PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

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15 Faith and reason Faith R eligious faith is at its core an acceptance of the diagnosis and cure proposed by some religious tra ...

344 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON like “idiosyncratic, arbitrary taste and sentiment”).^1 This view is neither justified ...

FAITH AND REASON 345 3 Explanations in physics use no concepts and no laws save those of logic and physics. 4 All explanation is ...

346 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON 12 If all of our knowledge is physical knowledge (knowledge in physics, fully expressi ...

FAITH AND REASON 347 Necessity, belief-entailment, and contingency Some of the things we know are true no matter what. If you ad ...

348 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON beliefs are necessarily not unbreakable beliefs. There is not only no point in trying ...

FAITH AND REASON 349 either 32 in 98 or 33 in 98, but we don’t know which. The same goes, relative to our knowledge, for the odd ...

350 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON limited itself in this way. Nor is there any reason why they should, and there is exce ...

FAITH AND REASON 351 theoretical claims in science, they are something different from either sensory reports or reports of lines ...

352 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON Definition 5b: E is a personal explanation of P only if E has the form Agent A so acte ...

FAITH AND REASON 353 least a pound; I weigh at least a pound; so I weigh a billion pounds. Confirmationism, then, has to be stat ...

354 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON Falsificationism Falsificationism rejects this notion. Why should the fact that If the ...

FAITH AND REASON 355 Ways of being falsified A standard case of falsification is mistaken prediction; it notes that theory T ent ...

356 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON then T cannot be reasonably believed. If theory T entails P, and we know that P is fal ...

FAITH AND REASON 357 M3 There are experiences it is reasonable to think veridical that are veridical only if monotheism is true ...

358 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON Being strongly reasonable in accepting T is equivalent to something in the neighborhoo ...

FAITH AND REASON 359 Questions for reflection 1 Is the critique of scientism offered here successful? 2 How are the critiques of ...

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Glossary This glossary defines philosophical terms used in this book, giving them the sense they bear here. Unfortunately, not a ...