{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4366272180","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412523000227","title":"Religion, hypocrisy, and betting on secularity: reversing Smilansky's wager","display_name":"Religion, hypocrisy, and betting on secularity: reversing Smilansky's wager","publication_year":2023,"publication_date":"2023-04-18","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4366272180","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412523000227"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1017/s0034412523000227","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412523000227","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034412523000227","pdf_url":"https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/0A33DD0BB45EA7A53E0B9D3D48D90ADD/S0034412523000227a.pdf/div-class-title-religion-hypocrisy-and-betting-on-secularity-reversing-smilansky-s-wager-div.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S124201077","display_name":"Religious Studies","issn_l":"0034-4125","issn":["0034-4125","1469-901X"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-scientific","cwts-core","erih-plus","jufo-2","norway-1","poland-100","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Religious Studies","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"hybrid","oa_url":"https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/0A33DD0BB45EA7A53E0B9D3D48D90ADD/S0034412523000227a.pdf/div-class-title-religion-hypocrisy-and-betting-on-secularity-reversing-smilansky-s-wager-div.pdf","any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5055576076","display_name":"Samuel Lebens","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9975-7422","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9975-7422"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I91203450","display_name":"University of Haifa","ror":"https://ror.org/02f009v59","country_code":"IL","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I91203450"]}],"countries":["IL"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Samuel Lebens","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9975-7422","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I91203450"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5049537619","display_name":"Daniel Statman","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3255-8039","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3255-8039"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I91203450","display_name":"University of Haifa","ror":"https://ror.org/02f009v59","country_code":"IL","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I91203450"]}],"countries":["IL"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Daniel Statman","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I91203450"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5055576076"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I91203450"],"apc_list":{"value":3255,"currency":"USD","value_usd":3255},"apc_paid":{"value":3255,"currency":"USD","value_usd":3255},"fwci":29.3901,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":22,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.99482443,"is_in_top_1_percent":true,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":88,"max":100},"biblio":{"volume":"60","issue":"1","first_page":"174","last_page":"186"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13150","display_name":"Study and Philosophy of Religion","score":0.7113999724388123,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1211","display_name":"Philosophy"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13150","display_name":"Study and Philosophy of Religion","score":0.7113999724388123,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1211","display_name":"Philosophy"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11477","display_name":"Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics","score":0.11840000003576279,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1211","display_name":"Philosophy"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10297","display_name":"Philosophical Ethics and Theory","score":0.03229999914765358,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1211","display_name":"Philosophy"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/pascal-s-wager","display_name":"Pascal's wager","score":0.859000027179718},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/secularism","display_name":"secularism","score":0.49000000953674316},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/religion","display_name":"religion","score":0.46799999475479126},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/hypocrisy","display_name":"hypocrisy","score":0.7540000081062317},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/proof-by-contradiction","display_name":"reductio ad absurdum","score":0.7269999980926514},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/existence-of-god","display_name":"existence of God","score":0.6470000147819519},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/religious-beliefs","display_name":"religious beliefs","score":0.30799999833106995}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2775874189","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201650","display_name":"Hypocrisy","level":2,"score":0.7924916744232178},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.7533029317855835},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776074554","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15303501","display_name":"Secularity","level":2,"score":0.7070763111114502},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2781085045","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7318308","display_name":"Reversing","level":2,"score":0.6415212750434875},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.49616584181785583},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C27206212","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34178","display_name":"Theology","level":1,"score":0.4019429385662079},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C159985019","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181790","display_name":"Composite material","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C192562407","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q228736","display_name":"Materials science","level":0,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1017/s0034412523000227","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412523000227","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034412523000227","pdf_url":"https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/0A33DD0BB45EA7A53E0B9D3D48D90ADD/S0034412523000227a.pdf/div-class-title-religion-hypocrisy-and-betting-on-secularity-reversing-smilansky-s-wager-div.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S124201077","display_name":"Religious Studies","issn_l":"0034-4125","issn":["0034-4125","1469-901X"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-scientific","cwts-core","erih-plus","jufo-2","norway-1","poland-100","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Religious Studies","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.1017/s0034412523000227","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412523000227","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034412523000227","pdf_url":"https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/0A33DD0BB45EA7A53E0B9D3D48D90ADD/S0034412523000227a.pdf/div-class-title-religion-hypocrisy-and-betting-on-secularity-reversing-smilansky-s-wager-div.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S124201077","display_name":"Religious Studies","issn_l":"0034-4125","issn":["0034-4125","1469-901X"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-scientific","cwts-core","erih-plus","jufo-2","norway-1","poland-100","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Religious Studies","raw_type":"journal-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"sustainable_development_goals_aurora":[{"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/8","score":0.6399999856948853,"display_name":"Decent work and economic growth"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":true,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W4366272180.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W4366272180.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":21,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W46534381","https://openalex.org/W140039176","https://openalex.org/W1504959782","https://openalex.org/W1711204715","https://openalex.org/W1977514274","https://openalex.org/W2035949073","https://openalex.org/W2079318860","https://openalex.org/W2109200089","https://openalex.org/W2129721384","https://openalex.org/W2149893809","https://openalex.org/W2171306604","https://openalex.org/W2767741086","https://openalex.org/W2781678836","https://openalex.org/W2886059585","https://openalex.org/W3126517276","https://openalex.org/W3135362350","https://openalex.org/W4210788484","https://openalex.org/W4213424449","https://openalex.org/W4220791820","https://openalex.org/W4252935746","https://openalex.org/W4306165480"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W7160661226","https://openalex.org/W4306165480","https://openalex.org/W3135362350","https://openalex.org/W2985219864","https://openalex.org/W4283730891","https://openalex.org/W7013330449","https://openalex.org/W2129852443","https://openalex.org/W4241244907","https://openalex.org/W7131406908","https://openalex.org/W1993378362"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Abstract":[0],"Saul":[1],"Smilansky":[2],"presents":[3],"us":[4],"with":[5,11],"a":[6,12,21,31,75],"puzzle":[7],"which,":[8],"in":[9],"combination":[10],"small":[13],"number":[14],"of":[15,23,41,77],"premises,":[16],"is":[17,69],"supposed":[18],"to":[19,71],"generate":[20],"reversal":[22,76],"Pascal's":[24],"wager:":[25],"the":[26,38,53,61],"wagerer":[27],"should":[28],"bet":[29],"on":[30],"secular":[32],"lifestyle,":[33],"and":[34,65,74],"reject":[35],"religion,":[36],"as":[37],"surest":[39],"way":[40],"pleasing":[42],"God":[43,45],"(if":[44],"exists).":[46],"In":[47],"this":[48],"article,":[49],"we":[50],"argue":[51],"that":[52,60,66],"puzzle,":[54],"once":[55],"unpacked,":[56],"isn't":[57],"particularly":[58],"puzzling,":[59],"premises":[62],"aren't":[63],"true,":[64],"Smilansky's":[67],"wager":[68],"open":[70],"both":[72],"reductio":[73],"its":[78],"own.":[79]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":17},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-10-16T09:59:22.235173","created_date":"2023-04-20T00:00:00"}