Can We Believe Without Sufficient Evidence? The James/Clifford Quarrel and the Response of Alvin Plantinga

Modified Epistemology and Evidentalism

  Justification and religious rationality constitutes one of the main issues of religious epistemology and enjoys a special place to day in the philosophy of religion. In response to the justification of religious belief there are various approaches one of which is modified epistemology which is propounded by creation well – known philosophers such as Alvin plantinga, Nicolas walterstorf etc. ...

The Circularity of Evolutionary Reliabilism

p-Analog of the Semigroup Fourier-Steiltjes Algebras

In  this paper we define the $p$-analog of the restericted reperesentations and also the $p$-analog of the Fourier--Stieltjes algebras on the inverse semigroups . We improve some results about Herz algebras on Clifford semigroups. At the end of this paper we give the necessary and sufficient condition for amenability of these algebras on Clifford semigroups.

Plantinga’s Probability Arguments Against Evolutionary Naturalism

In Chapter 12 of Warrant and Proper Function, Alvin Plantinga constructs two arguments against evolutionary naturalism, which he construes as a conjunction E&N . The hypothesis E says that “human cognitive faculties arose by way of the mechanisms to which contemporary evolutionary thought directs our attention (p. 220).” With respect to proposition N , Plantinga (p. 270) says “it isn’t easy to ...

The James and von Neumann-Jordan type constants and uniform normal structure in Banach spaces

Recently, Takahashi has introduced the James and von Neumann-Jordan type constants. In this paper, we present some sufficient conditions for uniform normal structure and therefore the fixed point property of a Banach space in terms of the James and von Neumann-Jordan type constants and the Ptolemy constant. Our main results of the paper significantly generalize and improve many known results in...