TY - JOUR
AU - Vinten, Robert
AB - Guy Axtell’s new book, as the title suggests, is an attempt to assess the limits of reasonable religious disagreement. In trying to delineate those limits Axtell thinks that it is useful to employ the notions of luck and risk in examining how reasonable a particular religious (or atheistic) stance is. A central concern of the book is with religious groups which exclude others in some way and which ascribe traits to those other groups that are very unlike the traits the group ascribes to themselves. For example, a group might describe its own members as being saved but describe members of other similar groups as lost. Axtell thinks that the groups making these kinds of asymmetrical trait ascriptions are subject to a great deal of inductive risk (and so it seems as though the privileged group is lucky to be in the situation it is in, if it is correct about being saved or about being in possession of the truth). Inductive risk is the risk of ‘getting it wrong’ in an inductive context of inquiry. In the introduction to Problems of Religious Luck Axtell cites Heather Douglas’s definition of inductive risk which says that it is “… the 
TI - Guy Axtell: Problems of Religious Luck. Assessing the Limits of Reasonable Religious Disagreement. Lanham: Lexington Books 2019, 290 pages, $95.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-4985-5017-8
JF - Wittgenstein-Studien
DO - 10.1515/witt-2020-0020
DA - 2020-01-20
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/de-gruyter/guy-axtell-problems-of-religious-luck-assessing-the-limits-of-kMci4yeQx5
SP - 319
EP - 330
VL - 11
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -