These specially written essays show that philosophy of religion is fertile ground for the application of probabilistic thinking. The authors examine central topics in the field: the status of evidence relating to the question of the existence of God; the rationality of religious belief; and the epistemic significance of religious disagreement.
These specially written essays show that philosophy of religion is fertile ground for the application of probabilistic thinking. The authors examine central topics in the field: the status of evidence relating to the question of the existence of God; the rationality of religious belief; and the epistemic significance of religious disagreement.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jake Chandler studied at King's College Cambridge, the University of Sussex, and finally King's College London, where he received a PhD in Philosophy in 2005, under the joint supervision of James Hopkins and David Papineau. Currently Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium, he was previously Adam Smith Visiting Professor in Philosophy and Economics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Victoria S. Harrison (PhD, University of London, 1997) is Reader in Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Religion at the University of Glasgow. She came to Glasgow in 2005 from the University of Colorado at Boulder, having previously held positions at Birkbeck College (University of London), the University of Notre Dame's London Centre, the Muslim College (London), and Kingston University. She is on the Board of Associate Editors for the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and on the Editorial Board of both Philosophy Compass (Philosophy of Religion section) and Religious Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
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* Acknowledgements * List of Contributors * 1: Jake Chandler and Victoria S. Harrison: Probability in the Philosophy of Religion * Part I: Testimony and Miracles * 2: Benjamin C. Jantzen: Peirce on Miracles: The Failure of Bayesian Analysis * 3: Tim McGrew and Lydia McGrew: The Reliability of Witnesses and Testimony to the Miraculous' * 4: Luc Bovens: Does it Matter whether a Miracle-Like Event Happens to Oneself rather than to Someone Else? * Part II: Design * 5: David H. Glass: Can Evidence for Design be Explained Away? * 6: Richard Swinburne: Bayes, God, and the Multiverse * Part III: Evil * 7: Richard Otte: Comparative Confirmation and the Problem of Evil' * 8: Michael Tooley: Inductive Logic and the Probability that God Exists: Farewell to Sceptical Theism * Part IV: Pascal's Wager * 9: Alan Hájek: Blaise and Bayes * 10: Paul Bartha: Many Gods, Many Wagers: Pascal's Wager Meets the Replicator Dynamics * Part V: Faith and Disagreement * 11: Joshua C. Thurow: Does Religious Disagreement Actually Aid the Case for Theism? * 12: Lara Buchak: Can it be it Rational to Have Faith? * Index
* Acknowledgements * List of Contributors * 1: Jake Chandler and Victoria S. Harrison: Probability in the Philosophy of Religion * Part I: Testimony and Miracles * 2: Benjamin C. Jantzen: Peirce on Miracles: The Failure of Bayesian Analysis * 3: Tim McGrew and Lydia McGrew: The Reliability of Witnesses and Testimony to the Miraculous' * 4: Luc Bovens: Does it Matter whether a Miracle-Like Event Happens to Oneself rather than to Someone Else? * Part II: Design * 5: David H. Glass: Can Evidence for Design be Explained Away? * 6: Richard Swinburne: Bayes, God, and the Multiverse * Part III: Evil * 7: Richard Otte: Comparative Confirmation and the Problem of Evil' * 8: Michael Tooley: Inductive Logic and the Probability that God Exists: Farewell to Sceptical Theism * Part IV: Pascal's Wager * 9: Alan Hájek: Blaise and Bayes * 10: Paul Bartha: Many Gods, Many Wagers: Pascal's Wager Meets the Replicator Dynamics * Part V: Faith and Disagreement * 11: Joshua C. Thurow: Does Religious Disagreement Actually Aid the Case for Theism? * 12: Lara Buchak: Can it be it Rational to Have Faith? * Index
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