Sinai for the Coffee Table: Birds, Bedouins and Desert Wanderlust
In: MERIP Middle East report: Middle East research and information projekt, MERIP, Heft 150, S. 40
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In: MERIP Middle East report: Middle East research and information projekt, MERIP, Heft 150, S. 40
In: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 67-81
A large chorus of voices has grown around the claim that theistic belief is epistemically suspect since, as some cognitive scientists have hypothesized, such beliefs are a byproduct of cognitive mechanisms which evolved for rather different adaptive purposes. This paper begins with an overview of the pertinent cognitive science followed by a short discussion of some relevant epistemic concepts. Working from within a largely Williamsonian framework, we then present two different ways in which this research can be formulated into an argument against theistic belief. We argue that neither version works.