dc.contributor.author |
Bishop, John |
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dc.coverage.spatial |
San Francisco, CA |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-01-05T20:48:59Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2007-12 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
APA Pacific Division 2007 Mini-Conference on Models of God, San Francisco, CA, 02 Apr 2007 - 05 Apr 2007. Philosophia. Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 35: 387-402. Dec 2007 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0048-3893 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/10355 |
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dc.description.abstract |
On the assumption that theistic religious commitment takes place in the face of evidential ambiguity, the question arises under what conditions it is permissible to make a doxastic venture beyond one's evidence in favour of a religious proposition. In this paper I explore the implications for orthodox theistic commitment of adopting, in answer to that question, a modest, moral coherentist, fideism. This extended Jamesian fideism crucially requires positive ethical evaluation of both the motivation and content of religious doxastic ventures. I suggest that, even though the existence of horrendous evil does not resolve evidential ambiguity in favour of atheism, there are reasonable value commitments that would preclude those who hold them from satisfying extended Jamesian fideist conditions for committing themselves to classical theism. I then begin a discussion of a possible revisionary theistic alternative (in the Christian tradition) which - one might hope - may meet those conditions. An earlier, shorter, version of this paper was delivered as a keynote address at the APA Pacific 2007 Mini-Conference on Models of God. |
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dc.publisher |
Springer Science + Business Media B.V |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
APA Pacific Division 2007 Mini-Conference on Models of God |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Philosophia |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0048-3893/ |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.subject |
fideism |
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dc.subject |
theism |
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dc.subject |
faith-venture |
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dc.subject |
faith |
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dc.subject |
justifiability of religious beliefs |
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dc.subject |
ethics of belief |
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dc.subject |
Reformed epistemology |
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dc.subject |
concepts of God |
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dc.subject |
problem of evil |
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dc.subject |
social doctrine of the Trinity |
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dc.subject |
greatness qua being |
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dc.subject |
CHRISTIAN BELIEF |
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dc.title |
How a modest fideism may constrain theistic commitments: Exploring an alternative to classical theism |
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dc.type |
Conference Item |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1007/s11406-007-9071-y |
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pubs.issue |
3-4 |
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pubs.begin-page |
387 |
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pubs.volume |
35 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: Springer Science + Business Media B.V |
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pubs.end-page |
402 |
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pubs.finish-date |
2007-04-05 |
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pubs.start-date |
2007-04-02 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Abstract |
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pubs.elements-id |
165081 |
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pubs.org-id |
Arts |
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pubs.org-id |
Humanities |
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pubs.org-id |
Philosophy |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2010-11-27 |
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