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O artigo sustenta que, a fim de dar uma descrição completa do mundo, precisamos listar não apenas os eventos cerebrais que ocorrem, mas também os eventos mentais e analisálos como estados de uma substância imaterial, a alma. Com base nesse dualismo de substância, defende-se que a ciência física não tem como explicar a existência de vida consciente. O artigo conclui que, levando-se em conta a estrutura de argumentação formalizada no Teorema de Bayes, podemos dizer que o fenômeno da vida conscient…Read more
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Revelation: From Metaphor to AnalogyInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 34 (3): 189-191. 1993.
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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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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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Christian orthodoxy has maintained that in Jesus Christ God became man, i.e., acquired a human nature, while remaining God. Given two not unreasonable restrictions on the understanding of "man", that claim is perfectly coherent. But if the New Testament is correct in claiming that in some sense Christ was ignorant, weak, and temptable, we have to suppose that Christ has a divided mind; or, in traditional terminology, that the two natures did not totally interpenetrate.
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Book notices-the evolution of the soulHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 20 (1): 127. 1998.
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"Alvin Plantinga," edited by James E. Tomberlin and Peter van Inwagen (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (3): 511. 1987.
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The soulIn Timothy O'Connor & David Robb (eds.), Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings, Routledge. 2003.
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"Science, Belief and Behaviour: Essays in honour of R. B. Braithwaite". Edited by D. H. Mellor (review)Mind 90 (n/a): 468. 1981.
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If there is a God who wants us to become saints worthy of the beatific vision, he will provide us with information how to do so -- that is, with a propositional revelation. The revelation will not be too evident -- in order that we may choose whether or not to search it out and tell others about it -- and its interpretation for new centuries and cultures will require a church. The tests of a genuine revelation are its consonance with our knowledge of God obtained by other routes, and some sort o…Read more
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Miracles and Laws of NatureIn Brian Davies (ed.), Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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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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Review of Clark N. Glymour: Theory and Evidence (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 32 (3): 314-318. 1981.