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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2010
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Année: 2010, Volume: 67, Numéro: 3, Pages: 173-186 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Divine Hiddenness
B Theism B Atheism B Epistemic obligation B Agnosticism B God B Prayer |
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| Édition parallèle: | Électronique
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| Résumé: | 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 prayers in their own cases, are under a prima facie epistemic obligation to pray to God that He stop them being atheists. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-010-9227-8 |