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56Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief: Disagreement and Evolution, edited by Michael Bergmann and Patrick KainInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 7 (1): 62-67. 2017._ Source: _Page Count 6
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59How to be an atheist and a sceptic too: response to McCreary: J. L. SCHELLENBERGReligious Studies 46 (2): 227-232. 2010.Mark McCreary has argued that I cannot consistently advance both the hiddenness argument and certain arguments for religious scepticism found in my book The Wisdom to Doubt . This reaction was expected, and in WD I explained its shortsightedness in that context. First, I noted how in Part III of WD , where theism is addressed, my principal aim is not to prove atheism but to show theists that they are not immune from the scepticism defended in Parts I and II. To the success of this aim, McCreary'…Read more
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198The Hiddenness Argument RevisitedReligious Studies 41 (3): 287-303. 2005.In this second of two essays responding to critical discussion of my " Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason," I show how an ' accommodationist ' strategy can be used to defuse objections that were not exposed as irrelevant by the first essay. This strategy involves showing that the dominant concern of reasons for divine withdrawal can be met or accommodated within the framework of divine - human relationship envisaged by the hiddenness argument. I conclude that critical discussion leaves the argum…Read more
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209Divine Hiddenness and Human ReasonCornell University Press. 1993.In Part 1 of this book, the first full-length treatment of its topic, J. L. Schellenberg argues that when we notice how
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Reply to Moser.”In Michael L. Peterson (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion, Blackwell. pp. 54--56. 2003.
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47A modest solution to the problem of religious disagreementInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 82 (3): 273-288. 2017.In this paper I develop a new recipe for solving the problem of religious disagreement suggested by the injunction to cultivate intellectual humility conjoined with awareness of human immaturity in deep time. The ingredients brought to the table include such things as noticing the full breadth and texture of the religious propositional field, observing the previously hidden areas of agreement this exposes, making a differential judgment of importance in relation to religious propositions, applyi…Read more
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116Prolegomena to a philosophy of religionCornell University Press. 2005.Providing an original and systematic treatment of foundational issues in philosophy of religion, J. L. Schellenberg's new book addresses the structure of..
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98The wisdom to doubt: a justification of religious skepticismCornell University Press. 2007.The Wisdom to Doubt is a major contribution to the contemporary literature on the epistemology of religious belief.
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250The atheist’s free will offenceInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 56 (1): 1-15. 2004.This paper criticizes the assumption, omnipresent in contemporary philosophy of religion, that a perfectly good and loving God would wish to confer on finite persons free will. An alternative mode of Divine-human relationship is introduced and shown to be as conducive to the realization of value as one involving free will. Certain implications of this result are then revealed, to wit, that the theist's free will defence against the problem of evil is unsuccessful, and what is more, that free wil…Read more
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21ContentsIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. 2009.
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37Review of Michael Martin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (6). 2007.
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2658Divine HiddennessIn Paul Draper, Charles Talliaferro & Phillip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, 2nd ed., Wiley-blackwell. 2010.
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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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20Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief: Disagreement and Evolution (review)International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 7 (1). 2017.
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IntroductionIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 1-10. 2009.
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59The Hiddenness Argument: Philosophy's New Challenge to Belief in GodOxford University Press UK. 2015.In many places and times, and for many people, God's existence has been rather less than a clear fact. According to the hiddenness argument, this is actually a reason to suppose that it is not a fact at all. The hiddenness argument is a new argument for atheism that has come to prominence in philosophy over the past two decades. J. L. Schellenberg first developed the argument in 1993, and this book offers a short and vigorous statement of its central claims and ideas. Logically sharp but so clea…Read more
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3Divine Hiddenness and Human ReasonInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 40 (2): 121-124. 1996.
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61Stalemate and Strategy: Rethinking the Evidential Argument from EvilAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 37 (4). 2000.
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78A Reply to WykstraPhilo 14 (1): 101-107. 2011.Wykstra’s paper defends two objections to my reasoning in The Wisdom to Doubt. One says that we in fact do take evidence to be representative of all the relevant evidence that exists when forming the judgment that it makes some proposition probable, the other that our judgments as to the representativeness of evidence are often justified, and can be justified even in matters of religion. Both objections are instructive but ultimately unsuccessful, as I show here.
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11Part 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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1394Religious Diversity and Religious SkepticismIn Kevin Schilbrack (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religious Diversity, Wiley-blackwell. 2015.In this paper I argue that given the present state of relevant inquiry, the facts of religious diversity justify religious skepticism. Because of the diversity of religious claims, the denial of any detailed religious proposition is equivalent to a large disjunction of alternative claims. The same is true of the denial of metaphysical naturalism. And having typically acquired no detailed understanding of the whole panoply of religious views, religious believers and metaphysical naturalists are r…Read more
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108On reasonable nonbelief and perfect love: Replies to Henry and LeheFaith and Philosophy 22 (3): 330-342. 2005.Some Christian philosophers wonder whether a God really would oppose reasonable nonbelief. Others think the answer to the problem of reasonable nonbelief is that there isn’t any. Between them, Douglas V. Henry and Robert T. Lehe cover all of this ground in their recent responses to my work on Divine hiddenness. Here I give my answers to their arguments
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72The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religionCornell University Press. 2009.Ultimism and the aims of human immaturity -- Faith without details, or how to practice skeptical religion -- Simple faith and the complexities of tradition -- The structure of faith justification -- How skeptical faith is true to reason -- Anselm's idea -- Leibniz's ambition -- Paley's wonder -- Pascal's wager -- Kant's postulate -- James's will -- Faith is positively justified : the many modes of religious vision.
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57God, the Best, and Evil, by Bruce LangtryMind 118 (472): 1155-1160. 2009.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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