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Probability in the Philosophy of Religion 🔍
Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press USA, Oxford, 2012
Jake Chandler (Editor), Victoria S. Harrison (Editor) 🔍
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Probability theory promises to deliver an exact and unified foundation for inquiry in epistemology and philosophy of science. But philosophy of religion is also fertile ground for the application of probabilistic thinking. This volume presents original contributions from twelve contemporary researchers, both established and emerging, to offer a representative sample of the work currently being carried out in this potentially rich field of inquiry. Grouped into five parts, the chapters span a broad range of traditional issues in religious epistemology. The first three parts discuss the evidential impact of various considerations that have been brought to bear on the question of the existence of God. These include witness reports of the occurrence of miraculous events, the existence of complex biological adaptations, the apparent 'fine-tuning' for life of various physical constants and the existence of seemingly unnecessary evil. The fourth part addresses a number of issues raised
by Pascal's famous pragmatic argument for theistic belief. A final part offers probabilistic perspectives on the rationality of faith and the epistemic significance of religious disagreement.
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Victoria Harrison; Jake Chandler; Oxford University Press
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Chandler, Jake (Editor),Harrison, Victoria S. (Editor)
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IRL Press at Oxford University Press
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Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
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German Historical Institute London
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OUP Oxford
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United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
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1st ed., 1 impr, Oxford, 2012
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1, 2012-06-18
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1, PS, 2012
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Contents 6
Acknowledgements 8
List of Contributors 9
1. Probability in the Philosophy of Religion • Jake Chandler and Victoria S. Harrison 10
Part I. Testimony and Miracles 34
2. Peirce on Miracles: The Failure of Bayesian Analysis • Benjamin C. Jantzen 36
3. The Reliability of Witnesses and Testimony to the Miraculous • Timothy McGrew and Lydia McGrew 55
4. Does it Matter whether a Miracle-like Event Happens to Oneself rather than to Someone Else? • Luc Bovens 73
Part II. Design 86
5. Can Evidence for Design be Explained Away? • David H. Glass 88
6. Bayes, God, and the Multiverse • Richard Swinburne 112
Part III. Evil 134
7. Comparative Confirmation and the Problem of Evil • Richard Otte 136
8. Inductive Logic and the Probability that God Exists: Farewell to Sceptical Theism • Michael Tooley 153
Part IV. Pascal’s Wager 174
9. Blaise and Bayes • Alan Hájek 176
10. Many Gods, Many Wagers: Pascal’s Wager Meets the Replicator Dynamics • Paul Bartha 196
Part V. Faith and Disagreement 216
11. Does Religious Disagreement Actually Aid the Case for Theism? • Joshua C. Thurow 218
12. Can it be Rational to Have Faith? • Lara Buchak 234
Index of Names 258
Index of Subjects 261
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These specially written essays show that philosophy of religion is fertile ground for the application of probabilistic thinking. The authors examine central topics in the field: the status of evidence relating to the question of the existence of God; the rationality of religious belief; and the epistemic significance of religious disagreement.
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