THE CHALLENGE OF BELIEF

What we are doing instead is telling Anna that we have decided that p1 itself is wrong and using coercive force to keep her from acting as belief in p1 disposes her to act.5 The example comes to mind in response to Ronald Dworkin's final book, Religion Without God. [...]his untimely death last year, Dworkin was perhaps our foremost philosopher of law, and certainly among the staunchest defenders of liberalism. [...]in many ways (true, not all!) the church was foundational to the Enlightenment, a point established long ago by historians, among them Peter Gay,46 Brian Tierney,47 and of course, most famously, Harold Berman.48 Dworkin has gone to a great deal of trouble to understand the physics that so fascinates him but has done very little to understand the villains of his essay. [...]when referring to the advocates of intelligent design, he has this to say: "[T]hey are part of a national campaign of the so-called religious right to increase the role of godly religion in public life.