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Newman and the “Problem of the Criterion” Revisited
- Newman Studies Journal
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 2016
- pp. 55-67
- 10.1353/nsj.2016.0023
- Article
- Additional Information
Several Newman commentators consider that his work has been ignored by philosophers. This essay re-examines Newman’s work in relation to the particularist approach to the “problem of the criterion” in order to see whether or not Marty Maddox’s methodist depiction of Newman’s Grammar of Assent has actually obscured Newman’s relevance to this contemporary philosophical position.