Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
A 3-year philosophy research project at Oxford (2012-2015), comprised of the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, 7 postdoctoral research fellows, 1 PhD student, and 22 visiting research fellows: aiming to make a lasting impact on epistemology and philosophy of religion. The project will include 9 public lectures, 4 roundtable discussions, 6 workshops, and 1 major international conference.
07/05/2024
New book “Knowledge and God” by Matthew Benton, free to download through May 20:
Knowledge and God Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Knowledge and God
22/12/2023
New book from Max Baker-Hytch, free to download until 5 January:
God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Religion - God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity
02/09/2021
A new volume coming out co-edited by a former New Insights fellow...
Religious Disagreement and Pluralism Epistemological questions about the significance of disagreement have advanced alongside broader developments in social epistemology concerning testimony, the nature of expertise and epistemic authority, the role of institutions, group belief, and epistemic injustice, among others. During this perio...
15/06/2021
New special issue edited by former project fellow Billy Dunaway and Jon McGinnis (UMSL), on Islamic Philosophy and Contemporary Philosophy of Religion. Some great papers on religious epistemology in here.
09/04/2020
Ben Page (Durham) has been making fantastic videos explaining issues in religious epistemology and philosophy of religion (even citing some of the publications of the New Insights project fellows)!
Video links here; project papers relevant to these videos linked in the comments.
https://youtu.be/RNQeOJoeiW0
https://youtu.be/4zlaFnYqGYo
https://youtu.be/EiYcUJEJEUk
How to Think About Probability Visually - The Bayesian Bar In this video I share with you a useful visual tool that I learned from the philosopher John Hawthorne for thinking about probabilistic reasoning, called the...
10/06/2019
A forthcoming new volume of essays co-edited by one of our former fellows, Dani Rabinowitz. Congratulations, Dani!
Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age Since the classical period, Jewish scholars have drawn on developments in philosophy to enrich our understanding of Judaism. This methodology reached its pinnacle in the medieval period with figures like Maimonides and continued into the modern period with the likes of Rosenzweig.
26/02/2019
Here is a new grant of interest, co-led by one of our former New Insights fellows, Billy Dunaway. (Congratulations, Billy!)
The Christian West and Islamic East: Theology, Science, and Knowledge - John Templeton Foundation Usted está viendo Templeton.org en español. Tenga en cuenta que solamente hemos traducido algunas páginas a su idioma. El resto permanecen en inglés.
13/02/2019
Excellent review by Andrew Moon of our edited volume, *Knowledge, Belief, and God,* in Faith & Philosophy (which is now open access!). https://place.asburyseminary.edu/faithandphilosophy/vol36/iss1/7/
Other recent reviews linked in the comments below...
Matthew A. Benton, John Hawthorne, and Dani Rabinowitz, eds., KNOWLEDGE, BELIEF, AND GOD: NEW INSIGHTS IN RELIGIOUS EPISTEMOLOGY By Andrew Moon, Published on 01/01/19
04/10/2018
Another good review of our volume, by T. Ryan Byerly at Univ of Sheffield, in NDPR:
Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews is an electronic, peer-reviewed journal that publishes timely reviews of scholarly philosophy books.
07/08/2018
First review out of our edited volume, by Jerome Gellman:
Knowledge, Belief, and God | Reading Religion Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology, edited by Matthew A. Benton, John Hawthorne, and Dani Rabinowitz, is not “philosophy for dummies.” It is for advanced analytic philosophers with full knowledge of probability theory and of transfinite set-theory. This collection...
07/08/2018
A new paper by one of our former New Insights fellows, Matthew Benton, just out in Res Philosophica. Other articles of interest in this special issue, on New Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion, include one by our project visitor in 2014, Robert Pasnau (see 2nd link for all articles of the special issue).
https://www.pdcnet.org/resphilosophica/content/resphilosophica_2018_0095_0003_0421_0447
https://www.pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=resphilosophica&fq=resphilosophica%2FVolume%2F8905%7C95%2F8997%7CIssue%3A+3%2F
God and Interpersonal Knowledge - Volume 95, Issue 3, July 2018 Recent epistemology offers an account of what it is to know other persons. Such an approach holds promise for illuminating several issues in philosophy of religion, and for advancing a distinctive approach to religious epistemology. This paper develops an account of interpersonal knowledge and clari...