{"id":133,"date":"2015-05-18T13:02:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T12:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=133"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:07:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:07:18","slug":"belief-and-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/belief-and-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Belief and Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clayton Littlejohn\/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Daniel Weiss<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"sys_16\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/forum-for-european-philos\/belief-and-evidence\">Listen to podcast<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monday 18 May, 6.30-8pm<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"sys_16\" title=\"Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/artshums\/depts\/philosophy\/people\/staff\/academic\/littlejohn\/index.aspx\">Clayton Littlejohn<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in Philosophy, King\u2019s College London<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"sys_16\" title=\"Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.divinity.cam.ac.uk\/directory\/daniel-weiss\">Daniel Weiss<\/a><\/strong>, Polonsky-Coexist Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n<p>Chair:\u00a0<strong><a class=\"sys_0 sys_t195667\" title=\"Fellow: Peter Dennis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/whosWho\/Fellow-Peter-Dennis.aspx\">Peter Dennis<\/a><\/strong>, LSE Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n<p>The Enlightenment philosopher David Hume tells us that \u2018a wise man proportions his belief to his evidence.\u2019 And according to W.K. Clifford, \u2018it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence\u2019. But is believing without evidence really wrong, and if so what are we to make of religious beliefs? To answer these questions, we will bring together an epistemologist and a philosopher of religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton Littlejohn\/\u00a0Daniel Weiss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[40,62,39],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-epistemology","tag-philosophy-of-religion","tag-rationality"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/interview-wide2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-29","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12550,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/12550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}