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23Progressive atheism: how moral evolution changes the God debateBloomsbury Academic. 2019.Getting oriented -- An (a)theological dead end -- Naturalism's shortcut -- Unexplored territory: moral evolution -- Updating God -- A relationally responsive god -- A kinder god -- A nonviolent god -- Challenging the new theism -- Atheism's brave new world.
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20Religion After Science: The Cultural Consequences of Religious ImmaturityCambridge University Press. 2019.In this provocative work, J. L. Schellenberg addresses those who, influenced by science, take a negative view of religion, thinking of it as outmoded if not decadent. He promotes the view that transcendently oriented religion is developmentally immature, showing the consilience of scientific thinking about deep time with his view. From this unique perspective, he responds to a number of influential cultural factors commonly thought to spell ill for religion, showing the changes – changes favorab…Read more
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20Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief: Disagreement and Evolution (review)International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 7 (1). 2017.
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19The Tribute of Faith: Theistic Commitment as Moral GestureThe Monist 105 (3): 408-419. 2022.In this paper I explore and defend the idea that those who struggle intellectually in theistic religious practice can be given a good reason to persist in it by treating their continuing practice as a way of paying tribute to people and projects and personal relationships and indeed to the whole moral dimension of human life, expressing how important and profoundly significant these things are to them. This ‘tribute of faith’ is a gesture that one makes with one’s life—a moral gesture. The key t…Read more
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19ContentsIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. 2009.
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19Monotheism and the Rise of ScienceCambridge University Press. 2020.This Element traces the effects of science's rise on the cultural status of monotheism. Starting in the past, it shows how monotheism contributed to science's rise, and how, returning the favour, science provided aid and support, until fairly recently, for the continuing success of monotheism in the west. Turning to the present, the Element explores reasons for supposing that explanatorily, and even on an existential level, science is taking over monotheism's traditional roles in western culture…Read more
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14Primordial RealismMidwest Studies in Philosophy 45 483-504. 2021.Here I show how thinking of inquiry as immature can illuminate problems about metaphysical and scientific realism. I begin with the question whether human beings at the very beginning of systematic inquiry who held themselves to be thus situated, temporally speaking, and came to recognize their inability to prove or probabilify the truth of metaphysical realism would have been justified in believing or accepting metaphysical realism even so. Drawing on broadly Wittgensteinian ideas I defend an a…Read more
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13Divine HiddennessIn Charles Taliaferro, Paul Draper & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction and Background The Contemporary Scene: Versions of the Hiddenness Problem The Hiddenness Problem and the Problem of Evil The Contemporary Scene: Attempts to Solve the Hiddenness Problem Works cited.
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13Part II. Testing Faith Is the Best Religion Good Enough ?In The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 67-96. 2009.
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11Appendix B: PrinciplesIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 259-262. 2009.
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10Part V. Keeping Faith Skeptical Religion as Reason’s DemandIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 235-250. 2009.
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8ConclusionIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 251-254. 2009.
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7Why Am I a Nonbeliever? – I Wonder …In Russell Blackford & Udo Schüklenk (eds.), 50 Voices of Disbelief, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009-09-10.
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7Part. I. Purifying Faith Why the Best Religion Is the Most SkepticalIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 11-66. 2009.
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5Part III. Renewing Faith How Skeptical Proof Subsumes Believing Argument – EvidentialismIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 97-156. 2009.
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5What if our species is epistemically immature?American Philosophical Quarterly 57 (3): 227-240. 2020.. New insights about a variety of epistemological topics including skepticism, peer disagreement, and the nature of knowledge emerge when we give the right sort of attention to our epistemic immaturity at the species level. This large-scale developmentalist concern illustrates a new way of doing epistemology, here called big epistemology.
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3Appendix A: DefinitionsIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 255-258. 2009.
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3Divine Hiddenness and Human ReasonInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 40 (2): 121-124. 1996.
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3Part IV. Renewing Faith How Skeptical Proof Subsumes Believing Argument – NonevidentialismIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 157-234. 2009.
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1What the hiddenness of God reveals: A collaborative discussionIn Daniel Howard-Snyder & Paul Moser (eds.), Divine Hiddenness: New Essays, Cambridge University Press. pp. 57. 2001.
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The Evolutionary Answer to the Problem of Faith and ReasonOxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 2 (1). 2010.
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God for all time : from theism to ultimismIn Andrei A. Buckareff & Yujin Nagasawa (eds.), Alternative Concepts of God: Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine, Oxford University Press. 2016.
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Reply to Moser.”In Michael L. Peterson & Raymond J. VanArragon (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion, Blackwell. pp. 54--56. 2004.
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PrefaceIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. 2009.
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The Evolutionary Answer to the Problem of Faith and ReasonIn Jonathan L. Kvanvig (ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion: Volume 2, Oxford University Press Uk. 2009.
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