The Will Not to Believe

Is it permissible to believe that God does not exist if the evidence is inconclusive? In this paper, we give a new argument in support of atheistic belief modelled on William James's The Will to Believe. According to James, if the evidence for a proposition, p, is ambiguous, and believing that...

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Authors: Cockayne, Joshua 1990- (Author) ; Warman, Jack (Author)
Contributors: Lougheed, Kirk (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2019]
In: Sophia
Year: 2019, Volume: 58, Issue: 3, Pages: 511-523
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
NBC Doctrine of God
Further subjects:B Belief
B Atheism
B James
B Evidence
B Fideism
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