Daniel Howard‐snyder
Biographic Data
| ID | 998720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Howard‐snyder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Howard‐snyder |
| SIGNATURE | SNYDER D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6912-3875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Theorizing about Christian faith in God with John Bishop
We assess John Bishop's theory of the nature of Christian faith in God, as most recently expressed in ‘Reasonable Faith and Reasonable Fideism’, although we dip into other writings as well. We explain several concerns we have about it. However, in the end, our reflections lead us to propose a modified theory, one that avoids our concerns while remaining consonant with some of his guiding thoughts about the nature of Christian faith in God. We als…
Normative appraisals of faith in God
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How Does Trust Relate to Faith
How does trust relate to faith? We do not know of a theory-neutral way to answer our question. So, we begin with what we regard as a plausible theory of faith according to which, in slogan form, faith is resilient reliance. Next, we turn to contemporary theories of trust. They are not of one voice. Still, we can use them to indicate ways in which trust and faith might both differ from and resemble each other. This is what we do. Along the way, we…
Faith and resilience
Theorizing about faith and faithfulness with Jonathan Kvanvig
What are faith and faithfulness, and how are they related? We consider two views that express very different answers to these questions. On our view, faith and faithfulness are distinct and yet complement each other. Faith is resilient reliance and faithfulness is resilient reliability, both of which involve conative and/or affective elements. In contrast, while Jonathan Kvanvig also holds that faith involves conative and/or affective elements, h…
Theorizing about faith with Lara Buchak
What is faith? Lara Buchak has done as much as anyone recently to answer this question in a sensible and instructive fashion. As it turns out, her writings reveal two theories of faith, an early one and a later one – or two versions of the same one if you like. In what follows, we aim to assess those theories with an eye to highlighting both their good- and bad-making features, marking choice points for theorizing about faith along the way, and d…
Trust in God
Until recently, psychologists have conceptualised and studied trust in God (TIG) largely in isolation from contemporary work in theology, philosophy, history, and biblical studies that has examined the topic with increasing clarity. In this article, we first review the primary ways that psychologists have conceptualised and measured TIG. Then, we draw on conceptualizations of TIG outside the psychology of religion to provide a conceptual map for …
Can fictionalists have faith? It all depends
Can fictionalists have faith? It all depends on how we disambiguate ‘fictionalists’ and on what faith is. I consider the matter in light of my own theory. After clarifying its central terms, I distinguish two fictionalists – atheistic and agnostic – and I argue that, even though no atheistic fictionalist can have faith on my theory, agnostic fictionalists arguably can. After rejecting Finlay Malcolm's reasons for thinking this is a problem, I use…
Pistis , fides , and propositional belief
In my contribution to the symposium on Teresa Morgan's Roman Faith and Christian Faith , I set the stage for three questions. First, in the Graeco-Roman view, when you put/maintain faith in someone, is the cognitive aspect of your faith compatible with scepticism about the relevant propositions? Second, did some of the New Testament authors think that one could put/maintain faith in God while being sceptical about the relevant propositions? Third…
Panmetaphoricism
Panmetaphoricism is the view that our speech about God can only be metaphorical. In this article, I do not assess the reasons that have been given for it; rather, I aim to understand what it says and, thereby, to gain a clearer view of the God it offers
Intellectual Humility
Schellenberg on propositional faith
This article assesses J. L. Schellenberg's account of propositional faith and, in light of that assessment, sketches an alternative that avoids certain objections and coheres better with Schellenberg's aims
God and Inscrutable Evil
God and Inscrutable Evil
Book Review| October 01 2000 God and Inscrutable Evil: In Defense of Theism and Atheism GOD AND INSCRUTABLE EVIL: IN DEFENSE OF THEISM AND ATHEISM. By David O'Connor. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Pp. xiii, 273. Daniel Howard-Snyder Daniel Howard-Snyder Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 617–621. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-4-617 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twit…
The Evidential Argument from Evil
God without the Supernatural
Are Beliefs About God Theoretical Beliefs? Reflections on Aquinas and Kant
The need to address our question arises from two sources, one in Kant and the other in a certain type of response to so-called Reformed epistemology. The first source consists in a tendency to distinguish theoretical beliefs from practical beliefs (commitments to the world's being a certain way versus commitments to certain pictures to live by), and to treat theistic belief as mere practical belief. We trace this tendency in Kant's corpus, and co…
God, Schmod and Gratuitous Evil
It is common these days for theists to argue that we aren't justified in believing atheism on the basis of evil.They claim that neither facts about particular horrors nor more holistic considerations pertaining to the magnitude, kinds and distribution of evil can ground atheism since we can't tell whether any evil is gratuitous. 1 In this paper we explore a novel strategy for shedding light on these issues: we compare the atheist who claims that …
God, Schmod and Gratuitous Evil
It is common these days for theists to argue that we aren't justified in believing atheism on the basis of evil.They claim that neither facts about particular horrors nor more holistic considerations pertaining to the magnitude, kinds and distribution of evil can ground atheism since we can't tell whether any evil is gratuitous. 1 In this paper we explore a novel strategy for shedding light on these issues: we compare the atheist who claims that …
Are Beliefs About God Theoretical Beliefs? Reflections on Aquinas and Kant
The need to address our question arises from two sources, one in Kant and the other in a certain type of response to so-called Reformed epistemology. The first source consists in a tendency to distinguish theoretical beliefs from practical beliefs (commitments to the world's being a certain way versus commitments to certain pictures to live by), and to treat theistic belief as mere practical belief. We trace this tendency in Kant's corpus, and co…
The Evidential Argument from Evil
God without the Supernatural
God and Inscrutable Evil
God and Inscrutable Evil
Book Review| October 01 2000 God and Inscrutable Evil: In Defense of Theism and Atheism GOD AND INSCRUTABLE EVIL: IN DEFENSE OF THEISM AND ATHEISM. By David O'Connor. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Pp. xiii, 273. Daniel Howard-Snyder Daniel Howard-Snyder Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (4): 617–621. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-4-617 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twit…
Schellenberg on propositional faith
This article assesses J. L. Schellenberg's account of propositional faith and, in light of that assessment, sketches an alternative that avoids certain objections and coheres better with Schellenberg's aims
Intellectual Humility
Panmetaphoricism
Panmetaphoricism is the view that our speech about God can only be metaphorical. In this article, I do not assess the reasons that have been given for it; rather, I aim to understand what it says and, thereby, to gain a clearer view of the God it offers
Pistis , fides , and propositional belief
In my contribution to the symposium on Teresa Morgan's Roman Faith and Christian Faith , I set the stage for three questions. First, in the Graeco-Roman view, when you put/maintain faith in someone, is the cognitive aspect of your faith compatible with scepticism about the relevant propositions? Second, did some of the New Testament authors think that one could put/maintain faith in God while being sceptical about the relevant propositions? Third…
Can fictionalists have faith? It all depends
Can fictionalists have faith? It all depends on how we disambiguate ‘fictionalists’ and on what faith is. I consider the matter in light of my own theory. After clarifying its central terms, I distinguish two fictionalists – atheistic and agnostic – and I argue that, even though no atheistic fictionalist can have faith on my theory, agnostic fictionalists arguably can. After rejecting Finlay Malcolm's reasons for thinking this is a problem, I use…
Trust in God
Until recently, psychologists have conceptualised and studied trust in God (TIG) largely in isolation from contemporary work in theology, philosophy, history, and biblical studies that has examined the topic with increasing clarity. In this article, we first review the primary ways that psychologists have conceptualised and measured TIG. Then, we draw on conceptualizations of TIG outside the psychology of religion to provide a conceptual map for …
How Does Trust Relate to Faith
How does trust relate to faith? We do not know of a theory-neutral way to answer our question. So, we begin with what we regard as a plausible theory of faith according to which, in slogan form, faith is resilient reliance. Next, we turn to contemporary theories of trust. They are not of one voice. Still, we can use them to indicate ways in which trust and faith might both differ from and resemble each other. This is what we do. Along the way, we…
Faith and resilience
Theorizing about faith and faithfulness with Jonathan Kvanvig
What are faith and faithfulness, and how are they related? We consider two views that express very different answers to these questions. On our view, faith and faithfulness are distinct and yet complement each other. Faith is resilient reliance and faithfulness is resilient reliability, both of which involve conative and/or affective elements. In contrast, while Jonathan Kvanvig also holds that faith involves conative and/or affective elements, h…
Theorizing about faith with Lara Buchak
What is faith? Lara Buchak has done as much as anyone recently to answer this question in a sensible and instructive fashion. As it turns out, her writings reveal two theories of faith, an early one and a later one – or two versions of the same one if you like. In what follows, we aim to assess those theories with an eye to highlighting both their good- and bad-making features, marking choice points for theorizing about faith along the way, and d…
Theorizing about Christian faith in God with John Bishop
We assess John Bishop's theory of the nature of Christian faith in God, as most recently expressed in ‘Reasonable Faith and Reasonable Fideism’, although we dip into other writings as well. We explain several concerns we have about it. However, in the end, our reflections lead us to propose a modified theory, one that avoids our concerns while remaining consonant with some of his guiding thoughts about the nature of Christian faith in God. We als…
Normative appraisals of faith in God
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Philosophy (17 works) · Epistemology (15 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (11 works) · Faith (10 works) · Theology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Theism (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)