Abstract
Alaistair Hannay has presented us a penetrating chapter on “Faith, History, and Approximation,” one that opens up a number of different issues on the topic. He centers his chapter on Soren Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript and what Hannay finds there about faith in regard to reasoning about the matter of approximation in knowledge. A major theme of the chapter is the examination of an article by Robert M. Adams. I agree with Hannay’s overall point against Adams on faith and “normal epistemic reasoning” that Adams has placed Kierkegaard’s ideas in the wrong framework and therefore misrepresented them. There are a few matters that come up at times that I would quibble with, but Hannay’s basic criticism of Adams is correct. Also, Adams represents that which in principle has been rather widespread in the last half of the twentieth century on Soren Kierkegaard, so that Hannay’s careful engagement with Adams has important yield for wider discussion.
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