John Henry Newman and Contemporary Philosophy

Foreword Linda Zagzebski

Introduction Frederick D. Aquino and Joe Milburn

Part 1: Newman and the Story of Epistemology
1. Quasi-Fideism and Virtuous Anti-Evidentialism: Wittgenstein and Newman on Knowledge and Certainty Duncan Pritchard
2. Newman and Common Sense-Epistemology Frederick D. Aquino and Logan P. Gage
3. St. Newman: Plantingian or Pritchardian? Tyler Dalton McNabb and Michael DeVito

Part 2: Issues in Epistemology
4. Newman on the Indefectibility of Certitude: Prolegomena to Critical Appraisal Sean Kelsey
5. John Henry Newman, Dogmatism, and the Illative Sense Stephen R. Grimm
6. Newman and the Quest for Certainty in Modern Epistemology according to Robert Pasnau Luca F. Tuninetti

Part 3: Issues in Philosophy of Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Philosophy of Education
7. Newman’s Philosophical Habit of Mind as the Primary Epistemic End of Education: The Importance of Intellectual Flourishing Joe Milburn, Frederick D. Aquino, and Peter Distelzweig
8. Real Apprehension of God as Non-Propositional Knowledge Lorraine J. Keller
9. Affectivity and Religious Life: The Perspective of the Grammar of Assent Mark Wynn
10. A Reflection on “The God Faculty”: John Henry Newman in Conversation with the Cognitive Science of Religion Kegan J. Shaw
11. Losing Eden and Gaining a Conscience: Newman on Overcoming Spiritual Alienation Kirstin Carlson and David McPherson
12. Newman and the Four Aspects of Conscience John Cottingham

Afterword Lara Buchak

Biography

Frederick D. Aquino is Professor of Systematic Theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University (USA). His research interests are religious epistemology, John Henry Newman, Maximus the Confessor, and the philosophy of religion. His publications include Communities of Informed Judgment (CUS, 2004), An Integrative Habit of Mind (NIU, 2012), Receptions of Newman (co-edited with Benjamin J. King, Oxford, 2015), The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman (co-edited with Benjamin J. King, Oxford, 2017), The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology (with William J. Abraham, Oxford, 2018), and Perceiving Things Divine: Towards a Constructive Account of Spiritual Perception (co-edited with Paul Gavrilyuk, Oxford, 2022).

Joe Milburn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Navarra (Spain). His research interests include epistemology, philosophy of religion, and nineteenth-century philosophy. He is the co-editor, with Duncan Pritchard and Casey Doyle, of New Issues in Epistemological Disjunctivism (Routledge, 2019). His publications have also appeared in Metaphilosophy, Philosophies, Newman Studies Journal, Religious Studies, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, and Topoi.

“I think the volume is quite successful in achieving its aim and consequently highly recommend it … The contributors have done an excellent job of pulling out key ideas from Newman’s work, presenting those ideas in a manner that is accessible to a wide range of readers regardless of their prior Newman knowledge, and illustrating the relevance of those ideas to current work in the field.”

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