Papers by Mikael Stenmark
If we accept that many, perhaps most, people have a religious or secular worldview of one kind or... more If we accept that many, perhaps most, people have a religious or secular worldview of one kind or another, an interesting philosophical question is how we-all of us-should think about and act when it comes to choosing (if, indeed, we can choose) a worldview and what attitude we should adopt towards people who have a different worldview. I aim to shed some light on the intellectual and existential conditions for choosing or maintaining a worldview in a situation of significant worldview diversity. I will argue that when we become aware that we have a worldview and start to reflect on its content and its rivals, we should be guided by certain intellectual norms. These are the principle of epistemic conservatism, the fallibilistic principle of belief regulation, the principle of deep concern, the cautious principle of belief revision, and the principle of weak pragmatism. In this article, I will specify, more exactly, the content of these epistemic norms, give concrete examples of how they could and should regulate our religious or secular worldview formation, and give some reasons why we, in the first place, should accept them.
The topic considered is what environmental ethics is and what kind of relevance it could have for... more The topic considered is what environmental ethics is and what kind of relevance it could have for environmental education. Two important pedagogical tasks are discussed: (1) The teacher ability to make the students aware of when different opinions in envi
Religious Studies, 1999
Recension av Anthony O'Hear: Beyond evolution: Human nature and the limitation of evolutionar... more Recension av Anthony O'Hear: Beyond evolution: Human nature and the limitation of evolutionary explanation
Routledge eBooks, Oct 28, 2020
Routledge eBooks, Oct 28, 2020
Det verkar bli allt vanligare i Sverige idag, men ocksa pa andra stallen i varlden, att manniskor... more Det verkar bli allt vanligare i Sverige idag, men ocksa pa andra stallen i varlden, att manniskor tycker att det ar nagot markligt med att tro pa Gud eller att vara religios. Gudstron utgor inte langre en reell mojlighet utan framstar for manga som nagot ofornuftigt, irrationellt och ovetenskapligt. Vissa uppfattar till och med religion som ett direkt hot mot ett civiliserat och demokratiskt samhalle. Detta utgor en utmaning for verksamma och blivande larare i religionskunskap, som ar den huvudsakliga malgruppen for denna bok. I Att undervisa om manniskosyner och gudsuppfattningar finns bidrag som diskuterar mindre kanda omraden i och utanfor "varldsreligionernas" landskap, men det finns ocksa kapitel som fordjupar och breddar perspektiven pa till exempel hinduism, kristendom och islam. Boken behandlar fragan om manniskosyn och gudsuppfattningar inom religionens omrade ur ett mer generellt perspektiv, men tar aven upp dessa fragor relaterat till sekulara livsaskadningar, a...
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
In this essay, I maintain that although atheism, minimally construed, consists simply of the beli... more In this essay, I maintain that although atheism, minimally construed, consists simply of the belief that there is no God or gods, atheists must embrace a secular worldview of one kind or another. Since they cannot be without a worldview, atheists must develop an alternative to the religious, especially the theistic, worldviews which they, by implication, reject. Further, I argue that there are, at the very least, two options available to atheists and that these should not be conflated or treated as one and the same. The two options that I explore and distinguish are scientism and secular humanism. I also maintain that the things that might count as good grounds for or against secular or religious worldviews are shaped significantly by whether atheists embrace scientism or secular humanism.
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Papers by Mikael Stenmark