John Henry Newman and the Problem of Inductive Knowledge

I think that the neglect of Newman as a philosopher is lamentable; Newman is an original thinker, one whose philosophical thought warrants attention for its own merits. An indirect goal of this paper is to establish this claim.

Download here. Good on you Joe! Newman’s Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent to my mind is a classic but of course is overlooked/sneered at in the world of humanist sophisticates.

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