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1We argue that glory, while seductive, should not be sought for its own sake. We employ some Greek ethics, personalism, and the superhero figures "The Fantastic Four"
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Beyond Finitude: God’s Transcendence and the Meaning of Life, by Arjan Markus (review)Ars Disputandi 5. 2005.
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Divine incorporealityIn Paul K. Moser & Paul Copan (eds.), The Rationality of Theism, Routledge. pp. 240. 2003.
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Soul, Body, and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human PersonsCornell University Press. 2001.
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23Peter Van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman (eds) persons: Human and divine (oxford: Clarendon press, 2007). Pp.IX+380. £60.00 (hbk). ISBN 9780199277516 (review)Religious Studies 44 (4): 499-504. 2008.
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5Dialogues About GodRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2008.Charles Taliaferro, a leading philosopher of religion, presents several fictional dialogues among characters with contrasting views on the existence of God, including theism, atheism, skepticism, and other nuanced arguments about the nature of God. In a series of five inspired, original debates, Taliaferro taps into several famous exchanges, including those among Antony Flew, Basil Mitchell and R. M. Hare; between Frederick Copleston and Bertrand Russell; and between Copleston and A. J. Ayer
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The soul of the runnerIn Michael W. Austin (ed.), Running and Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind, Blackwell. 2007.
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23Consciousness and the Mind of GodPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (1): 241-243. 1997.
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39The Ideal Observer’s Philosophy of ReligionThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 4 51-58. 1999.Philosophical assessments of different religious traditions face two substantial objections, among others. According to one, the very nature of religious traditions as embedded forms of life prevents this philosophical undertaking. According to the other, a philosophical inventory is possible but under its guise no religious tradition will be left standing. I reply to both and then comment on whether there is (or can be) an ideal observation post from which to philosophically elucidate and compa…Read more
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28Explaining religious experienceIn Jeffrey Schloss & Michael J. Murray (eds.), The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion, Oxford University Press. pp. 200. 2009.Accession Number: ATLA0001788492; Hosting Book Page Citation: p 200-214.; Language(s): English; Issued by ATLA: 20130825; Publication Type: Essay; Related Books/Electronic Resources: 9780713997897; 067003472X; 9780670034727; By: Dennett, Daniel C Breaking the spell 464 p. Publisher: New York : Viking ; London : Allen Lane (Penguin Books), 2006. ATLA0001508292
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35The Divine Attributes (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (3): 742-745. 2005.This book is a first-rate contribution to analytic philosophy of religion. The divine attributes that are the focus of this analytic enterprise are constitutive of theism. They include substantiality, incorporeality, necessary existence, eternality, omniscience, perfect virtue, moral admirability, and omnipotence. Hoffman and Rosenkrantz limit themselves to a conceptual goal; they argue for the coherence of theism not its truth. The book contains a useful glossary and terms are introduced with c…Read more
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24A dictionary of philosophy of religion (edited book)Continuum. 2010.An indispensable and comprehensive resource for students and scholars of philosophy of religion.
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46Dualism and the Problem of IndividuationReligious Studies 22 (2). 1986.H. D. Lewis once remarked he did not think ‘any case for immortality can get off the ground if we fail to make a case for dualism’. Lewis vigorously defended both mind body dualism, the theory that minds are nonphysical, spatially unextended things in causal interaction with physical, spatially extended things, as well as the conceivability of an after life. Lewis defended the intelligibility of supposing distinct, individual persons continue existing after bodily death, possibly even after all …Read more
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16Review of John Clayton, Religions, Reasons and Gods: Essays in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (7). 2007.
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10NaturalismEerdmans. 2008.Argues against naturalism, or the idea that natural physical processes explain everything, the mind and soul do not exist, and consciousness and causality may have no basis, and suggests that it does not account for human--or any--action.
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38Philosophical critique of natural theologyIn J. H. Brooke, F. Watts & R. R. Manning (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology, Oxford Up. pp. 385. 2013.This chapter discusses the two kinds of philosophical critiques of natural theology: external and internal critiques. External critiques take aim at the whole project, objecting to the metaphysics, epistemology, or theory of values that make natural theology possible at all. Internal critiques allow that natural theology can succeed but none of its arguments are cogent or meet high philosophical standards. Among external critiques, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason seeks to undermine all metaphysic…Read more
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Going beyond property dualismIn Kevin Corcoran (ed.), Soul, body, and survival: essays on the metaphysics of human persons, Cornell University Press. 2001.
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34The give and take of biological naturalism: John Searle and the case for dualismPhilosophia Christi 7 (2): 447-462. 2005.
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29Emergentism and consciousness: Going beyond property dualismIn Kevin J. Corcoran (ed.), Soul, Body, and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons, Cornell University Press. 2001.
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34Saving our souls: Hacking's archaeology and Churchland's neurologyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 40 (1). 1997.
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