Responding to Debunking Arguments: A Reply to Lari Launonen’s Critique
In this response article, I argue that Launonen’s criticisms either are beyond the scope of my argument in chapter 5 of Arguing from Cognitive Science of Religion or wrongfully presume that evolutionary explanations exhaustively explain religious beliefs. I also criticize Launonen’s claim that argum...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Philosophia reformata
Year: 2022, Volume: 87, Issue: 2, Pages: 195-207 |
| Further subjects: | B
justification of religious belief
B Religious Epistemology B cognitive science of religion B debunking arguments |
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| Summary: | In this response article, I argue that Launonen’s criticisms either are beyond the scope of my argument in chapter 5 of Arguing from Cognitive Science of Religion or wrongfully presume that evolutionary explanations exhaustively explain religious beliefs. I also criticize Launonen’s claim that arguments in terms of divine design are preferable to arguments in terms of truth-tracking cognitive mechanisms. |
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| ISSN: | 2352-8230 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophia reformata
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/23528230-bja10046 |