Q&A: Taylor
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Taylor
Question
Regarding Taylor’s argument about the sign “Welcome to Scotland,” that one cannot assume it was created by chance, and that it indeed says something true about reality. Therefore, according to naturalists, one also cannot rely on our cognitive faculties for knowing reality, since they were created by chance. My question is this: doesn’t natural selection pull the rug out from under the argument? After all, it replaces reason in shaping our cognitive faculties, and so ostensibly we can rely on them.
Answer
In those places where I described the argument from epistemology, I also answered this question.
Discussion on Answer
Both in Two Carts and in The First Existent.
And briefly also in God Plays Dice, in the appendices, on page 393.
Thank you very much.
I’m uncomfortable asking, but my desire for an answer overcomes my concern about coming across as rude, so maybe the Rabbi could point me to the place?