Come hear Dr. Travis Dumsday, Canadian Research Chair in Theology and the Philosophy of Science at Concordia University of Edmonton, present a talk on "Evidentially Compelling Religious Experiences and the Moral Status of Naturalism."
Religious experiences come in a variety of types, including 'evidentially compelling religious experience' (ECRE). The nature of an ECRE is such that if it actually occurs, its occurrence plausibly entails the falsity of metaphysical naturalism (i.e., the idea that the only kind of reality is physical reality). After presenting some case studies of ECREs, I argue that for most settled metaphysical naturalists (though not all), the combination of a settled metaphysical naturalism with an awareness of the relative commonality of testimony to ECREs is either irrational or immoral.
February 27, 2019
4:00 pm
SJC boardroom
Free lecture open to the public. No RSVP required.