Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Entelekya Logico-Metaphysical Review, cilt.9, ss.89-106, 2025 (Hakemli Dergi)
This study examines how Richard Swinburne epistemi-cally justifies belief in God through probabilistic reasoning. Reject-ing the claim that classical theistic arguments can yield metaphys-ical certainty, Swinburne bases belief not on deductive proof but on high probability, using Bayesian probability theory to defend the rationality of theism. The study first outlines the conceptual and historical background of evidentialism and then situates Swin-burne’s position within this context. While he treats the ontological argument with caution and excludes it from his cumulative case, his analysis centers on the cosmological, teleological, moral, and religious experience arguments, which together form a cumulative inductive case. Examined alongside Reformed epistemology and contemporary critiques, Swinburne’s approach presents theistic belief as a rationally defensible commitment grounded in probabil-istic reasoning and epistemic responsibility.