Michael Bergmann is a contemporary analytic philosopher at Purdue University whose work spans epistemology and philosophy of religion. He is best known for his defense of skeptical theism as a response to evidential arguments from evil, and for his externalist account of epistemic justification developed in 'Justification without Awareness' (2006). His epistemological work argues that justified belief does not require the believer's awareness of what makes it justified, and that nonconceptual experiential states can bear genuine evidential weight.
Developed a systematic defense of skeptical theism against evidential arguments from evil
Authored 'Justification without Awareness' (2006), a major contribution to externalist epistemology
Argued that nonconceptual experience can stand in evidential relations to beliefs, challenging internalist requirements on justification
Contributed to debates on proper basicality and the rationality of theistic belief
Co-edited influential volumes on skeptical theism and epistemic justification
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