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Challenges to moral and religious belief : disagreement and evolution / Michael Bergmann and Patrick Kain.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and ethics.
- Religion--Philosophy.
- Religion.
- Ethical relativism.
- Belief and doubt.
- Evolution--Philosophy.
- Evolution.
- Religious ethics.
- Faith and reason.
- Ethics, Evolutionary.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 298 pages)
- Other Title:
- Disagreement and evolution
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Fourteen original essays by philosophers, theologians and social scientists explore the challenges to moral and religious belief posed by disagreement and evolution. The collection represents both sceptical and non-skeptical positions about morality and religion, cultivates new insights, and moves the discussion forward in illuminating ways.
- 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.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 8, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-177865-6
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