“Resuscitating the Common Consent Argument for Theism”

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Matthew Braddock
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[1] The University of Tennessee at Martin,
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International Journal for Philosophy of Religion | 2023年 / 93卷
关键词：
Common Consent Argument; Religious Agreement; Theism; Naturalism; Cognitive Science of Religion;
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The common consent argument claims that widespread belief in God is good evidence for God’s existence. Though taken seriously throughout the history of philosophy, the argument died in the 1800s. Our philosophy of religion textbooks ignore it. In this paper, we hope to resuscitate it drawing upon the demographics of religious belief, the cognitive science of religion, and contemporary epistemology. We develop and defend two common consent arguments, which maintain that widespread belief in a High God is good evidence for theism over metaphysical naturalism.
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