The Wisdom to Doubt

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ISBN: 9780801445545 | 080144554X
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Copyright: 5/1/2007

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The Wisdom to Doubt is a major contribution to the contemporary literature on the epistemology of religious belief. Continuing the inquiry begun in his previous book, Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion, J. L. Schellenberg here argues that given our l

Preface: An Uncertain Heritage	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Finitude and the Future: Seven Modes of Religious Skepticism	p. 11
The Subject Mode	p. 15
Overlooked Evidence	p. 18
Neglected Evidence	p. 20
Inaccessible Evidence	p. 21
Undiscovered Evidence	p. 23
Undiscoverable Evidence	p. 24
Unrecognized Defeat: A Strategy of Assessment	p. 27
Additional Support for the Strategy	p. 39
Application of the Strategy to Religious Inquiry	p. 42
Is the Subject Mode Self-Defeating?	p. 47
The Object Mode	p. 50
The Ultimate: Knowable or Unknowable31?	p. 51
Religious Conceptions of the Ultimate: Adequate or Inadequate?	p. 56
Ultimism: Coherent or Incoherent?	p. 64
The Retrospective Mode	p. 69
General Preliminaries	p. 70
The Heart of the Matter: How Religious Investigation Has Suffered	p. 71
The Skeptical Fallout	p. 86
The Prospective Mode	p. 91
Why the Future Matters Now	p. 93
How the Evidence May Change	p. 97
Does the Prospective Mode Underwrite Irresponsible Generalization?	p. 105
The Modes Combined: Limitation, Immaturity, Presumption	p. 108
Combinatorial Reasoning	p. 109
The Limitation Mode	p. 112
The Immaturity Mode	p. 113
The Presumption Mode	p. 115
The Bearing of Pragmatic Considerations	p. 118
The Benefits of Belief	p. 119
The Benefits of Disbelief	p. 124
Passive or Active Skepticism?	p. 128
Cradles of Conviction: The Modes Applied and Fortified	p. 131
An Answer to Naturalism	p. 133
The Nature of Naturalism	p. 133
Arguments for Naturalism	p. 136
A More Plausible Naturalism?	p. 151
Conclusions	p. 157
The Questionableness of Religious Experience	p. 160
First-Person Justification: Variations on the Theme	p. 162
Innocent until Proven Guilty?	p. 169
The Problem of Religious Diversity Revisited	p. 175
The Problem of Natural Explanation Introduced	p. 184
Final Thoughts	p. 189
God and the Gaps: The Modes Illustrated and Vindicated	p. 191
Hiddenness Arguments I	p. 195
Parameters of the Discussion	p. 195
God, Creation, and Divine-Creature Relationship	p. 198
Objections to the Hiddenness Argument	p. 206
The Free-Will Defense against the Problem of Hiddenness	p. 218
Hiddenness Arguments II	p. 227
Former Believers	p. 228
Lifelong Seekers	p. 233
Converts to Nontheistic Religion	p. 236
Isolated Nontheists	p. 238
Conclusion	p. 242
The Argument from Horrors	p. 243
Developing the Argument	p. 243
An Objection to the Argument	p. 254
More Objections: The Free-Will Theodicy	p. 256
More Objections: The Free-Will Defense	p. 261
The Free-Will Offense	p. 270
A World without Free Will	p. 271
A World without the Free-Will Defense	p. 282
The Problems of Free Will	p. 285
This Chapter and Previous Arguments	p. 288
Consolidating Forces: The Arguments Combined	p. 291
The Consolidated Hiddenness Argument	p. 292
The Consolidated Argument from Horrors and Free Will	p. 294
The Consolidated Argument from Hiddenness, Horrors, and Free Will	p. 295
Closing the Case: Seven Proofs and a Skeptical Conclusion	p. 297
The Force of the Proofs: An Opening Worry	p. 297
The Force of the Proofs: Skeptical Theism	p. 299
The Force of the Proofs: Other Theists	p. 304
God and the Gaps	p. 306
Epilogue	p. 310
Definitions	p. 313
Principles	p. 317
Index	p. 321
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