LEADER 03432nam 22005175 450 001 9910349559503321 005 20200630024933.0 010 $a3-030-25454-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-25454-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000008743035 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5838949 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-25454-4 035 $a(PPN)26750800X 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008743035 100 $a20190724d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRorty, Liberal Democracy, and Religious Certainty /$fby Neil Gascoigne 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Pivot,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (122 pages) 311 $a3-030-25453-4 327 $aChapter 1: Pragmatist Fideism as Cultural Poltiics -- Chapter 2: Rorty, Religion and the Public Square -- Chapter 3: Presumptions of Innocence -- Chapter 4: Living Certainties -- Chapter 5: Pragmatist Fideism and Epistemological Peace. 330 $aThis book asks whether there any limits to the sorts of religious considerations that can be raised in public debates, and if there are, by whom they are to be identified. Its starting point is the work of Richard Rorty, whose pragmatic pluralism leads him to argue for a politically motivated anticlericalism rather than an epistemologically driven atheism. Rather than defend Rorty?s position directly, Gascoigne argues for an epistemological stance he calls ?Pragmatist Fideism?. The starting point for this exercise in what Rorty calls ?Cultural Politics? is an acknowledgement that one must appeal to both secularists and those with religious commitments. In recent years ?reformed? epistemologists have aimed to establish a parity of epistemic esteem between religious and perceptual beliefs by exploiting an analogy in respect of their mutual vulnerability to sceptical challenges. Through an examination of this analogy, and in light of Wittgenstein?s On Certainty, this book argues that understood correctly the ?parity? argument in fact lends epistemological support to the argument that religious considerations should not be raised in public debate. The political price paid?paying the price of politics?is worth it: the religious thinker is provided with a good reason for maintaining that their practices and beliefs are not undermined by other forms of religious life. 606 $aEpistemology 606 $aPolitical philosophy 606 $aReligion?Philosophy 606 $aEpistemology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E13000 606 $aPolitical Philosophy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E37000 606 $aPhilosophy of Religion$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E33000 615 0$aEpistemology. 615 0$aPolitical philosophy. 615 0$aReligion?Philosophy. 615 14$aEpistemology. 615 24$aPolitical Philosophy. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Religion. 676 $a200.1 676 $a121 700 $aGascoigne$b Neil$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0896682 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910349559503321 996 $aRorty, Liberal Democracy, and Religious Certainty$92266026 997 $aUNINA