John Schellenberg: The Hiddenness Argument and the Contribution of Philosophy (1/5)
Channel: Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh
Date: 2017-08-28

Part of the free online course, "Philosophy, Science and Religion" https://www.coursera.org/learn/philosophy-science-religion-2

In this series of lectures, Professor John Schellenberg (Mount Saint Vincent University) introduces and explains a new argument for atheism known as the hiddenness argument. He highlights the self-imposed limitations of this way of reasoning, which is aimed at ruling out just one candidate for the status of a divine reality, the notion of a personal divine. He then clarifies the relations between this approach to the question of God's existence and other features of the contemporary landscape in philosophy and science – including the philosophical problem of evil, certain results of the cognitive science of religion, and recent moral changes suggesting cultural evolution.