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  1. Resuscitating the Common Consent Argument for Theism.Matthew Braddock - 2023 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 93 (3):189-210.
    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 (...)
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  • Religious Disagreement.Helen De Cruz - 2019 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    This Element examines what we can learn from religious disagreement, focusing on disagreement with possible selves and former selves, the epistemic significance of religious agreement, the problem of disagreements between religious experts, and the significance of philosophy of religion. Helen De Cruz shows how religious beliefs of others constitute significant higher-order evidence. At the same time, she advises that we should not necessarily become agnostic about all religious matters, because our cognitive background colors the way we evaluate evidence. This allows (...)
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  • The Common Consent Argument for the Existence of Nature Spirits.Tiddy Smith - 2020 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98 (2):334-348.
    The traditional common consent argument for the existence of God has largely been abandoned—and rightly so. In this paper, I attempt to salvage the strongest version of the argument. Surprisingly,...
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  • L’idée d’un sens commun à tous. Descartes et Herbert de Cherbury.Louis Rouquayrol - 2022 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 113 (1):21-38.
    Le De Veritate de Herbert de Cherbury (1624) et son idée d’un « consentement universel » ont fait l’objet, au xvii e siècle, d’une importante discussion. Après avoir examiné la critique, d’inspiration sceptique, voyant dans toute tentative de passer outre la diversité de l’« opinion commune » une forme d’intolérance épistémique, sont restituées les grandes décisions qui, dans le De Veritate, justifient le recours au consentement universel. Enfin, on montre que Descartes, ne trouvant pas chez Herbert de critère suffisant pour (...)
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  • Common Consent Arguments for Belief in God.Marcus Hunt - 2022 - Dialogue: A Journal of Philosophy and Religion (58):17-22.
    A popular introduction to common consent arguments for belief in God.
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