Religious Belief in an Age of Science: A Decision Tree for the Faithful

Öffentlicher Abendvortrag

How can a specific religious belief still be intellectually acceptable for us, now, in the 21st century? Present-day analytic philosophers of religion have elaborated various answers to this question, which can be schematized as the end nodes of a decision tree for the faithful. In the lecture, each of these apologetic strategies will be examined critically. An atheist should be able to refute all of them, so that the burden of proof for atheists is heavier than most of them think.
Professor Dr. Herman Philipse took up a distinguished professorship in philosophy at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, in September 2003. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leiden (1985-2003), Assistant Professor in Philosophy at that university (1978-85), and Research Assistant at the Husserl Archives, University of Louvain, Belgium (1977-78). Between 1985 and 2011, he taught many courses at the University of Oxford. As a student, he read law at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands (Master’s 1973), and studied philosophy at the universities of Leiden, Oxford, Paris IV, and Cologne. He is the author of Heidegger’s Philosophy of Being. A Critical Interpretation (Princeton University Press, 1998), of books in Dutch, and of numerous philosophical articles. From 2003 onwards, he also publishes each year a series of lectures on Compact Disk on various philosophical topics.
Moderation: Professor Dr. Micha Werner


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