God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity

When it comes to what many of us think of as the deepest questions of existence, the answers can seem difficult to make out. This difficulty, or ambiguity, is the topic of this Element. The Element begins by offering a general account of what evidential ambiguity consists in and uses it to try to make sense of the idea that our world is religiously ambiguous in some sense. It goes on to consider the questions of how we ought to investigate the nature of ultimate reality and whether evidential ambiguity is itself a significant piece of evidence in the quest.

List of contents

1. What is the problem of evidential ambiguity?; 2. The nature and sources of evidential ambiguity; 3. Five ways to be ambiguous; 4. Seeking truth amidst ambiguity; 5. Evidential ambiguity as evidence in its own right; Bibliographies.

Product details

• Authors: Max Baker-Hytch, Max (University of Oxford) Baker-Hytch
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2024
• EAN: 9781009269872
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0926987-2
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in the Problems of God
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge