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God and the Girl
Abstract Imagine you are an agnostic who wants to maximise your chances of getting the right answer to the question whether God exists. I show that theism and atheism are not on an epistemic par with one another because, under certain possible epistemically neutral conditions, the rational thing for...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33250541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00295-2 |
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| description | Abstract Imagine you are an agnostic who wants to maximise your chances of getting the right answer to the question whether God exists. I show that theism and atheism are not on an epistemic par with one another because, under certain possible epistemically neutral conditions, the rational thing for you to do from a purely epistemic point of view would be to bet on the atheist’s judgement that God doesn’t exist rather than on the theist’s judgement that God does exist. |
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| spelling | pubmed-76827672020-11-24 God and the Girl Gaultier, Benoit Philosophia (Ramat Gan) Article Abstract Imagine you are an agnostic who wants to maximise your chances of getting the right answer to the question whether God exists. I show that theism and atheism are not on an epistemic par with one another because, under certain possible epistemically neutral conditions, the rational thing for you to do from a purely epistemic point of view would be to bet on the atheist’s judgement that God doesn’t exist rather than on the theist’s judgement that God does exist. Springer Netherlands 2020-11-23 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7682767/ /pubmed/33250541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00295-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
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| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33250541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00295-2 |
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