Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief Disagreement and Evolution 1st Edition by Michael Bergmann, Patrick Kain ISBN 978-0198824510 0198824513

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ISBN 10:  0198824513

ISBN 13:  978-0198824510

Author: Michael Bergmann, Patrick Kain

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.

Table of contents: 

Part I. Moral Disagreement and Religious Disagreement

1. Moral Disagreement among Philosophers

Ralph Wedgwood

2. Moral Disagreements with Psychopaths

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

3. Normative Disagreement as a Challenge to Moral Philosophy and

Philosophical Theology

Robert Audi

4. Conciliationism and Religious Disagreement

John Pittard

Part II. Disagreement Between Religious and Non-religious Sources of Moral Belief

5. Conscience and the Moral Epistemology of Divine Command Theory

John Hare

6. Theologies of Hell and Epistemological Conflict

Charles Mathewes

7. Not by “Reason” Alone, or Even First: The Priority of Sanctity

over Dignity

Timothy P. Jackson

8. Toward God’s Own Ethics

Mark C. Murphy

9. If Everything Happens for a Reason, Then We Don’t Know What Reasons

Are: Why the Price of Theism is Normative Skepticism

Sharon Street

Part III. Evolutionary Debunking of Moral and Religious Belief

10. Why an Evolutionary Perspective is Critical to Understanding

Moral Behavior in Humans

Sarah F. Brosnan

11. Darwinian Normative Skepticism

Dustin Locke

12. Why There is No Darwinian Dilemma for Ethical Realism William J. FitzPatrick

13. Religion is More than Belief: What Evolutionary Theories of Religion Tell

Us about Religious Commitments

Richard Sosis and Jordan Kiper

14. Does the Scientific Study of Religion Cast Doubt on Theistic Beliefs? Joshua C. Thurow

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