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74Faith and ReasonOxford University Press UK. 1981.Richard Swinburne presents a new edition of the final volume of his acclaimed trilogy on philosophical theology. Faith and Reason is a self-standing examination of the implications for religious faith of Swinburne's famous arguments about the coherence of theism and the existence of God.By practising a particular religion, a person seeks to achieve some or all of three goals - that he worships and obeys God, gains salvation for himself, and helps others to attain their salvation. But not all rel…Read more
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153What kind of necessary being could God be?In Miroslaw Szatkowski (ed.), Ontological Proofs Today, Ontos Verlag. pp. 345. 2012.
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2Dualism IntactFaith and Philosophy 13 (1): 68-77. 1996.I have argued in many places that a carefully articulated version of Descartes’ argument to show that he is essentially an immaterial soul is sound. It is conceivable that I who am currently conscious continue to exist without my body, and that can only be if there is currently a non-bodily part of me which alone is essential for me. Recent counter-arguments of Alston and Smythe, Moser and van der Nat, Zimmerman, and Shoemaker are rejected.
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10Revelation: From Metaphor to AnalogyOxford University Press UK. 1991.Christianity and other religions claim that their books and creeds contain truths revealed by God. How can we know whether they do? Revelation investigates the claim of the Christian religion to have such revealed truths; and so considers which parts of the Bible are to be regarded as literal history, and which as metaphorical truth. This entirely rewritten second edition contains a long new chapter examining whether traditional Christian claims about personal morality can be regarded as reveale…Read more
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2EvidenceIn Trent Dougherty (ed.), Evidentialism and its Discontents, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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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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284Précis of Mind, Brain, and Free WillEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 6 (2): 1--3. 2014.
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257The Argument to God from Fine-TuningIn Melville Y. Stewart (ed.), Science and Religion in Dialogue, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 223--233. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: * Fine-Tuning * Notes
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31Reply to Stump and KretzmannFaith and Philosophy 13 (3): 413-414. 1996.Stump and Kretzmann object to my argument for substance dualism on the ground that its statement involves an implausibly stringent understanding of a hard fact about a time as one whose truth conditions lie solely at that time. I am however entitled to my own definitions, and there is a simple reason why the “standard examples” of hard facts which they provide do not satisfy my definition - they all concern instants and not periods of time.
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2The Construction of Reality By Michael A. Arbib and Mary B. Hesse Cambridge University Press, 1987, 286 pp., £25.00 (review)Philosophy 62 (242): 542-544. 1987.
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38Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks By Nicholas Wolterstorff Cambridge University Press, 1995, 326 pp., £37.50 hb, £12.95 pb (review)Philosophy 71 (277): 465-. 1996.
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Review of WESLEY C. SALMON: Hans Reichenbach: Logical Empiricist (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 31 (4): 401-404. 1980.
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32Could God Become Man?Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 25 53-70. 1989.The central doctrine of Christianity is that God intervened in human history in the person of Jesus Christ in a unique way; and that quickly became understood as the doctrine that in Jesus Christ God became man. In AD 451 the Council of Chalcedon formulated that doctrine in a precise way utilizing the current philosophical terminology, which provided a standard for the orthodoxy of subsequent thought on this issue. It affirmed its belief in ‘our Lord Jesus Christ, … truly God and truly man, … in…Read more
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54Richard Swinburne: Christian Philosophy in a Modern World (edited book)Ontos Verlag. 2008.Richard Swinburne is one of the most influential contemporaryproponents of the analytical philosophy of religion.
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The probability of the resurrectionIn Andrew Dole & Andrew Chignell (eds.), God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in Philosophy of Religion, Cambridge University Press. 2005.The hypothesis that Jesus rose bodily from the dead is rendered probable in so far as: (1) evidence makes it probable that there is a God, (2) God has reason to become incarnate - to provide atonement for our sins, to identify with our suffering, and to reveal teaching (and so to lead a particular kind of human life, including teaching that he was divine and making atonement, a life culminated by a super-miracle such as his resurrection from the dead), (3) there is evidence of a modest degree of…Read more
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Review of Clark N. Glymour: Theory and Evidence (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 32 (3): 314-318. 1981.
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711Bayes' TheoremRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 194 (2): 250-251. 2004.Richard Swinburne: Introduction Elliott Sober: Bayesianism - its scopes and limits Colin Howson: Bayesianism in Statistics A P Dawid: Bayes's Theorem and Weighing Evidence by Juries John Earman: Bayes, Hume, Price, and Miracles David Miller: Propensities May Satisfy Bayes's Theorem 'An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances' by Thomas Bayes, presented to the Royal Society by Richard Price. Preceded by a historical introduction by G A Barnard
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181Relations between universals,or divine laws?Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84 (2). 2006.Armstrong's theory of laws of nature as relations between universals gives an initially plausible account of why the causal powers of substances are bound together only in certain ways, so that the world is a very regular place. But its resulting theory of causation cannot account for intentional causation, since this involves an agent trying to do something, and trying is causing. This kind of causation is thus a state of an agent and does not involve the operation of a law. It is simpler to su…Read more
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101The irreducibility of causationDialectica 51 (1). 1997.Empiricists have sought to follow Hume in claiming that causality is a relation between events reducible to something more basic, e.g., regularities or counterfactuals. But all such attempts fail through their inability to distinguish cause from effect. The alternative is that causation is irreducible. Regularities are evidence of causation but do not constitute it. We understand what causation is through performing intentional actions which necessarily involve trying, which in turn just is exer…Read more