God and Evidence: Problems for Theistic Philosophers. By Rob Lovering
As the title would lead one to expect, this is a book in analytic philosophy of religion written with a view to pushing several arguments against the rational acceptability of theism, arguments arising from how belief in it may be viewed as relating to evidence. Lovering gives theists a number of op...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 829-831 |
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| Summary: | As the title would lead one to expect, this is a book in analytic philosophy of religion written with a view to pushing several arguments against the rational acceptability of theism, arguments arising from how belief in it may be viewed as relating to evidence. Lovering gives theists a number of options before arguing that all are implausible. A theist might be an ‘inferentialist’ and/or a ‘noninferentialist’. People in the first group are defined as thinking that there is practicably discoverable evidence that renders theism probable (by inference from it); people in the second group are defined as thinking that there is practicably discoverable evidence that non-inferentially justifies theism. Most theistic philosophers would actually put themselves in both groups. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flu086 |