Islamic Philosophy and the Ethics of Belief

Anthony Robert Boothis Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, UK. He also works for Trusting Banks, a NWO (DutchScience Foundation) funded collaboration between the Universities of Groningen,the Netherlands, and Cambridge, UK. He has worked mainly on issues at theintersection of ethics and epistemology, and has published articles appearingin such journals as Journal ofPhilosophy, Philosophy andPhenomenological Research and Synthese. He alsoco-edited Intuitions (2014).

• Acknowledgements.- Chapter1: Falsafa as Ethics of Belief.- 1.1: Knowledge in Islam.- 1.2: TheEthics of Belief in the West.- 1.3: TheEthics of Belief in Islam.- 1.3.1: Imān vs Islam.- 1.3.2:Islamic Evidentialism.- 1.3.3:Moderate Evidentialism.- 1.3.4:Islamic Anti-Evidentialism.- 1.3.5:Moderate Anti-Evidentialism.- 1.4:Concluding Remarks.- Chapter 2: Certainty &Prophecy.- 2.1: TheQuestion of the Epistemic Elite.- 2.2: The Conditions of Certainty.- 2.3: TheActive Intellect and the Prophetic Imagination.- 2.4:Moderate Evidentialism vs. Moderate Anti-Evidentialism.- 2.5:Concluding Remarks.- Chapter 3: Prophecy &Politics.- 3.1: Human perfection.- 3.2: The Utopian City State.- 3.3: The Imperfect Cities,Liberalism and Democracy.- 3.4: Conclusion: Towards aNeo-Pyhrronism?.- References.