Faith, rationality and the passions
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The best-selling author of Why Evolution Is True discusses the negative role of religion in education, politics, medicine and social policy, explaining how religion cannot provide verifiable or responsible answers to world problems.
Work on the norms of belief in epistemology regularly starts with two touchstone essays: W.K. Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief" and William James's "The Will to Believe." Discussing the central themes from these seminal essays, Evidentialism and the Will to Believe explores the …
Gideon Freudenthal offers a novel interpretation of Mendelssohn's general philosophy and discusses Mendelssohn's semiotic interpretation of idolatry in his Jerusalem and in his Hebrew biblical commentary.
Gideon Freudenthal offers a novel interpretation of Mendelssohn's general philosophy and discusses Mendelssohn's semiotic interpretation of idolatry in his Jerusalem and in his Hebrew biblical commentary.
"Darwinism and the Divine examines the implications of evolutionary thought for natural theology, from the time of publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species to current debates on creationism and intelligent design. Questions whether Darwin's theory of natural selection re…
The ethics of belief: individual and social
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How do people form beliefs, and how should they do so? This book presents seventeen new essays on these questions, drawing together perspectives from philosophy and psychology. The first section explores the ethics of belief from an individualistic framework. It begins by examin…
