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9The Christian Scheme of SalvationIn Thomas V. Morris (ed.), Philosophy and the Christian Faith, Univ. of Notre Dame Press. pp. 13-30. 1988.FAILURE TO OBSERVE OBLIGATIONS PRODUCES OBJECTIVE GUILT; FAILURE TO OBSERVE BELIEVED OBLIGATIONS PRODUCES SUBJECTIVE GUILT. A GUILTY PERSON MUST MAKE ATONEMENT. ATONEMENT CONSISTS OF REPENTANCE, APOLOGY, REPARATION AND PENANCE. THE PROCESS OF UNDOING THE WRONG IS COMPLETED WHEN THE WRONGED PERSON FORGIVES. NO ONE CAN MAKE THE GUILTY ONE’S REPENTANCE AND APOLOGY FOR HIM, BUT ANOTHER CAN PROVIDE THE MEANS OF REPARATION AND PENANCE. WHEN HUMANS SIN AGAINST GOD THEY NEED TO APOLOGISE WITH REPENTANCE…Read more
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9The Rationality of Theism (edited book)Rodopi. 2000.This is a controversial collection of brand new papers by some outstanding philosophers and scholars. Its aim is to offer comprehensive theistic replies to the traditional arguments against the existence of God.
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8¿Hay Un Dios?Ediciones Sígueme. 2012.Argues that there is a God. Spanish short version of The Existence of God.
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8Por qué Hume y Kant se equivocaron al rechazar la teología naturalEstudios Filosóficos 61 (177): 209-225. 2012.
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7Evil does not show that there is no GodIn Brian Davies (ed.), Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology, Oxford University Press. pp. 599--613. 2000.
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7Selections from Personal identity : the dualist theoryIn John P. Lizza (ed.), Defining the beginning and end of life: readings on personal identity and bioethics, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2009.
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7Arguments for the existence of GodIn J. Houston (ed.), Is it reasonable to believe in God?, Handsel Press. 1984.In an inductive argument data increase the probability of a hypothesis insofar as the hypothesis makes probable the data, the data are otherwise not likely to occur, and the hypothesis is simple. The cosmological argument from the existence of the universe, the teleological argument from its conformity to natural law, and other arguments from more detailed features of the universe each increase the probability that there is a God. I thus summarize in a simple form the main points of my book The …Read more
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6Review of R. D. Rosenkrantz: Inference, Method and Decision (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 29 (3): 301-304. 1978.
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6Review of Elliott Sober: Simplicity (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 27 (4): 412-414. 1976.
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6Why God allows evilIn Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, Oxford University Press Usa. 2000.
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6Comments on Some Aspects of Peter Unger's Identity, Consciousness and ValuePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1): 145-148. 1992.
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6Law and Explanation: An Essay in the Philosophy of SciencePhilosophical Quarterly 22 (89): 375-377. 1972.
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5Introduction to Bayes's TheoremIn Bayes’s Theorem, Oxford University Press. 2002.This is an introduction to a collected volume. It distinguishes between evidential, statistical, and physical probability, and between objective and subjective understandings of evidential probability, in the use of Bayes’s theorem. If Bayes’s theorem is to be used to assess an objective evidential probability, a priori criteria--mainly the criterion of simplicity--are required to determine prior probability. The five main contributors to the volume discuss the use of Bayes’s theorem to assess t…Read more
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5A Existência de DeusPrincípios 15 (23): 271-190. 2008.Conferência apresentada no Departamento de Filosofia da UFRN, no dia 22 de novembro de 2007. Título original: “The Existence of God”
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5The justification of inductionRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 165 (2): 183-184. 1974.