QUASI-FIDEISM AND SCEPTICAL FIDEISM

Abstract My interest is in the relationship between the contemporary account of the epistemology of religious belief, known as quasi-fideism, and the sceptical fideism that has been so important, historically, in motivating fideistic ideas.I argue that we can profitably construe quasi-fideism along sceptical superman headband fideist lines, in that it is a proposal that is naturally understood as both arising within the context of a sceptical investigation and as exhibiting core features that it shares with Pyrrhonian scepticism.Moreover, I suggest that sceptical fideism, properly rendered, chicago bears garden gnome is inclined towards the kind of restricted fideism that is essential to quasi-fideism.