like a blank tablet. . Or. Some ideas are directly known by the mind and are not learned from experience: a. the laws of logic; b. the basic principles of mathematics; c. cause/effect; d. concept of perfection; e. idea of God; f. moral concepts.. A service LetŽ may be called by either player/team. Foot faults may only be called by an Official either allocated for that purpose or a person performing a Chair Umpire function. Player 13.2 Subjunctive with verbs of doubt or denial. Whenever a sentence express . doubt or denial . in the main clause, the . subjunctive. will be used the subordinate clause because it implies uncertainty.. How . to . doubt and have faith without exploding. Travis M. Dickinson. Doubting. Do you fly?. Doubting. Doubting. Typical prescription for doubt. Wait it out. Treat symptoms as best you can. Hope it goes away. Christian Epistemology. How does a Christian come to know truth?. Question. What questions are postmoderns asking?. Christian Epistemology. Modernist Objections to Christianity. . What about all the contradictions? . nd. , 2010. Reminiscences. Abner. . Shimony. BASIC THESES OF NATURALISTIC EPISTEMOLOGY. . (a) Human beings, including their cognitive faculties, are entities in Nature. . (b) The laws governing Nature have with great success been explored by the natural sciences.. A service LetŽ may be called by either player/team. Foot faults may only be called by an Official either allocated for that purpose or a person performing a Chair Umpire function. Player ODOM & DAVIS. Criminal Defense Attorneys. Wendell A. Odom, Jr.. Neal Davis, III. Brian T. Hobson. Office Location. The Lyric Centre. 440 Louisiana Street, Suite 200. Houston, Texas 77002. History of . By the end of Chapter 2 we had made it to 1840 with the discovery of stellar parallax and correspondingly ridiculously large distances to the stars.. At this point, it is useful to introduce a device, similar to the Evil Genius device of Descartes, known as the Random Alien Test (or RAT). Under the RAT device, an alien spontaneously appears and asks random planetary inhabitants basic knowledge questions about the Universe that any "intelligent civilization" would know. So, in 1840 the RAT question would be:. PHILIP KITCHER. A MELIORATIVE VENTURE. PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE HAVE THE GOAL OF MAKING INQUIRY GO BETTER.. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR INQUIRY TO GO BETTER?. A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY VERSION. “WE MUST AVOID THE CATASTROPHE OF THE PAST TWO MILLENNIA.”. Two myths about doubt. A fundamental approach to take toward our doubts. The main cause of our doubts. The kinds of doubt we have. When in doubt.... Doubting God's love or goodness. Four Major Areas of Doubt. When we ‘naturalize’ something we bring it into the realm of space and time.. Approaches to human knowledge that emphasize abstract, necessary principles (Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, for example) lead to skepticism that undercuts empirical science (science about things and events in space and time … notably, things like scientific studies of our cognitive abilities).. Dr. William Eggington. Brigham Young University. This presentation begins by assuming that linguistic ways of knowing, analyzing and sharing lead to similar, but unique, positive outcomes. Students trained in linguistic epistemologies, or ways of knowing and thinking, develop valuable abilities that greatly enhance essential life-skills and opportunities for career, personal and interpersonal success. I will review the research related to the development of science and mathematics epistemologies for pedagogical purposes in an effort to develop a model that could be applied to linguistic epistemologies. This will be followed by a critique of the previous, decidedly sparse, work conducted in developing an epistemology of linguistics for pedagogical purposes. I will compare and contrast this work with the proposed model and conclude by suggesting a developmental agenda for linguistic pedagogical practice based upon, not only what we want our students to know about language, but also how we would like them to think about how language functions..