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

Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK (2012)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

God in the Age of Science? is a critical examination of strategies for the philosophical defence of religious belief. Herman Philipse 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, and goes on to present an in-depth analysis of this case for theism. Using a 'strategy of subsidiary arguments', Philipse concludes that theism cannot be stated meaningfully; that if theism were meaningful, it would have no predictive power concerning existing evidence, so that Bayesian arguments cannot get started; and 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 atheism in the world today.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,616

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Science and the Ethics of Belief. An Examination of Philipse’s ‘Rule R’.René van Woudenberg & Joelle Rothuizen-van der Steen - 2016 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 47 (2):349-362.
Evidentialist Agnosticism.Kenneth Konyndyk - 1991 - Religious Studies 27 (3):319 - 332.
Agnosticism.Clement Dore - 1982 - Religious Studies 18 (4):503 - 507.
Sceptical Theism and Divine Lies.Erik J. Wielenberg - 2010 - Religious Studies 46 (4):509-523.
Anselmian Theism.Yujin Nagasawa - 2011 - Philosophy Compass 6 (8):564-571.

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-10-14

Downloads
8 (#1,138,312)

6 months
5 (#246,492)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Herman Philipse
Utrecht University

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references