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An important message of this book is that theology has neglected the philosophy of mind and perception for too long.2 The way we conceive the mind and its relation to the world crucially affects how we frame epistemological issues, and epistemological issues have figured very importantly in modern theology as a result of the Enlightenment criticism of the very idea of a ‘science of God’. In this book I will defend an idea that has been largely dismissed by modern theology, viz. that knowledge of a creator is available on the basis of observations of nature. Given a rejection of the Cartesian picture of the mind and the adoption of the ‘Open Mind’ (OM) view, there is a way of explicating this traditional idea which, I will argue, makes it very feasible.
By sacrificing something in self-knowledge to the sceptic, we stand to gain far more in knowledge of the world.1
Timothy Williamson
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Wahlberg, M. (2012). Perceptual Evidence. In: Reshaping Natural Theology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230393141_4
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