Probability and theistic explanation
By: Robert Prevost.
Series: Oxford theological monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Theism.; Religion -- Philosophy.; God.
Description: In the past twenty years, interest in the epistemic status of religious belief has greatly increased. Leading this revival are the philosophers Basil Mitchell and Richard Swinburne, who believe that {eligious belief can be justified using inductive "best explanation" arguments. However, while Swinburne's approach is formal, using the calculus of Bayes Theorem, Mitchell's is informal, based on his recognition of judgment as central to such an assessment. This book is the first full length comparison of these two men and their styles of justifying religious belief. The first half addresses the issues of rationality, endorsing Mitchell's methodology; the second half explores the concept of theistic explanation and demonstrates that the ontological argument has a place in the comprehensive explanatory power of theism. --PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-189) and index.