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Reduction, Time and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Natural SciencesPhilosophy 57 (221): 410-412. 1982.
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18Thesim, Atheism, and Big Bang CosmologyInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 37 (2): 123-125. 1995.Was the Big Bang with which the universe began created by God, or did it occur without cause? In this book two philosophers of opposite viewpoints debate the question.
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36Is Goodness Without God Good Enough?: A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and EthicsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2008.Is Goodness Without God Good Enough contains a lively debate between William Lane Craig and Paul Kurtz on the relationship between God and ethics, followed by seven new essays that both comment on the debate and advance the broader discussion of this important issue. Written in an accessible style by eminent scholars, this book will appeal to students and academics alike.
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Bayes, God, and the multiverseIn Jake Chandler & Victoria S. Harrison (eds.), Probability in the Philosophy of Religion, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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17The Existence of GodOxford University Press. 1979.Substantially re-written and updated, this edition of 'The Existence of God' presents arguments such as the existence of the laws of nature, 'fine-tuning' of the universe, moral awareness and evidence of miracles, to prove the case that there is a God.
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12Faith and ReasonOxford University Press. 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 re…Read more
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27Summary of Are We Bodies or Souls?Roczniki Filozoficzne 69 (1): 7-10. 2021.This book is about the nature of human beings, defending a version of substance dualism, similar to that of Descartes, that each of us living on earth consists of two distinct substances—body and soul. Bodies keep us alive and by enabling us to interact with each other and the world they make our lives greatly worth living; but our soul is the one essential part of each of us.
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32Response to Essays on Are We Bodies or Souls?Roczniki Filozoficzne 69 (1): 119-138. 2021.This paper consists of my responses to the comments by nine commentators on my book Are we Bodies or Souls? It makes twelve separate points, each one relevant to the comments of one or more of the commentators, as follows: I defend my understanding of “knowing the essence” of an object as knowing a set of logically necessary and sufficient conditions for an object to be that object; I claim that there cannot be thoughts without a thinker; I argue that my distinction of “mental” from “physical” e…Read more
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10God and MoralityJournal of Chinese Philosophy 41 (5): 553-566. 2014.I’m not going to discuss whether or not there is a God, but simply whether if there is a God, that makes any difference to morality. I shall argue first that the existence and actions of God would make no difference to the fact that there are moral truths—and on this you may already agree with me. But I shall go on to argue that the existence and actions of God would make a great difference1 to the content of morality, to the seriousness of morality, and our knowledge of morality—and on all that…Read more
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37Our soul makes us who we areThink 20 (57): 53-67. 2021.ABSTRACTA ‘complex’ theory of personal identity analyses a person P2 being the same as an earlier person P1 in terms of some particular degree of physical or mental continuity between them. All such theories are open to an objection that the postulated degree of continuity is an arbitrary one, and many of them are open to the objection that more than one subsequent person could satisfy them. Necessarily, any subsequent person is either totally the same person as P1 or not at all the same as P1. …Read more
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46How to define ‘Moral Realism’Journal of Philosophical Theological Research 22 (3): 15-33. 2020.Moral realism is the doctrine that some propositions asserting that some action is ‘morally’ good are true. This paper examines three different definitions of what it is for an action to be ‘morally’ good which would make moral realism a clear and plausible view. The first defines ‘morally good as ‘overall important to do’; and the second defines it as ‘overall important to do for universalizable reasons’. The paper argues that neither of these definitions is adequate; and it develops the view o…Read more
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35Eleonore Stump. The God of the Bible and the God of the PhilosophersJournal of Analytic Theology 6 789-792. 2018.ㅤ
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13HUMPHREYS, Willard C.-"Anomalies and Scientific Theories" (review)Philosophy 44 (n/a): 166. 1969.
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35In Search of the Soul, by John CottinghamMind 131 (521): 267-270. 2022.In Search of the Soul, by CottinghamJohn. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 174.
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56Stump On ForgivenessFaith and Philosophy 36 (4): 512-521. 2019.I claim that all the criticisms made by Eleonore Stump in her Atonement of my account of the nature and justification of human and divine forgiveness are entirely mistaken. She claims that God’s forgiveness of our sins is always immediate and unconditional. I argue that on Christ’s understanding of forgiveness as deeming the sinner not to have wronged one, God’s forgiveness of us is always conditional on our repenting and being willing to forgive others. Her account of forgiveness merely as the …Read more