PHIL 2297 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Evidentialism, Agnosticism, Wishful Thinking
2 Oct 2016
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You need reason, for logic and what is rational. Believing is one of the things that you do! It is wrong(morally wrong) always, everywhere and for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence. Whether it is right/wrong to hold a belief depends on whether it is supported by evidence. If there are no good arguments for or against religious belief we ought to be agnostic. (if a parody of evidence, then you can"t answer the question, proportion your evidence) Some theists accept evidentialism accept clifford"s principle and maintain there is sufficient evidence to believe. Some theists deny evidentialism 1) there are no good arguments belief is a matter of faith. 2) there are good arguments, but belief is based on faith. Clifford"s assessment: ( needs to know if his ship needs repairs, so he has some doubts. He convinces himself that the ship is fine.
