The Wisdom To Doubt

The Wisdom To Doubt
Phụ đề:	A Justification of Religious Skepticism
Tác giả:	J. L. Schellenberg
Ký hiệu tác giả:	SC-J
DDC:	210 - Triết học tôn giáo
Ngôn ngữ:	Anh
Số cuốn:	1

Hiện trạng các bản sách

Mã số:	258SB0016754
Nhà xuất bản:	Cornell University Press
Năm xuất bản:	2007
Khổ sách:	22
Số trang:	326
Kho sách:	Thư viện Sao Biển
Tình trạng:	Hiện có

Preface: An Uncertain Heritage									xi
Introduction									1
PART I. FINITUDE AND THE FUTURE: SEVEN MODES OF RELIGIOUS SKEPTICISM									11
1. The Subject Mode									15
1. Overlooked Evidence									18
2. Neglected Evidence									20
3. Inaccessible Evidence									21
4. Undiscovered Evidence									23
5. Undiscoverable Evidence									24
6. Unrecognized Defeat: A Strategy of Assessment									27
7. Additional Support for the Strategy									39
8. Application of the Strategy to Religious Inquiry									42
9. Is the Subject Mode Self-Defeating?									47
2. The Object Mode									50
1. The Ultimate: Knowable or Unknowable?									51
2. Religious Conceptions of the Ultimate: Adequate or Inadequate?									56
3. Ultimism: Coherent or Incoherent?									64
3. The Retrospective Mode									69
1. General Preliminaries									70
2. The Heart of the Matter: How Religious Investigation Has Suffered									71
3. The Skeptical Fallout									86
4. The Prospective Mode									91
1. Why the Future Matters Now									93
2. How the Evidence May Change									97
3. Does the Prospective Mode Underwrite Irresponsible Generalization?									105
5. The Modes Combined: Limitation, Immaturity, Presumption									108
1. Combinatorial Reasoning									109
2. The Limitation Mode									112
3. The Immaturity Mode									113
4. The Presumption Mode									115
6. The Bearing of Pragmatic Considerations									118
1. The Benefits of Belief									119
2. The Benefits of Disbelief									124
3. Passive or Active Skepticism?									128
PART II. CRADLES OF CONVICTION: THE MODES APPLIED AND FORTIFIED									131
7. An Answer to Naturalism									133
1. The Nature of Naturalism 2. Arguments for Naturalism									133
3. A More Plausible Naturalism?									136
4. Conclusions									151
8. The Questionableness of Religious Experience									157
1. First-Person Justification: Variations on the Theme									160
2. Innocent until Proven Guilty?									162
3. The Problem of Religious Diversity Revisited									169
4. The Problem of Natural Explanation Introduced									175
5. Final Thoughts									184
PART III. GOD AND THE GAPS: THE MODES ILLUSTRATED AND VINDICATED									189
9. Hiddenness Arguments I									191
1. Parameters of the Discussion									195
2. God, Creation, and Divine-Creature Relationship									198
3. Objections to the Hiddenness Argument									206
4. The Free-Will Defense against the Problem of Hiddenness									218
10. Hiddenness Arguments II									227
1. Former Believers									228
2. Lifelong Seekers									233
3. Converts to Nontheistic Religion									236
4. Isolated Nontheists									238
5. Conclusion									242
11. The Argument from Horrors									243
1. Developing the Argument									243
2. An Objection to the Argument									254
3. More Objections: The Free-Will Theodicy									256
4. More Objections: The Free-Will Defense									261
12. The Free-Will Offense									270
1. A World without Free Will									271
2. A World without the Free-Will Defense									282
3. The Problems of Free Will									285
4. This Chapter and Previous Arguments									288
13. Consolidating Forces: The Arguments Combined									291
1. The Consolidated Hiddenness Argument									292
2. The Consolidated Argument from Horrors and Free Will									294
3. The Consolidated Argument from Hiddenness, Horrors, and Free Will									295
14. Closing the Case: Seven Proofs and a Skeptical Conclusion									297
1. The Force of the Proofs: An Opening Worry									297
2. The Force of the Proofs: Skeptical Theism									299
3. The Force of the Proofs: Other Theists									304
4. God and the Gaps									306
Epilogue									310
Appendix A. Definitions									313
Appendix B. Principles									317
Index									321

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