Challenges to moral and religious belief : disagreement and evolution

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Label

Challenges to moral and religious belief : disagreement and evolution

Title remainder

disagreement and evolution

Statement of responsibility

edited by Michael Bergmann and Patrick Kain

Contributor

• Bergmann, Michael, 1964-
• Kain, Patrick

Editor

• Bergmann, Michael, 1964-
• Kain, Patrick

Subject

• Belief and doubt
• Ethical relativism
• Ethics
• Ethics, Evolutionary
• Evolution -- Philosophy
• Faith and reason
• Religious ethics

Language

eng

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"--

Assigning source

Back cover

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

210

Index

index present

LC call number

• BL51
• BJ1031

LC item number

• .C485 2014
• .C475 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography