'God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity' by Max Baker-Hytch

Event details

Date: Monday 25th November 2024

Time: 5:15 pm

Venue: Wycliffe Hall, 52-54 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PW

The event includes:

• A Welcome from Revd Dr Michael Lloyd, Principal of Wycliffe Hall
• An Introduction then Lizibeth Fischer (DPhil candidate in philosophy of religion) will be interviewing Max about the book.
• Opportunity for questions to Max from the audience
• Refreshments
• Book signing and sales

Getting here: Wycliffe Hall is on major bus routes. Limited parking may be available on site (please contact us by email if you have any special access requirements) and pay-and-display on-street parking is available close by in Norham Gardens. 

All are welcome: the event is free to attend and booking is not required. 

About Max Baker-Hytch

Max received his DPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford in 2014. Subsequently he held research positions at the University of Oxford and the University of Notre Dame, before taking up his position as Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Wycliffe Hall in 2026.

Max has published more than a dozen scholarly articles and book chapters on various topics within the fields of philosophy of religion and epistemology, especially relating to questions around the rationality of religious belief, religious experience, and the epistemology of disagreement. He has participated in a number of public dialogues on these topics, including on Premier’s Unbelievable show.

Max is married and has two daughters, and for fun, he enjoys composing instrumental music with guitars and keyboards in his home studio.

About God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity

When it comes to what many of us think of as the deepest questions of existence, the answers can seem difficult to make out. This difficulty, or ambiguity, is the topic of this book.

The book begins by offering a general account of what evidential ambiguity consists in and uses it to try to make sense of the idea that our world is religiously ambiguous in some sense.

It goes on to consider the questions of how we ought to investigate the nature of ultimate reality and whether evidential ambiguity is itself a significant piece of evidence in the quest.