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Theodore Drange

West Virginia University
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Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Philosophy of Religion
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    Atheism, agnosticism, noncognitivism (1998)
    This online essay puts forth and defends precise definitions of the terms "atheism," "agnosticism." and "[theological] noncognitivism."
    AtheismAgnosticism
  •  31
    Type Crossings: Sentential Meaninglessness in the Border Area of Linguistics and Philosophy
    Walter de Gruyter. 1966.
  •  116
    Reply to Martin on type crossings
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 30 (1): 136-139. 1969.
    THIS IS A DEFENSE OF DRANGE'S BOOK "TYPE CROSSINGS"\n(MOUTON, 1966) AGAINST OBJECTIONS RAISED BY ROBERT MARTIN\nIN HIS DISCUSSION ARTICLE "DRANGE ON TYPE CROSSINGS" (SAME\nISSUE). DRANGE DEFENDS HIS ATTEMPT TO SHOW THAT TYPE\nCROSSINGS (E.G., THE SENTENCE "VIRTUE IS BLUE") ARE BOTH\n(NECESSARILY) FALSE AND (CONCEPTUALLY) MEANINGLESS. HE ALSO\nDEFENDS THE ARGUMENTS PUT FORWARD IN THE BOOK WHICH AIM AT\nREFUTING THE VIEW THAT THERE ARE TYPE=RULES IN EFFECT IN\nORDINARY LANGUAGE. FOR THE MOST PART,…Read more
  •  110
    McHugh’s Expectations Dashed
    Philo 5 (2): 242-248. 2002.
    In “A Refutation of Drange’s Arguments from Evil and Nonbelief” (Philo, vol. 5, no. 1), Christopher McHugh posed his so-calledExpectations Defense against versions of the Argument from Evil and Argument from Nonbelief that appear in my book Nonbelief & Evil. I here raise objections to his defense.
    Divine Hiddenness
  •  79
    Conceptual Problems Confronting a Totally Disembodied Afterlife
    In Keith Augustine & Michael Martin (eds.), The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 329-333. 2015.
    This paper presents and defends an argument for the conclusion that a personal afterlife in the absence of any sort of body at all is not conceptually possible. The main idea behind the argument is that there would be no way for the identities of people in a bodiless state to be established, either by others or by themselves. The argument raises a significant challenge to explaining just how someone in a totally disembodied afterlife could ever be identified—a challenge that has yet to be met.
    Perception and the MindAfterlifeTheories of Personal IdentityThe SoulArguments from Disembodiment
  •  111
    The paradox of the non-communicator
    Philosophical Studies 15 (6): 92-96. 1964.
    Whereas the paradox of the liar has to do with the sentence "This sentence is false," the paradox of the non-communicator has to do with the sentence "This sentence is meaningless." It is argued that the paradox can be used to prove, among other things, that Russell's Theory of Types is false. The argument is defended against various objections.
    Liar Paradox