Conclusion: Miracles and Contemporary Epistemology

Abstract

I have concluded that it is possible for one to justifiably believe that a miracle has occurred, either on the basis of testimony or direct experience. This conclusion has been reached apart from any specific account of what is meant by knowledge and epistemic justification though such analyses are relevant. Are there theoretical considerations in contemporary epistemology that perhaps undermined the conclusions reached? This is a rather huge question but one that can be limited at the outset. It can be limited partly arbitrarily, but also because much of the contemporary debate in epistemology is, I think, neutral with regard to the type of evaluative and normative question about the possibility of justified belief in miracles that we have been examining.