Pragmatic decisions about god from different points of view: the costs of apostasy
Pascal, with his famous wager, argued in favour of religious practice and faith by appeal to expected payoffs. Here I discuss an asymmetry in similar pragmatic arguments for decisions about God. I begin with the observation that apostates (those who abandon religious practice and/or belief) pay cost...
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Springer Nature B. V
[2016]
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 80, Issue: 2, Pages: 103-113 |
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Bereavement
B BELIEF & doubt B Pascal B Apostasy B God B Wager B Pragmatics |
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