Praying to stop being an atheist

In this paper, I argue that atheists who think that the issue of God’s existence or non-existence is an important one; assign a greater than negligible probability to God’s existence; and are not in possession of a plausible argument for scepticism about the truth-directedness of uttering such praye...

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Main Author: Mawson, T. J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2010
In: International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 67, Issue: 3, Pages: 173-186
Further subjects:B Divine Hiddenness
B Theism
B Atheism
B Epistemic obligation
B Agnosticism
B God
B Prayer
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