Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures vii
Foreword Rob Barrett viii
Acknowledgments xii
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: We Are All Heretics Now xv
The Heretical Imperative xv
Defining Disagreement xviii
Structure of the Book xx
1 We Have Been Here Before 1
1.1 Malleable Men and the Council of the Wise: Plato and Aristotle 2
1.2 Varieties of Goodness: Augustine and Aquinas 10
1.3 Method Men: Bacon and Descartes 20
1.4 From Natural War to Perpetual Peace: Hobbes, Locke, and Kant 25
1.5 Beyond Enlightenment: Nietzsche, Hamann, and Contemporary Voices 33
2 Programmed to Disagree? 46
2.1 Constrained and Confused Minds 47
2.2 The Nature of Human Rationality and Decision-Making 59
2.3 Cognitive Biases 69
2.4 Two Hemispheres, Two Ways of Thinking 73
2.5 On Being Right(eous) 76
2.6 Human Cognition and Religious Disagreement 80
3 Science, Philosophy, and Religious Disagreement 85
3.1 Scientific Perspectives on Religion 86
3.2 Naturalistic Accounts of Religion 91
3.3 Religion and Violence 99
3.4 Philosophy of Religious Disagreement 115
3.5 Reacting to Disagreement: A Dynamic View 133
4 Disagreeing Virtuously 138
4.1 The Nature of Virtue 139
4.2 Virtues of Disagreement 157
4.3 Tolerance as a Virtue 169
4.4 Religious Disagreement and Virtue 176
Bibliography 187
Index 204
