The Epistemology of Modest Atheism
Distinguishing between the old atheism, the new atheism, and modest atheism, and also between belief and acceptance, and belief and acceptance tokens and types, I defend the disjunctive view that either modest atheistic belief or modest atheistic acceptance, construed as type, is today epistemically...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2015]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Jahr: 2015, Band: 7, Heft: 1, Seiten: 51-69 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Mackie, John L. 1917-1981, The miracle of theism
/ Dawkins, Richard 1941-, The God delusion
/ Atheism
/ Epistemic modal logic
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| IxTheo Notationen: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Distinguishing between the old atheism, the new atheism, and modest atheism, and also between belief and acceptance, and belief and acceptance tokens and types, I defend the disjunctive view that either modest atheistic belief or modest atheistic acceptance, construed as type, is today epistemically justified in the context of philosophical inquiry. Central to my defence is a deductive version of the hiddenness argument and an emphasis on the early stage of philosophical inquiry that we presently occupy. |
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| Enthält: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v7i1.129 |