Scepticism, Relativism, and Religious Knowledge' shows where responses to scepticism and relativism by Karl Barth and Reformed epistemology have led to impasses, and reconstructs their insights in a robust response that does not depend on making excessive claims about our epistemic capacities. This response is based on a nuanced conception of the relationship between trust, doubt, faith, and reason, and a Kierkegaardian perspective on religious knowledge that stresses the role of the will and the intellectual and theological virtues. This book will appeal to those with an interest in the...

About the Contributor(s): Michael G. Harvey holds a bachelor's degree in physics and astronomy (magna cum laude) from the University of Pittsburgh. He holds master's degrees in religion and philosophy from Yale University and Brown University, where he received Teaching and University Fellowships, respectively. He has also studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he received a Princeton Doctoral Fellowship. He has published in Religious Studies, The Journal of Religion, and the Routledge Major Work Religion and Science.

This SpringerBrief proposes a trust model motivated by virtue epistemology, addressing the need for a more efficient and flexible trust model for wireless next generation networks. This theory of trust simplifies the computation and communication overhead of strictly cognitive-computational models of trust. Both the advantages and the challenges of virtue-based trust models are discussed. This brief offers new research and a general theory of rationality that enables users to interpret trust and reason as complementary mechanisms that guide our rational conduct at two different epistemic...