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    Robertson

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy of Religion

    Robertson is a contemporary philosopher who has contributed to debates on decision theory and philosophy of religion, particularly regarding refinements to Pascal's Wager. His work focuses on the structural limitations of classical decision matrices when applied to theological reasoning.

    Notable Achievements

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    Critiqued the coarse-grained structure of Pascal's original decision matrix

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    Contributed to refinements of decision-theoretic approaches to belief in God

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    Advanced discussions on the 'many gods' objection to Pascal's Wager

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    Natural Theology

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    Pascal's original decision matrix is insufficiently fine-grained because the 'God does not exist' column should be subdivided into additional theistic hypotheses.

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