“Resuscitating the Common Consent Argument for Theism”
The common consent argument claims that widespread belief in God is good evidence for God’s existence. Though taken seriously throughout the history of philosophy, the argument died in the 1800s. Our philosophy of religion textbooks ignore it. In this paper, we hope to resuscitate it drawing upon th...
| Published in: | International journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature B. V
2023
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| In: |
International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Faith
/ Supreme Being
/ Consensus
/ Existence of God
/ Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
/ Cognition theory
/ Theism
/ Naturalism (Philosophy)
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion NBC Doctrine of God VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious Agreement
B Theism B Common Consent Argument B Consensus Gentium B cognitive science of religion B Naturalism |
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| Summary: | The common consent argument claims that widespread belief in God is good evidence for God’s existence. Though taken seriously throughout the history of philosophy, the argument died in the 1800s. Our philosophy of religion textbooks ignore it. In this paper, we hope to resuscitate it drawing upon the demographics of religious belief, the cognitive science of religion, and contemporary epistemology. We develop and defend two common consent arguments, which maintain that widespread belief in a High God is good evidence for theism over metaphysical naturalism. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-022-09856-9 |