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643How Process Theology Can Affirm Creation Ex NihiloProcess Studies 29 (1): 77-96. 2000.Most process theologians have rejected the creation of the world out of nothing, holding that our universe was created out of some antecedent universe. This article shows how on process grounds, and with faithfulness to much of what Whitehead had to say, process theologians can and should affirm the creation of our universe out of nothing. Standard process objections to this are refuted.
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621Composition and the cosmological argumentMind 77 (305): 115-117. 1968.This article argues that not all arguments from parts to wholes commit the informal logical fallacy of composition,and especially not the cosmological argument for God which moves from the contingent existence of all the parts of the cosmos to the contingent existence of the whole.
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265The value of man in the Hartman value systemJournal of Value Inquiry 7 (2): 141-147. 1973.This article summarizes and critique’s Robert S. Hartman’s four alleged “proofs for the infinite value of man.” Each “proof” assumes that all individual human beings actually contain within themselves an infinite number of good-making properties, and that this accounts for the literal infinite worth of each. Hartman developed four variations on this central theme. This critique shows that none of his arguments are plausible and none succeed in “proving” their conclusion.
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17Analogies between nature and its partsInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (2). 1976.
Emory University
PhD, 1962
APA Eastern Division
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
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Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Value Theory |
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Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Religion |
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