The Common-Core/Diversity Dilemma
This paper is the product of an interdisciplinary, interreligious dialogue aiming to outline some of the possibilities and rational limits of supernatural religious belief, in the light of a critique of David Humes familiar sceptical arguments - including a rejection of his famous Maxim on miracles...
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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
Year: 2015, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-49 |
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Interfaith dialogue
/ Accordance
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/ Disparity
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520 | |a This paper is the product of an interdisciplinary, interreligious dialogue aiming to outline some of the possibilities and rational limits of supernatural religious belief, in the light of a critique of David Humes familiar sceptical arguments - including a rejection of his famous Maxim on miracles - combined with a range of striking recent empirical research. The Humean nexus leads us to the formulation of a new Common-Core/Diversity Dilemma (CCDD), which suggests that the contradictions between different religious belief systems, in conjunction with new understandings of the cognitive forces that shape their common features, persuasively challenge the rationality of most kinds of supernatural belief. In support of this conclusion, we survey empirical research concerning intercessory prayer, religious experience, near-death experience, and various cognitive biases (e.g. agency detection, theory of mind, egocentric and confirmation bias). But we then go on to consider evidence that supernaturalism - even when rationally unwarranted - has significant beneficial individual and social effects, despite others (such as tribalism) that are far less desirable. This prompts the formulation of a Normal/Objective Dilemma (NOD), identifying important trade-offs to be found in the choice between our humanly evolved normal outlook on the world, and one that is more rational and objective. Can we retain the pragmatic benefits of supernatural belief while avoiding irrationality and intergroup conflict? It may well seem that rationality is incompatible with any wilful sacrifice of objectivity (and we appreciate the force of this austere view). But in a situation of uncertainty, an attractive compromise may be available by moving from the competing factions and mutual contradictions of first-order supernaturalism to a more abstract and tolerant second-order view, which itself can be given some distinctive (albeit controversial) intellectual support through the increasingly popular Fine Tuning Argument. We end by proposing a Maxim of the Moon to express the undogmatic spirit of this second-order religiosity, providing a cautionary metaphor to counter the pervasive bias endemic to the human condition, and offering a more cooperation- and humility-enhancing understanding of religious diversity in a tense and precarious globalised age. | ||
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