Is Atheism (the Fact) Good Evidence for Atheism (the Thesis)? On John Schellenberg's Argument from Ignorance
The argument from ignorance mounted by John Schellenberg argues from the existence of non-faulty unbelief to the non-existence of God, from the fact of atheism or agnosticism to the truth of atheism. It relies on two putative conceptual relations: between the idea of love and that of personal relati...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2015]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-88 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Unbelief
/ Ignorance
/ Atheism
/ Agnosticism
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
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| Summary: | The argument from ignorance mounted by John Schellenberg argues from the existence of non-faulty unbelief to the non-existence of God, from the fact of atheism or agnosticism to the truth of atheism. It relies on two putative conceptual relations: between the idea of love and that of personal relationship, and between personal relationship and existential belief on each side of the relation concerning the other relatum. I argue that each is debatable, and so the argument cannot proceed. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v7i1.130 |