Dear all, This Thursday at the Serious Metaphysics Group, Natalja Deng will be speaking on `Religion for Atheists' (abstract below). We will meet in the philosophy faculty board room from 1:00-2:30.
Hope to see you there, Georgie Religion for Atheists Some atheists feel an affinity with theistic religions, or with a particular theistic religion. They may have previously belonged to it, and/or been raised in it, and/or be close to people who belong to it, and/or simply feel attracted to its practices, texts and traditions. This raises the question of whether and to what extent an atheist can lead the life of a religious believer. The (sparse) literature on this topic focuses on defenses of a position recognizable as religious fictionalism. I argue that religious fictionalism is problematic, but that that doesn’t detract much from the possibilities for atheist religious practice. I examine the existing proposals, by Robin Le Poidevin, Peter Lipton, Andrew Eshleman, and Howard Wettstein, discuss a variety of objections, and conclude that much of what has been described by these authors survives once the distinctively fictionalist elements of their positions are dropped. -- Georgie Statham PhD Candidate Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
