Jean Buridan has offered a solution to the Liar Paradox, i.e., to the problem of assigning a truth-value to the sentence “What I am saying is false.” It has been argued that this solution is either 1) ad hoc since it would only apply to self-referencing sentences (Read 2002 ), or else 2) weakens his theory of truth, making his “a logic without truth” (Klima 2008, Dutilh Novaes 2011 ). Against 1...

Recent evolutionary accounts seek to explain religious belief and behavior in terms of native cognitive dispositions and culturally transmitted innovations that have persisted because they have adaptive value. Despite the often vitriolic evolutionreligion debate, new evolutionary theories typically avoid challenging the truth of religious beliefs. In this paper we do three things. (1) We descri...

In Defense of Proper Functionalism: Cognitive Science Takes on Swampman [Word Count: 6353] by Kenneth Boyce and Andrew Moon Abstract. According to proper functionalist theories of warrant, a belief is warranted only if it is formed by cognitive faculties that are properly functioning according to a good, truth-aimed design plan, one that is often thought to be specified either by intentional de...

Infallibilism is the view that a belief cannot be at once warranted and false. In this essay we assess three nonpartisan arguments for infallibilism, arguments that do not depend on a prior commitment to some substantive theory of warrant. Three premises, one from each argument, are most significant: (1) if a belief can be at once warranted and false, then the Gettier Problem cannot be solved; ...

In the following reflections on the understanding of truth in regard to Christian faith (or even in regard to religious faith, experience, and language in general), I advocate a relational interpretation of truth. Truth in that sense is understood not primarily as an intellectual assertion but as a qualification of a dynamic, existential, personal relation. Truth is the trustworthiness of that ...