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44Bob and Carol and tess and AliSophia 45 (2): 117-122. 2006.Conflicting religious experiences in different traditions do not necessarily defeat the rationality of conflicting beliefs sustained by those experiences in those traditions. The circularity that protects religious beliefs from such mutual defeat is not vicious. Moreover, the lack of ‘epistemological humility’ exhibited by such believers poses no threat to world peace. In fact, a campaign for compulsory humility would itself constitute a much greater threat
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67Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency, by Timothy O'ConnorMind 118 (471): 862-867. 2009.
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15Science and Belief in God: Concord, not ConflictIn Paul Copan & Paul K. Moser (eds.), The Rationality of Theism, Routledge. pp. 77. 2003.
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36Molinism: The Contemporary Debate, edited by Ken PerszykFaith and Philosophy 30 (3): 345-353. 2013.
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91Defeasible reasoning, special pleading and the cosmological argument: A reply to OppyFaith and Philosophy 18 (2): 192-203. 2001.This is a reply to a paper by Graham Oppy in the July, 1999 issue of this journal, “Koons’ Cosmological Argument.” Recent work in defeasible or nonmonotonic logic means that the cosmological argument can be cast in such a way that it does not presuppose that every contingent situation, without exception, has a cause. Instead, the burden of proof is shifted to the skeptic, who must produce positive reasons for thinking that the cosmos is an exception to the defeasible law of causality. I show how…Read more
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82Realism Regained: An Exact Theory of Causation, Teleology, and the MindOxford University Press. 2000.In this wide-ranging philosophical work, Koons takes on two powerful dogmas--anti-realism and materialism.
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71Taking Pascal’s Wager: Faith, Evidence and the Abundant Life. By Michael Rota (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 91 (2): 328-331. 2017.
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3697St. Thomas Aquinas on Intelligent DesignProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85 79-97. 2011.Recently, the Intelligent Design (ID) movement has challenged the claim of many in the scientific establishment that nature gives no empirical signs of having been deliberately designed. In particular, ID arguments in biology dispute the notion that neo-Darwinian evolution is the only viable scientific explanation of the origin of biological novelty, arguing that there are telltale signs of the activity of intelligence which can be recognized and studied empirically. In recent years, a number of…Read more
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