Disagreement Deference And Religious Commitment

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: en
ISBN-10: 0190051817
ISBN-13: 9780190051815
Page Count: 361
Categories: Philosophy
Description: Every known religious or explicitly irreligious outlook is contested by large contingents of informed and reasonable people. Many philosophers have argued that reflection on this fact should lead us to abandon confident religious or irreligious belief and to embrace religious skepticism. John Pittard critically assesses the case for such disagreement-motivated religious skepticism. While the book focuses on religious disagreement, it makes a number of significant contributions to the more general discussion of the rational significance of disagreement as well.