Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief: Disagreement and Evolution - Hardcover

...a valuable addition to the growing literature on the serious skeptical challenges to moral and religious belief posed by disagreement and evolution. (Diego E. Machuca, Philosophy in Review.)

The book is rich and heterogeneous ... a readable and stimulating set of papers. Challenges to religious and moral beliefs from disagreement and evolution have become prominent in the philosophical literature, and an edited collection on these topics is timely ... This book would work well as a set of readings for graduate or advanced undergraduate seminars in philosophy of religion or ethics (Helen De Cruz, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)

Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief contains fourteen original essays by philosophers, theologians, and social scientists on challenges to moral and religious belief from disagreement and evolution. Three main questions are addressed: Can one reasonably maintain one's moral and religious beliefs in the face of interpersonal disagreement with intellectual peers? Does disagreement about morality between a religious belief source, such as a sacred text, and a non-religious belief source, such as a society's moral intuitions, make it irrational to continue trusting one or both of those belief sources? Should evolutionary accounts of the origins of our moral beliefs and our religious beliefs undermine our confidence in their veracity? This volume places challenges to moral belief side-by-side with challenges to religious belief, sets evolution-based challenges alongside disagreement-based challenges, and includes philosophical perspectives together with theological and social science perspectives, with the aim of cultivating insights and lines of inquiry that are easily missed within a single discipline or when these topics are treated in isolation. The result is a collection of essays―representing both skeptical and non-skeptical positions about morality and religion―that move these discussions forward in new and illuminating directions.