Disciplina de Epistemologia Analítica da Religião

Prof. Dr. Agnaldo Cuoco Portugal

Filosofia Analítica da Religião: Desafios e Respostas

1) Objetivo

Introduzir o estudante aos principais desenvolvimentos da filosofia

analítica da religião a partir dos desafios apresentados pelo naturalismo

metafísico à crença teísta e das respostas dadas a estes pelas diferentes

abordagens que fazem parte dessa linha da filosofia contemporânea,

especialmente a epistemologia reformada de Alvin Plantinga.

2) Método

Aulas expositivas, abertas a ampla participação dos estudantes.

Leitura crítica de textos relevantes para o assunto.

3) Avaliação

A avaliação se dará com base em um seminário, no qual o

estudante deverá apresentar o conteúdo de um dos textos do curso, e

uma monografia final em formato de artigo, de 12 páginas no mínimo,

sobre algum dos temas desenvolvidos em aula.

4) Conteúdo Programático

1. A crítica neo-empirista da religião. A. Ayer, A. Flew, Bertrand

Russell, J. Mackie

2. Wittgenstein e os wittgensteinianos: N. Malcolm, P. Winch e D. Z.

Phillips

3) Experiência religiosa e teologia natural: W. Alston e R. Swinburne

3) A epistemologia reformada de A. Plantinga

4) Críticas à epistemologia reformada: M. Martin, L. Zagzebski, R.

Swinburne, M. Tooley.

5) Cronograma (o número dos textos se refere à bibliografia)

Cronograma

08/03/16 - Apresentação, introdução geral

15/03/16 – Texto 1

17/03/16 – Texto 2

22/03/16 – Texto 3

24/03/16 – Texto 4

29/03/16 – Texto 5

31/03/16 – Texto 6

05/04/16 – Texto 7

07/04/16 – Texto 8

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12/04/16 – Texto 9

14/04/16 – Texto 10

19/04/16 – Texto 11

26/04/16 – Texto 12

28/04/16 – Texto 13

03/05/16 – Texto 14

05/05/16 – Texto 15

10/05/16 – Texto 16

12/05/16 – Texto 16

17/05/16 – Texto 17

19/05/16 – Texto 18

24/05/16 – Texto 19

31/05/16 – Texto 19

02/06/16 – Texto 20

07/06/16 – Texto 21

09/06/16 – Texto 22

14/06/16 – Texto 23

16/06/16 – Texto 24

21/06/16 – Texto 25

23/06/16 – Texto 26

28/06/16 – Texto 27

30/06/16 – Texto 27

5) Bibliografia (por ordem de uso no cronograma do curso):

1. HASKER, William. Analytic philosophy of religion, in: WAINWRIGHT,

William (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion. Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 2005.

2. RUSSELL, Bertrand. Why I am not a Christian, in EDWARDS, Paul (ed.)

Why I am not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related

Subjects. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1957.

3. AYER, Alfred Jules. Language, truth and logic. New York: Dover

Publications, 1952. Pp. 31-32, 102-120.

4. FLEW, Antony. The presumption of atheism, in: GEIVETT, R. &

SWEETMAN, B. Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. 19-32.

5. MACKIE, John. ‘Evil and Omnipotence’ Mind, New Series, Vol. 64, No.

254, 1955. Pp. 200-212.

6. WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Lectures on religious belief, in: Lectures and

Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief. Oxford:

Blackwell, 1966. Pp. 53-72.

7. MALCOLM, Norman. Four analogies, in: Wittgenstein: a Religious Point

of View? Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. 84-92.

8. WINCH, Peter. Discussion of Malcolm’s essay, in: MALCOLM, Norman.

Wittgenstein: a Religious Point of View? Ithaca, NY: Cornell University

Press, 1994. Pp. 95-135.

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9. PHILLIPS, D. Z. Religious beliefs and language games, in: Wittgenstein

and Religion. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. 56-78.

10. PHILLIPS, D. Z. On not understanding God, in: Wittgenstein and

Religion. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. 153-170.

11. ALSTON, William. Religious experience and religious belief. In: GEIVETT,

R. & SWEETMAN, B. Contemporary Perspectives on Religious

Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. 295-303.

12. ALSTON, William. The Christian Mystical Perceptual Doxastic Practice

(CMP). In: Perceiving God – The Epistemology of Religious Experience.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. 184-225.

13. SWINBURNE, Richard. The Intrinsic Probability of Theism. In: The

Existence of God – Second Edition. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Pp. 93-109.

14. SWINBURNE, Richard. The Explanatory Power of Theism. In: The

Existence of God – Second Edition. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Pp. 110-132.

15. SWINBURNE, Richard. The nature of faith. In: Faith and Reason –

Second Edition. Oxford: OUP, 2005. Pp.137-158.

16. PLANTINGA, Alvin. Other minds and analogy. Alternatives to the

analogical position. God and analogy. In: God and Other Minds – A

Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God. Ithaca, NY: Cornell

University Press, 1990 [1967]. Pp. 187-271.

17. PLANTINGA, Alvin. God, evil and the metaphysics of freedom. In: The

Nature of Necessity. Oxford: OUP, 1974. Pp. 164-196.

18. PLANTINGA, Alvin. God and necessity. In: The Nature of Necessity.

Oxford: OUP, 1974. Pp. 197-221.

19. PLANTINGA, Alvin. Reason and belief in God. In: PLANTINGA, A. &

WOLTERSTORFF, N. Faith and Rationality – Reason and Belief in God.

Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1983. Pp. 16-93.

20. PLANTINGA, Alvin. Justification and Theism. In: SENNETT, James (ed.)

The Analytic Theist – An Alvin Plantinga Reader. Grand Rapids, MI:

Eerdmans, 1998. Pp. 162-186.

21. PLANTINGA, Alvin. Warrant: a first approximation. In: Warrant and

Proper Function. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. 3-

20.

22. PLANTINGA, Alvin. Warranted belief in God. In: Warranted Christian

Belief. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 167-198.

23. PLANTINGA, Alvin. The evolutionary argument against naturalism. In:

Where the Conflict really Lies – Science, religion and naturalism.

Oxford: OUP, 2011. Pp. 307-349.

24. MARTIN, Michael. The argument from evil. In: Atheism – A

Philosophical Justification. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

Pp. 334-361.

25. ZAGZEBSKI, Linda. Religious knowledge and the virtues of the mind. In:

Rational Faith – Catholic Responses to Reformed Epistemology. Notre

Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993. Pp. 199-225.

26. SWINBURNE, Richard. Plantinga on Warrant. Religious Studies, 37(2),

2001. Pp. 203-214. PLANTINGA, Alvin. Rationality and Public Evidence:

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a reply to Richard Swinburne. Religious Studies, 37(2), 2001. Pp. 215-

222.

27. TOOLEY, Michael. Reply to Plantinga’s Opening Statement. Closing

Statement and Response to Plantinga’s Comments. In: TOOLEY, M. &

PLANTINGA, A. Knowledge of God. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. 184-

217; 233-248.

6) Atendimento

Terças-feiras, entre 19h30 e 20h50, no Departamento de Filosofia.

Horários alternativos podem ser combinados.