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This challenging and refreshingly innovative book addresses certain fundamental questions concerning rational legitimacy of some widely held beliefs and provides argument-based answers to such questions, while at the same time encouraging the reader to actively engage with the views put forward and form his/her own judgement.

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Prefatory Note Introduction 1. What Can We Know and What May We Rationally Believe? 2. What Are the Necessary and What Are the Sufficient Conditions of Rational Belief? 3. Can It Ever Be Truly Rational to Believe a Falsehood? 4. Does Natural Science Set a Norm for What Can Be Rationally Believed? 5. Is the Belief in Creation Ex Nihilo a Rationally Sustainable Belief? 6. What Rational Justification Might There Be for Acting Morally? 7. Is the Existence of Rational Beings Merely a Fortuitous By-Product of Natural Selection? Index

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      Publisher: University Press of America
      Publication Date: 6/2/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780761867920, 978-0761867920
      ISBN10: 0761867929

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This challenging and refreshingly innovative book addresses certain fundamental questions concerning rational legitimacy of some widely held beliefs and provides argument-based answers to such questions, while at the same time encouraging the reader to actively engage with the views put forward and form his/her own judgement.

      Table of Contents
      Prefatory Note Introduction 1. What Can We Know and What May We Rationally Believe? 2. What Are the Necessary and What Are the Sufficient Conditions of Rational Belief? 3. Can It Ever Be Truly Rational to Believe a Falsehood? 4. Does Natural Science Set a Norm for What Can Be Rationally Believed? 5. Is the Belief in Creation Ex Nihilo a Rationally Sustainable Belief? 6. What Rational Justification Might There Be for Acting Morally? 7. Is the Existence of Rational Beings Merely a Fortuitous By-Product of Natural Selection? Index

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