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Unsettling Obligations: Essays on Reason, Reality and the Ethics of Belief

By Allen W. Wood

Book information

Publisher
CSLI Publications
Year
2002
ISBN
1575863936, 9781575863931
Google Books ID
87GTQgAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
39 MB (40588615 bytes)
Series
Center for the Study of Language and Information - CSLI Lecture Notes 146
Pages
280\280
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

Should we hold beliefs only insofar as they are rationally supportable? According to Allen W. Wood, we're morally obliged to do so—and yet how does this apply to religious beliefs? Unsettling Obligations examines these and related ethical and philosophical issues, taking and defending stances on many of them. Along with the theme of belief and evidence, other topics include a historical perspective of philosophy based on the Enlightenment rationalist tradition and a study of how our practical commitments help define truth and value.

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