Agnosticism : explorations in philosophy and religious thought / edited by Francis Fallon and Gavin Hyman.

'Agnosticism' brings together leading philosophers, considering the question of agnosticism, an under-explored area in philosophy and religious thought, from both analytic and continental perspectives. The book explores the various meanings of agnosticism in the twenty-first century.

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Other Authors: Fallon, Francis T. (Editor), Hyman, Gavin, 1974- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 8 |a 'Agnosticism' brings together leading philosophers, considering the question of agnosticism, an under-explored area in philosophy and religious thought, from both analytic and continental perspectives. The book explores the various meanings of agnosticism in the twenty-first century. 
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505 0 |a Cover -- Agnosticism: Explorations in Philosophy and Religious Thought -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1: The New Agnosticism -- I. The Rocket at the Bottom of the Garden -- II. Three Kinds of Agnosticism -- III. Is This a Game? Defining Religious Semantic Agnosticism -- IV. A Confused Amalgam? Defending Religious Semantic Agnosticism -- V. Return to the Bottom of the Garden -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: What is Wrong with Agnostic Belief? -- I. Second-order Agnosticism 
505 8 |a II. First Assumption: Agnostic Belief is Possible -- III. Second Assumption: Second-order Agnosticism Can Be Justified -- IV. First Answer: Agnostic Belief Goes Against Rational Requirement to Withhold Judgement -- (a) Is Agnostic Belief Really Unjustified? -- (b) Would It Matter That H Is Unjustified? -- (c) What Does Agnosticism Have to Do with It? -- V. Second Answer: Agnostic Belief is an Akratic State -- VI. Third Answer: Agnostic Belief Commits One to a Moore-paradoxical Judgement -- (a) Is a Moore-paradoxical Sentence Produced by Agnostic Belief Absurd? 
505 8 |a (B) Would the Absurdity of Judging the Conjunction Show What is Wrong with Agnostic Belief? -- VII. Conclusion: With Reservations and Concessions, Agnostic Belief Need Not Be Irrational -- (a) On the Partial, or Non-categorical Natureof the Agnostic's Belief -- (b) What Else Should the Agnostic BelieverBelieve and Do? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: If Agnosticism, Then What? -- I. Introduction -- II. Relating Agnosticism to Theism and Atheism -- (a) Compelling Grounds for Belief, Even Given Epistemological Agnosticism? Plantinga's Basic Beliefs and Gutting's Multiple Dimensions 
505 8 |a (B) Wager Arguments: Pascal, James, and Gutting -- III. Ambivalence over Indifference -- (a) Mystery -- (b) Case Study: Oscar Wilde -- (c) The Place of Belief -- IV. Conclusion: From Attitude to Practice-the Scope of Agnosticism -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: 'New Agnosticism', Imaginative Challenge, and Religious Experience -- I. Introduction -- II. Schellenberg's 'New Agnosticism': Ultimistic Non-doxastic Faith -- III. A Potential Challenge to Ultimism from Kantian-inspired Religious Pluralism 
505 8 |a IV. The Challenge to Ultimism from a Broader Religious Framework Proposition (Ietsism) -- V. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Hegel, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Agnosticism -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Aquinas and Agnosticism -- I. Agnosticism -- (a) Insouciant Agnosticism -- (b) Sceptical Agnosticism -- (c) Fideistic Agnosticism -- (d) Apophatic Agnosticism -- II. Kenny's Sceptical Agnosticism -- III. Aquinas' Texts -- (a) Commentary on the Sentences -- (b) Commentary on Boethius's De Trinitate -- (c) Summa Contra Gentiles -- (d) Summa Theologiae 
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