Michael Bergmann & Patrick Kain (eds.)
Oxford University Press (2014)
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Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief contains fourteen original essays by philosophers, theologians, and social scientists on challenges to moral and religious belief from disagreement and evolution. Three main questions are addressed: Can one reasonably maintain one's moral and religious beliefs in the face of interpersonal disagreement with intellectual peers? Does disagreement about morality between a religious belief source, such as a sacred text, and a non-religious belief source, such as a society's moral intuitions, make it irrational to continue trusting one or both of those belief sources? Should evolutionary accounts of the origins of our moral beliefs and our religious beliefs undermine our confidence in their veracity? This volume places challenges to moral belief side-by-side with challenges to religious belief, sets evolution-based challenges alongside disagreement-based challenges, and includes philosophical perspectives together with theological and social science perspectives, with the aim of cultivating insights and lines of inquiry that are easily missed within a single discipline or when these topics are treated in isolation. The result is a collection of essays--representing both skeptical and non-skeptical positions about morality and religion--that move these discussions forward in new and illuminating directions.
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Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame;
Michael Bergmann, Purdue University;
Sarah Brosnan, Georgia State University;
William FitzPatrick, University of Rochester;
John Hare, Yale University;
Timothy P. Jackson, Emory University;
Patrick Kain, Purdue University;
Jordan Kiper, University of Connecticut;
Dustin Locke, Claremont McKenna College;
Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia;
Mark C. Murphy, Georgetown University;
John Pittard, Yale Divinity School;
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University;
Richard Sosis, University of Connecticut;
Sharon Street, New York University;
Joshua Thurow, University of Texas at San Antonio;
Ralph Wedgwood, University of Southern California
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Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief: Overview and Future Directions.Michael Bergmann & Patrick Kain
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