Is it reasonable to believe in God even in the absence of strong evidence that God exists? Pragmatic arguments for theism are designed to support belief even if one lacks evidence that theism is more likely than not. Jeff Jordan proposes that there is a sound version of the most well-known argument of this kind, Pascal's Wager, and explores the issues involved - in epistemology, the ethics of belief, decision theory, and theology.
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Jordan's treatise is an impressive work. It is clearly written, very often original, concise and yet still comprehensive in its scope and sources...For philosophers...who wish to discover the state of the art as regards thinking on Pascal's Wager and related pragmatic arguments for belief in God, this is the place to start. Craig Duncan MIND
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evidentialist imperative, absolute evidentialism, finite wager, swamping property, inculcate theistic belief, independent pragmatic arguments, pragmatic belief formation, deviant deity, naturalism obtains, infinite expected utility, vague agnostic, infinite disutility, faith meme, doxastic voluntarism, actualist version, avarice charge, finite utility, deviant theology, infinite utilities, other available alternatives, prudential duty, live hypothesis, doomsday arguments, vague probability, standard decision theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Canonical Wager, William James, Clarendon Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Notre Dame, Antony Duff, Life Worth Living, Overriding Utility Requirement, Popular Philosophy, Alan Hájek, Ecumenical Wager, Richard Gale, Wisdom of Being, Bernard Williams, George Schlesinger, James's Will, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Michael Martin, Nicholas Rescher, Paul Saka, Richard Swinburne, Temple University Press New!
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evidentialist imperative, absolute evidentialism, finite wager, swamping property, inculcate theistic belief, independent pragmatic arguments, pragmatic belief formation, deviant deity, naturalism obtains, infinite expected utility, vague agnostic, infinite disutility, faith meme, doxastic voluntarism, actualist version, avarice charge, finite utility, deviant theology, infinite utilities, other available alternatives, prudential duty, live hypothesis, doomsday arguments, vague probability, standard decision theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Canonical Wager, William James, Clarendon Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Notre Dame, Antony Duff, Life Worth Living, Overriding Utility Requirement, Popular Philosophy, Alan Hájek, Ecumenical Wager, Richard Gale, Wisdom of Being, Bernard Williams, George Schlesinger, James's Will, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Michael Martin, Nicholas Rescher, Paul Saka, Richard Swinburne, Temple University Press New!
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- The Will to Believe (Works of William James) by William James on 29 pages
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- The Ethics of Belief by A. J. Burger on 7 pages
- On the Nature and Existence of God by Richard M. Gale on 6 pages
- The Existence of God (The Intl. Research Library of Philosophy) by Richard M. Gale on 6 pages
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