Agnosticism Explorations in Philosophy and Religious Thought

by Fallon, Francis; Hyman, Gavin

• ISBN13: 9780198859123
• ISBN10: 0198859120
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-12-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Francis Fallon, Assistant Professor, St John's University, New York,Gavin Hyman, Senior Lecturer, University of Lancaster

Francis Fallon is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St John's University, New York, USA. He studied at Trinity College Dublin, Queens' College, Cambridge, and at the University of Lancaster, UK. Fallon primarily publishes in the Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Science. His current projects include empirical work on consciousness (supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation's Accelerating Consciousness Research initiative). Fallon is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Long Island Philosophical Society.

Gavin Hyman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at the University of Lancaster, UK. He was educated at the University of Exeter and Peterhouse, Cambridge. Hyman has also held Visiting Fellowships at Mansfield College, Oxford, and Hatfield College, University of Durham. His publications include The Predicament of Postmodern Theology (2001), New Directions in Philosophical Theology (editor, 2004), A Short History of Atheism (2010), Traversing the Middle: Ethics, Politics, Religion (2013) and Confronting Secularism in Europe and India (co-editor, 2014).

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The New Agnosticism, Robin Le Poidevin
2. What is Wrong with Agnostic Belief?, Yuval Avnur
3. If Agnosticism, Then What?, Francis Fallon
4. New Agnosticism, Imaginative Challenge and Religious Experience, David Leech
5. Hegel, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Agnosticism, Gavin Hyman
6. Aquinas and Agnosticism, Paul O'Grady
7. Redeeming Agnosticism: Richard Kearney's Anatheistic Wager, Guy Collins