This session revisits the epistemology of St John Henry Newman in light of contemporary categories, developments, and concerns in philosophy and theology. In particular, it explores Newman’s notions of the illative sense, certitude, and real versus notional assent. First, Dr. Frederick Aquino and Dr. Logan Paul Gage reexamine Newman’s illative sense. They explain what the illative sense is, show how not to assimilate it to contemporary epistemology and psychology, and ultimately defend a model on which the illative sense tacitly perceives support relations between states of affairs and propositions. Second, Dr. Edward Epsen proposes a model of religious faith on which second-order, doubt-exclusive belief (or certitude) is central. This Newman-inspired model, he argues, both illuminates the dynamic of reciprocal accountability between individual believer and the religious community on the one hand and explains how infallible assent to fallible credal propositions is possible on the other. Lastly, Dr. Lorraine Juliano Keller argues that Newman is working within a framework that is radically different from standard treatments of propositional attitudes in contemporary analytic philosophy and that makes it difficult for today’s philosophers to understand Newman. In this paper, she elucidates puzzling aspects of Newman’s distinction between real and notional assent from an analytic perspective.Chair: Paul Gavrilyuk (St Thomas University)Speakers:Frederick D. Aquino (Abilene Christian University) and Logan Paul Gage (Franciscan University of Steubenville), Newman’s Illative Sense: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and How It WorksEdward Epsen (University of Aberdeen), Infallible Knowledge for Fallible People: Faith and the Virtues of CertitudeLorraine Juliano Keller (St Joseph’s University of Pennsylvania), Real and Notional Assent