Why Alston's mystical doxastic practice is subjective

Abstract

William Alston argues in his “Perceiving God” that the doxastic practice of taking experiential inputs of apparent direct perceptions of God as giving prima facie justification, subject to defeat by overriders, for belief outputs that God exists and is as he presents himself is a reliable, cognitive practice. This paper argues that the practice is not cognitive, because its experiential inputs have cognate accusatives.