Does Belief Require Understanding?
Imagine going to the library at a university with a nuclear physics program and picking up a copy of a peer-reviewed journal in nuclear physics. I’m assuming that you, the reader, are like the 99.99999% of the population by having no ability whatsoever to understand anything in that journal. Unintimidated by the subject matter, you … Does Belief Require Understanding?
Ontology 101
I’m no expert in metaphysics, so this post won’t be a polished lecture for a philosophy class (I do, however, have certification from Honda Motors to do repairs and maintenance on their cars, but that was from 1980, so it probably has expired). But the questions raised by Jeff Lowder in his recent post on … Ontology 101
ex-apologist: On a Common Apologetic Fallacy
The fallacy sketched above occurs so frequently in the apologetics literature that I hereby label it the Apologetics Fallacy. The Apologetics Fallacy is the dialectical fallacy of assuming, in contexts of the sort sketched above, that because one has shown that D isn’t a rebutting defeater for P, one has thereby shown that D isn’t an undercutting … ex-apologist: On a Common Apologetic Fallacy
Basic Structure of My Evidential Arguments
Epistemic Interpretation of ProbabilityIn this article series, when I refer to probability I shall be adopting the epistemic interpretation of probability. The epistemic probability of a statement is a measure of the probability that a statement is true, given some stock of knowledge. In other words, epistemic probability measures a person’s degree of belief in … Basic Structure of My Evidential Arguments
Christian Philosopher Michael Sudduth Converts to Vaishnava Vedanta
Bill Vallicella has posted a long letter from Sudduth on his blog, describing what has happened and how. This is not the kind of thing one sees very often, so it makes for fascinating reading.
ex-apologist: Some Great Papers from Schellenberg Now Available Online
ex-apologist: Some Great Papers from Schellenberg Now Available Online Thanks, Ex-Apologist, for pointing these out. Schellenberg really is one of the best philosophers of religion today. I think his work deserves much more publicity than it gets, especially among atheists.
LINK: Bradley Monton’s Blog
This is another one that falls into the “not new, but new for me” category. Bradley Monton is an atheist philosopher at the University of Colorado at Boulder who specializes in philosophy of religion, philosophy of science (especially physics), probabilistic epistemology, and philosophy of time. Secular Outpost readers will be interested in Monton’s interesting essay … LINK: Bradley Monton’s Blog
I’m (In)famous!
My “retirement” notice posted on SO last Sept. 1 got MUCH more attention than I expected–or wanted. Religion Dispatches has an article about the announcement and the subsequent brouhaha: http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/3853/a_philosopher_of_religion_calls_it_quits/#letters Several letters were written and a couple of questions were raised that I would like to address: 1) Q: If I no longer respect the … I’m (In)famous!
Goodbye to All That
Over the past ten years I have published, in one venue or another, about twenty things on the philosophy of religion. I have a book on the subject, God and Burden of Proof, and another criticizing Christian apologetics, Why I am not a Christian. During my academic career I have debated William Lane Craig twice … Goodbye to All That
Best philosophy of religion books since 2000?
An old Prosblogion post asks its readers to name the top ten (or so) philosophy of religion books since 2000. I’m curious what readers here think. Which books do you think have made the greatest contribution to the subject since then? Note that I’m not necessarily asking which books you think have been the most … Best philosophy of religion books since 2000?