Religion and Arguments from Silence
Arguments from Silence have been used many times in attempts to discredit the foundations of religions. In this project, I demonstrate how one might judge the epistemic value of such arguments. To begin, I lay out for examination a specific argument from silence given by Walter Richard Cassels in hi...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2018]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Jahr: 2018, Band: 10, Heft: 3, Seiten: 155-169 |
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Cassels, Walter Richard 1826-1907, Supernatural religion
/ Religion
/ Widerlegung
/ Argumentation
/ Epistemische Logik
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RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Confirmation Theory
B Arguments from Silence |
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Zusammenfassung: | Arguments from Silence have been used many times in attempts to discredit the foundations of religions. In this project, I demonstrate how one might judge the epistemic value of such arguments. To begin, I lay out for examination a specific argument from silence given by Walter Richard Cassels in his work Supernatural Religion. I then discuss a recently developed Bayesian approach for dealing with arguments from silence. Finally, using Cassels's work and the work of some of the critics who replied to his argument, I argue for what probabilities might be applied in the use of the Bayesian method for testing the epistemic value Cassels's argument and demonstrate how one might respond to similar arguments. |
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Enthält: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v10i3.1797 |