Rational Faith: How Faith Construed as Trust Does, and Does Not, Go Beyond Our Evidence

The Monist 106 (1):72-82 (2023)
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Abstract

I argue that faith is a type of trust. It is also part of a relationship in which both parties are called on to be faithful, where faithfulness is a type of trustworthiness. What distinguishes faith relationships from trust relationships is that both parties value the faith relationship intrinsically. I discuss how faith on this account can, and cannot, be rational when it goes beyond a person’s evidence. It turns out that faith has the same rationality conditions as trust, differing from it only in the cases that fix our intuitions.

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