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God in the Age of Science?

A Critique of Religious Reason

by Herman Philipse

  • Hardback
  • 392 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 16.1 x 23.4 x 3.6 cm

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For thinkers grappling with faith and science debates

Challenges assumptions about evidence for theism

You will gain insights into the philosophy of belief

Explore the intersection of faith and reason with Herman Philipse's critical examination of religious belief in a scientific age.

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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.
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  • Author

    Herman Philipse

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    February 2012

  • Weight

    727g

  • Page Count

    392

  • Dimensions

    16.1 x 23.4 x 3.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199697533

  • ISBN-10

    0199697531

  • Eden Code

    4024312

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