On Friday July 5th at 4pm, Dr. Daniele Moyal-Sharrock will be joining the Wittgenstein Reading Group at Heythrop College to answer questions relating to her paper 'Logic in Action: Wittgenstein's Logical Pragmatism and the Impotence of Scepticism'. This is a real privilege and a chance to engage with one of the finest contemporary interpreters of Wittgenstein's philosophy. For more info (including a copy of the paper) email Adrian Brockless: a.brockless@heythrop.ac.uk.
(Published in Faith and Philosophy 2011. Volume 28, Issue 2, April 2011. Stephen Law. Pages 129-151) EVIDENCE, MIRACLES AND THE EXISTENCE OF JESUS Stephen Law Abstract The vast majority of Biblical historians believe there is evidence sufficient to place Jesus’ existence beyond reasonable doubt. Many believe the New Testament documents alone suffice firmly to establish Jesus as an actual, historical figure. I question these views. In particular, I argue (i) that the three most popular criteria by which various non-miraculous New Testament claims made about Jesus are supposedly corroborated are not sufficient, either singly or jointly, to place his existence beyond reasonable doubt, and (ii) that a prima facie plausible principle concerning how evidence should be assessed – a principle I call the contamination principle – entails that, given the large proportion of uncorroborated miracle claims made about Jesus in the New Testament documents, we should, in the absence of indepen
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