Booth, Anthony Robert: Islamic Philosophy and the Ethics of Belief (E-Book)

<p>In this bookthe author argues that the&nbsp;<i>Falasifa</i>,the Philosophers of the Islamic Golden Age, are usefully interpreted throughthe prism of the contemporary, western ethics of belief. He contends that theirposition amounts to what he calls Moderate Evidentialism that only for theepistemic elite what one ought to believe is determined by ones evidence. Theauthor makes the case that the Falasifas position is well argued, ingeniouslycircumvents issues in the epistemology of testimony, and is well worth takingseriously in the contemporary debate. He reasons that this is especially thecase since&nbsp;the position has salutary consequences for how to respond tothe sceptic, and for how we are to conceive of extremist belief.</p>

Anthony Robert Boothis Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, UK. He also works for Trusting Banks, a NWO (DutchScience Foundation) funded collaboration between the Universities of Groningen,the Netherlands, and Cambridge, UK. He has worked mainly on issues at theintersection of ethics and epistemology, and has published articles appearingin such journals as Journal ofPhilosophy, Philosophy andPhenomenological Research and Synthese. He alsoco-edited Intuitions (2014).