Practical and Epistemic Justification in Alston’s "Perceiving God"

Turri, J. (2008). Practical and epistemic justification in Alston's Perceiving God. Faith and Philosophy, 25(3), 290–299.

This paper clarifies and evaluates a central premise of William Alston’s argument in Perceiving God. The premise in question: if it is practically rational to engage in a doxastic practice, then it is epistemically rational to suppose that said practice is reliable. This premise is false, and without it Alston’s main argument fails.