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Evidentialism and the Will to Believe

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Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

22.05.2014

Verlag

Bloomsbury

Seitenzahl

240

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16,1/1,8 cm

Gewicht

529 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-62356-017-1

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

22.05.2014

Verlag

Bloomsbury

Seitenzahl

240

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16,1/1,8 cm

Gewicht

529 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-62356-017-1

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Libri GmbH
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DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Evidentialism and the Will to Believe

  • Acknowledgments
    Copyright Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    1. The objectives of commentary
    2. Three themes
    3. Five evaluative theses
    Chapter 1: Reading Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief"
    William Kingdon Clifford and the Metaphysical Society
    Section I - The Duty of Inquiry
    1. The ship owner case
    2. The island case
    3. Beliefs and actions
    4. Beliefs and their consequences
    5. Ethics and belief
    6. Endorsing evidentialism
    Section II - The Weight of Authority
    1. Anti-skepticism
    2. Testimonial evidence
    3. Miraculous testimony
    4. The publicity requirement
    5. The sacred tradition of humanity
    Section III - The Limits of Inference
    1. A burnt child dreads the fire
    2. Regulative principles
    3. Three norms
    Chapter 2: Reading James's "The Will to Believe"
    William James and "The Will to Believe"
    Preamble
    Section I - Hypotheses and Options
    1. Introduction and definitions
    2. Live and dead options
    3. Forced options
    4. Momentous options
    5. Religion as a genuine option
    Section II - Pascal's Wager
    1. Four stages of "The Will to Believe"
    2. Voluntarism and its limits
    3. The wager
    4. Clifford's veto
    Section III - Psychological Causes of Belief
    1. A concession to evidentialism
    2. Truth and other useful ideas
    3. Pascal is a regular clincher
    Section IV - The Thesis of the Essay
    1. A thematic transition
    2. The thesis
    Sections V and VI - Absolutism and Empiricism
    1. Two forms of faith
    2. Objective evidence and its discontents
    3. Truth for Empricism
    Section VII - Two Different Sorts of Risks in Believing
    1. The two commandments
    2. The case for the Truth Norm
    3. Two critical points
    Section VIII - Some Risk Unavoidable
    1. Applying the meta-epistemology
    2. Interested inquiry
    3. Two analogies
    Section IX - Faith May Bring Forth Its Own Verification
    1. Moral and scientific questions
    2. Moral skepticism
    3. The argument from friendship
    4. The argument from social coordination
    5. Doxastic efficacy and the will-to-believe
    Section X - Logical Conditions of Religious Belief
    1. The overall form of James's argument
    2. Religion's dual essence
    3. Religion as live and momentous
    4. Religion as forced
    5. The conversion fallacy
    6. Religion as doxastically efficacious
    7. Evidentialism as irrational
    8. Religious tolerance
    Chapter 3: The Ethics of Belief and Philosophy of Religion
    Question 1: Must evidentialism be an ethical doctrine?
    Question 2: Can practical reasons trump theoretical reasons?
    Question 3: Can religion be pragmatically reconstructed?
    Question 4: What about the power of positive thinking?

    Bibliography
    Index