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14Sheila Greeve Davaney, Pragmatic Historicism: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century. Albany: State University Press of New York, 2000. Pp. xv + 223. ISBN 0-7914-4693-X (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 1 (1): 174-178. 2004.
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10Pragmatists, predatory males, and tough broadsAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 24 (1). 2003.
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1Language, Truth, and Religious Belief: Studies in Twentieth-Century Theory and Method in ReligionAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 20 (3): 281-285. 1999.
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Weakening religious belief : Vattimo, Rorty, and the holism of the mentalIn Santiago Zabala (ed.), Weakening philosophy: essays in honour of Gianni Vattimo, Mcgill-queen's University Press. 2007.
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10Inquiry and the language of the divine: A reply to ProudfootAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 14 (3). 1993.
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117The argument of this article is that, philosophically, there are but three broad conceptual models that Western thought employs in thinking about the meaning of God. At the level of greatest generality, these are the models known as classical theism, pantheism, and panentheism. The essay surveys and updates these three conceptual models in light of recent writings, finds more flaws in classical theism and panentheism than in pantheism, and suggests a feminist response to each.
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33Some Problems in Process TheodicyReligious Studies 17 (2). 1981.What good is divinity if it can come only in dreams and shadows…? It is a well-known and rarely challenged assumption that one of the chief merits of Whitehead's cosmology is that it enables religious thinkers to come at the problem of God in relation to the presence of evil in an entirely new way. Among the virtues most commonly appealed to in praise of the Whiteheadian theodicy are its emphasis on God's persuasive, rather than controlling power; its defence of the moral goodness of the God who…Read more
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8Rarely in modern times has religion been associated with empiricism except to its own peril. This book represents a comprehensive and systematic effort to retrieve and develop the tradition of American religious empiricism for religious inquiry. Religion and Radical Empiricism offers a challenging account of how and why reflection on religious truth-claims must seek justification of those claims finally in terms of empirical criteria. Ranging through many of the major questions in philosophy of …Read more
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8Meland's empirical realism and the appeal to lived experienceAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 5 (2/3). 1984.
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21On Empty Compliments and Deceptive Detours: A Neopragmatist Response to Theodore W. NunezJournal of Religious Ethics 27 (1). 1999.The philosophical question Nunez raises is whether we can have, as he thinks we need, a theoretical grounding for appeal to the intrinsic value of nature. This article examines the neopragmatist reasons for repudiating metaphysical realism's notions of intrinsicality and subject-independent reality. Following the holism of Donald Davidson and Richard Rorty rather than the epistemological premises of Holmes Rolston and Bernard Lonergan, the author concludes that coping with the ecological crisis …Read more
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66Functionalism, fallibilism, and anti-foundationalism in Wieman's empirical theismZygon 22 (1): 37-47. 1987.Empirical philosophy of religion is usually appraised in light of its theological uses, rather than in terms of its relation to philosophical forms of empiricism. The present paper examines the empirical theism of Henry Nelson Wieman by relating it to Carl Hempel's critique of functionalism, Karl Popper's use of falsifiability, and the growth of post–empiricist anti–foundationalism in epis–temology. It is concluded that Wieman's argument commits the fallacy of affirming the consequent; that his …Read more
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11The Logic of Whitehead's Intuition of EverlastingnessSouthern Journal of Philosophy 21 (1): 31-46. 1983.
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7Interpreting Neville (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1999._Distinguished scholars provide the first book-length consideration of the work of philosopher and theologian Robert Cummings Neville, including a response from Neville himself._
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Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Religion |
20th Century Philosophy |