all Products Philosophy Religious

God in the Age of Science?: A Critique of Religious Reason

Philipse, Herman

Select Format

Print Book

Paperback

Item Condition New

$28.91 USD $30.43 USD

$28.91 USD

~~$30.43 USD~~ $28.91 USD

Sale Sold out

Shipping calculated at checkout.

Quantity

View full details

God in the Age of Science? is a critical examination of strategies for the philosophical defence of religious belief. The main options may be presented as the end nodes of a decision tree for religious believers. The faithful can interpret a creedal statement (e.g. "God exists") either as a truth claim, or otherwise. If it is a truth claim, they can either be warranted to endorse it without evidence, or not. Finally, if evidence is needed, should its evidential support be assessed by the same logical criteria that we use in evaluating evidence in science, or not? Each of these options has been defended by prominent analytic philosophers of religion.

In part I Herman Philipse assesses these options and argues that the most promising for believers who want to be justified in accepting their creed in our scientific age is the Bayesian cumulative case strategy developed by Richard Swinburne. Parts II and III are devoted to an in-depth analysis of this case for theism. Using a "strategy of subsidiary arguments," Philipse concludes (1) that theism cannot be stated meaningfully; (2) that if theism were meaningful, it would have no predictive power concerning existing evidence, so that Bayesian arguments cannot get started; and (3) that if the Bayesian cumulative case strategy did work, one should conclude that atheism is more probable than theism. Philipse provides a careful, rigorous, and original critique of theism in the world today.

Accessories:

No Accessory

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PR

Bisac Major Subject

Philosophy

Bisac Minor Subject

Religious

Binding Type

Paperback

Country Of Origin

Number Of Units

Length

9.2 Inches

Barcode Indicator

EAN

Width

6.1 Inches

Publication Date

1970-01-01

Height

1.0 Inches

ISBN 10

0198701527

Weight

1.25 Pounds

Book EAN

9780198701521

Target Audiance

Adults

User reviews will be displayed here...

Item added to your cart

God in the Age of Science?: A Critique of Religious Reason