This book is devoted to articulating the connections between the nature and value of faith and humility. The goal is to understand these two virtues in a way that does not discriminate between religious and secular. Jon Kvanvig claims that each provides a necessary, compensating balance to the potential downside of the other.

Jonathan L. Kvanvig is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, previously Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, having held previous faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame, Texas A&M University, and the University of Missouri. His scholarly activities focus in metaphysics & epistemology, philosophy of language and logic, and philosophy of religion, with more than 15 books and over 100 articles published.

• Introduction


• 1.: Faith Worth Having


• 2.: Cognitive versus Functional Accounts


• 3.: Non-Cognitive Accounts


• 4.: Dewey, Epistemic Fetishism, and Classical Theism


• 5.: Functional Faith in Religious Contexts


• 6.: Faith, Humility, and Virtues in Isolation


• 7.: Expressions of Humility and Epistemological Psychology


• 8.: The Logical Space of Humility


• 9.: Humility: Nature, Value, and Virtue


• 10.: Conclusion