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6From Physicalism to Theological IdealismIn Martina Fürst, Wolfgang Gombocz & Christian Hiebaum (eds.), Gehirne und Personen, Ontos. 2009.In the first part elements and entailments of an adequate thesis of physicalism are presented. In the second part an argument against these is elaborated. Based on this argument a thesis of theological idealism is sketched.
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21Wissenschaft ist PanentheismusIn Göcke Benedikt Paul & Wasmaier-Sailer Margit (eds.), Idealismus und natürliche Theologie, Verlag Karl Alber. 2011.The paper deals with Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's (1781-1832) Panentheism and argues for an holistic philosophy of science based on idealistic premisses.
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67There is no Panentheistic ParadigmHeythrop Journal 63 (1): 49-56. 2022.The Heythrop Journal, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 49-56, January 2022.
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390István Aranyosi, God, Mind, and Logical Space: A Revisionary Approach to DivinityEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (4): 264--268. 2015.
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78Concepts of God and Models of the God–world relationPhilosophy Compass 12 (2). 2017.There is a variety of concepts of the divine in the eastern and western theological and philosophical traditions. There is, however, not enough reflection on the logic behind concepts of God and their justification. I clarify some necessary and sufficient conditions any attempt to explicate a concept of God has to take into account. I argue that each concept of God is a cypher for a particular worldview and distinguishes three types of justification frequently used to bestow content on particula…Read more
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610An Analytic Theologian's Stance on the Existence of GodEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 5 (2): 129--146. 2013.The existence of God is once again the focus of vivid philosophical discussion. From the point of view of analytic theology, however, people often talk past each other when they debate about the putative existence or nonexistence of God. In the worst case, for instance, atheists deny the existence of a God, which no theists ever claimed to exist. In order to avoid confusions like this we need to be clear about the function of the term 'God' in its different contexts of use. In what follows, I di…Read more
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230What is physicalism?Ratio 22 (3): 291-307. 2009.Although 'most contemporary analytic philosophers [endorse] a physicalist picture of the world' (A. Newen; V. Hoffmann; M. Esfeld, 'Preface to Mental Causation, Externalism and Self-Knowledge', Erkenntnis , 67 (2007), p. 147), it is unclear what exactly the physicalist thesis states. The response that physicalism is the thesis that everything is physical does not solve the problem but is a precise statement of the problem because 'the claim is hopelessly vague' (G. Hellman; F. Thompson, 'Physica…Read more
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48Reviews personal agency: The metaphysics of mind and action . By E. J. Lowe. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2008, pp. 240, £19.99 (review)Philosophy 85 (2): 302-306. 2010.
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62God, Soul, and Time in Priest and SwinburneNew Blackfriars 89 (1024): 730-738. 2008.Contra Swinburne I argue that God cannot exist within time. There is a sufficient condition for its being now now. Because the conception of God existing within time cannot account for this condition, it has to be rejected. Based on Priest I argue that God's creative act is this: to cause the actuality of the universe within the soul.
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62Am I Divine?New Blackfriars 91 (1034): 386-400. 2010.On the one hand, arguably, I am neither this nor that. Arguably, neither is God this or that – so, am I God? Otherwise it seems that I must be this and God must be that. On the other hand, the being of the universe is not something of which I could plausibly be construed as the ultimate cause. That is God's creative act. Because I do not create the universe, I am not God. So I am God and I am not God. Here's a solution: God is One but also Three, I am but one
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97Priest and Nagel on Being Someone: A Refutation of PhysicalismHeythrop Journal 49 (4): 648-651. 2008.Physicalism entails that a possible world which is a minimal physical duplicate of the actual world be a duplicate simpliciter of the actual world. Because what I really am is not a particular human being, there exists a minimal physical duplicate of the actual world which is not a duplicate simpliciter of the actual world. Therefore, physicalism is false.
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46Did god do it? Metaphysical models and theological hermeneuticsInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 78 (2): 215-231. 2015.I start by way of clarifying briefly the problem of special divine intervention. Once this is done, I argue that laws of nature are generalizations that derive from the dispositional behaviour of natural kinds. Based on this conception of laws of nature I provide a metaphysical model according to which God can realize acts of special divine providence by way of temporarily changing the dispositions of natural entities. I show that this model does not contradict scientific practice and is consist…Read more
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48Idealismus und natürliche Theologie (edited book)Verlag Karl Alber. 2011.Insofern die Frage nach Gott die Mitte der Religion ist, ist die philosophische Reflexion der Rede von Gott wesentlich für das Selbstverständnis von Religion. Die natürliche Theologie als philosophisches Nachdenken über Gott nimmt somit da, wo es um Religion geht, eine zentrale Stellung ein. Dieser Sammelband fragt nach der Tragfähigkeit und Relevanz des Deutschen Idealismus für die gegenwärtige natürliche Theologie. Die Beiträge zeigen, inwieweit sich aus den Systemen Kants und der Idealisten K…Read more
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44Reply to Raphael LatesterSophia 53 (3): 397-400. 2014.An important task of philosophy is to provide substantial arguments concerning the basic structure of reality and its relation to the ultimate source of everything. Sometimes, philosophers are convinced that there is an absolutely certain starting point within philosophy. More often, however, they suppose that we start with certain intuitions about empirical reality and its source. Based on these intuitions, philosophers try to develop sound arguments with an intelligible logical structure. By t…Read more
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8How to Heckle Swinburne on God and TimeIn Nicola Mößner, Sebastian Schmoranzer & Christian Weidemann (eds.), Richard Swinburne. Christian Philosophy in a Modern World, Ontos. 2008.
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156After Physicalism (edited book)The University of Notre Dame Press. 2012.Although physicalism has been the dominant position in recent work in the philosophy of mind, this dominance has not prevented a small but growing number of philosophers from arguing that physicalism is untenable for several reasons: both ontologically and epistemologically it cannot reduce mentality to the realm of the physical, and its attempts to reduce subjectivity to objectivity have thoroughly failed. The contributors to After Physicalism provide powerful alternatives to the physicalist ac…Read more
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230Alles in Gott?: Zur Aktualität des Panentheismus Karl Christian Friedrich KrausesVerlag Friedrich Pustet. 2012.Karl Christian Friedrich Krause war ein bemerkenswerter Denker des Deutschen Idealismus. Seine Schriften können ohne Zweifel mit denen Hegels, Schellings und Fichtes konkurrieren. Gerade im Bereich der theoretischen Philosophie bietet das Krausesche Œuvre eine Fundgrube an Einsichten und Argumenten, die der heutigen, oftmals betont postmodernen oder atheistischen Philosophie eine dringend benötigte Kontrastfolie sein können. Sinn und Zweck der Arbeit ist es, den Panentheismus Krauses zeitgemäß d…Read more
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475The Many Problems of Special Divine ActionEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (4): 23--36. 2015.Special divine action is an integral part of the Christian worldview. In fact, the plausibility of the Christian worldview depends on and is grounded in the putative reality, and therefore possibility, of special divine action. Without special divine action, Scripture does not make sense, and without Scripture, Christianity neither. However, the possibility of special divine action is highly contested in almost every field of human enquiry. In what follows, I briefly suggest a minimal definition…Read more
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52Persons: Human and divine – Peter Van Inwagen and Dean ZimmermanPhilosophical Quarterly 59 (234): 179-184. 2009.No Abstract
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67Did god know it? God’s relation to a world of chance and randomnessInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 78 (2): 233-254. 2015.A common type of argument against the existence of God is to argue that certain essential features associated with the existence of God are inconsistent with certain other features to be found in the actual world. for an analysis of the different ways to deploy the term “God” in philosophical and theological discourse and for an analysis of the logical form of arguments for and against the existence of God.) A recent example of this type of argument against the existence of God is based on the a…Read more
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218On the importance of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's panentheismZygon 48 (2): 364-379. 2013.Panentheism is an often-discussed alternative to Classical theism, and almost any discussion of panentheism starts by way of acknowledging Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832) as the person who coined the term.1 However, apart from this tribute, Krause's own panentheism is almost completely unknown. In what follows, I first present a brief overview of Krause's life and correct some misconceptions of his work before I turn to the core ideas of Krause's own panentheistic system of philosoph…Read more
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101Spirituality as a rhetorical precondition for knowledge of GodHeythrop Journal 51 (6): 1011-1016. 2010.In a first step I show that given a philosophically<br>warranted concept of God, arguments for<br>the existence of God are either questionbegging<br>or merely stipulative. In a second step<br>I argue that non-stipulative knowledge of God<br>and His existence is intelligible if and only if<br>there is an intellectual intuition of God. I<br>further argue that to obtain this intuition,<br>spiritual training may be necessary. Consistently<br>in this latter case, spirituality becomes a<br>conditio si…Read more
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University of OxfordResearcher
Munich School of Philosophy
Alumnus, 2013
Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
19th Century Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |