WP 3 very rough draft

Writing project 3

Religious studies what is that. Religious studies are defined as a program that engages in the comparative, cross-cultural study of religions and cultures. It also focuses on various disciplinary approaches, including the historical, sociological, anthropological and theological, the academic study of religion seeks to interpret, analyze and evaluate the nature and role of religion in the lives of individuals and societies. One could break this program down into several parts. First being religions. Second being cultures. The third being the disciplinary approaches.   

For the disciplinary approaches, I would define it as a concentrated area of interest. But scholars define it as the development of studies, theories, and process. In one article I read it focuses on the psychological and thought process of things also referred to as knowledge. Titled; “Knowledge essentially based upon false beliefs”. It is written by Avram Hiller. The beginning part of the article is based mostly on an agent an agent is a person who acts on behalf of another. Where he makes statements like knowledge is that the agent’s belief is not essentially based on any false assumptions. Then he calls theses false assumptions the nonessential-false-assumption account, or NEFA. Throughout the article he refers to NEFA a lot. He uses examples from other philosophers and shows how NEFA can refer to their situation. He then describes how everything has justification to it. He shows what this agent person (his secretary) uses as claims for justification. He says the reason why the agent has knowledge despite the causal role that the falsehood plays is that there is another proposition – the proposition that the secretary said that the appointment is on Monday – which meets three conditions: (1) it is also justified by the apparent memory (2) it is true, and (3) it justifies the belief. Because there is available to the agent a second proposition that meets these conditions even if the agent doesn’t explicitly believe the proposition. He then goes to say even if the person doesn’t believe these things it has to be true due to logic and the use of logos. And not everything can be proven using NEFA. After a long rant of useful information he sums up everything in a few sentences which comes down to: there is a plausible alternative account of knowledge which handles the cases appropriately and which thus demands further examination. “Here is where I would insert my interview findings”.

This is just the rough draft. I would continue this process for the two other parts of the discipline and I feel this should put me on the right track.