God and the Girl

Philosophia 49 (3):999-1005 (2020)
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Abstract

Imagine you are an agnostic who wants to maximise your chances of getting the right answer to the question whether God exists. I show that theism and atheism are not on an epistemic par with one another because, under certain possible epistemically neutral conditions, the rational thing for you to do from a purely epistemic point of view would be to bet on the atheist’s judgement that God doesn’t exist rather than on the theist’s judgement that God does exist.

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Benoit Gaultier
Université de Neuchâtel

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Warranted Christian Belief.Alvin Plantinga - 2000 - New York, US: Oxford University Press USA.
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