Challenges to moral and religious belief : disagreement and evolution / edited by Michael Bergmann and Patrick Kain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bergmann, Michael, 1964-

Kain, Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethical relativism.

Belief and doubt.

Evolution--Philosophy.

Evolution.

Religious ethics.

Faith and reason.

Ethics, Evolutionary.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

x, 298 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

"Challenges to Moral and religious belief contains fourteen original essays by philosophers, theologians, and social scientists on challenges to moral and religious belief from disagreement and evolution. Three main questions are addressed: Can one reasonably maintain one's moral and religious beliefs in the face of interpersonal disagreement with intellectual peers? Does disagreement about morality between a religious belief source, such as a sacred text, and a non-religious belief source, such as a society's moral intuitions, make it irrational to continue trusting one or both of those belief sources? Should evolutionary accounts of the origins of our moral beliefs and our religious beliefs undermine our confidence in their veracity? This volume places challenges to moral belief side-by-side with challenges to religious belief, sets evolution-based challenges alongside disagreement-based challenges, and includes philosophical perspectives together with theological and social science perspectives, with the aim of cultivating insights and lines of inquiry that are easily missed within a single discipline or when these topics are treated in isolation. The result is a collection of essays--representing both skeptical and non-skeptical positions about morality and religion--that move these discussions forward in new and illuminating directions."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Moral disagreement among philosophers / Ralph Wedgwood

Moral disagreements with psychopaths / Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Normative disagreement as a challenge to moral philosophy and philosophical theology / Robert Audi

Conciliationism and religious disagreement / John Pittard

Conscience and the moral epistemological conflict / John Hare

Theologies of hell and epistemological conflict / Charles Mathewes

Not by "reason" alone, or even first : the priority of sanctity over dignity / Timothy P. Jackson

Toward God's own ethics / Mark C. Murphy

If everything happens for a reason, then we don't know what reasons are : why the price of theism is normative skepticism / Sharon Street

Why an evolutionary perspective is critical to understanding moral behavior in humans / Sarah R. Brosnan

Darwinian normative skepticism / Dustin Locke

Why there is no Darwinian dilemma for ethical realism / William J. FitzPatrick

Religion is more than a belief : what evolutionary theories of religion tell us about religious commitments / Richard Sosis and Jordan Kiper

Does the scientific study of religion cast doubt on theistic beliefs? / Joshua C. Thurow.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199669776

0199669775

OCLC:

866619955