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23To Heidegger Blackwell Companions to PhilosophyPhilosophy 29. 2005.Blackwell Companions to Philosophy This outstanding student reference series offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of philosophy as a whole. Written by todays leading philosophers, each volume provides lucid and
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735 God and MindIn Mirosław Szatkowski (ed.), Ontology of Divinity, De Gruyter. pp. 781-792. 2024.
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6The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2021.Why an encyclopedia of the philosophy of religion? Because human beings have been and continue to be religious. Indeed, if one thinks in terms of what it is to be human, what is the essence of a human being, one can reasonably hold that it includes the property of trying to make sense of things and events, and religion, in terms of both belief and practice, is a way of doing this. A religious response to this attempt at sense-making in no way implies that those who are not religious are not tryi…Read more
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19Constructive Comparative Philosophy of Religion: Translations of Christianity and Islam and a Case Study of Ibn Tufayl and Ralph CudworthJournal of Philosophical Theological Research 25 (3): 27-36. 2023.We point out how some Christian-Muslim comparative philosophies of religion may be enhanced with certain translations or interpretations of Christianity: a modalist view of the trinity and a high Christology. While perhaps of only limited significance, we argue in more detail that a comparison of two leading philosophers, one Islamic, the other Christian, can bring to light a shared philosophy of innate ideas or nativism, grounding moral and theological views of goodness and the divine.
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9The Naturalness of Belief: New Essays on Theism’s Rationality (edited book)Lexington Books. 2018.This volume exposes naturalism’s unnaturalness and defends theism’s naturalness and greater explanatory power to account for wide-ranging phenomena in the world and human experience. A broadening of naturalism to accommodate these features means borrowing heavily from—and thus more closely resembling—a theistic worldview.
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8Contemporary Philosophical TheologyRoutledge. 2015.In _Contemporary Philosophical Theology_, Charles Taliaferro and Chad Meister focus on key topics in contemporary philosophical theology within Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, as well as Hinduism and Buddhism. The volume begins with a discussion of key methodological tools available to the philosophical theologian, such as faith and reason, science and religion, revelation and sacred scripture, and authority and tradition. The authors use these tools to explore subjects including language, ine…Read more
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35The Routledge Companion to Theism (edited book)Routledge. 2012.There are deep and pervasive disagreements today in universities and colleges, and popular culture in general, over the credibility and value of belief in God. This has given rise to an urgent need for a balanced, comprehensive, accessible resource book that can inform the public and scholarly debate over theism. While scholars with as diverse interests as Daniel Dennett, Terry Eagleton, Richard Dawkins, Jürgen Habermas, and Rowan Williams have recently contributed books to this debate, "theism"…Read more
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5The History of Evil in the Early Modern Age 1450-1700CE (edited book)Routledge. 2018.The third volume of The History of Evil encompasses the early modern era from 1450–1700. This revolutionary period exhibited immense change in both secular knowledge and sacred understanding. It saw the fall of Constantinople and the rise of religious violence, the burning of witches and the drowning of Anabaptists, the ill treatment of indigenous peoples from Africa to the Americas, the reframing of formal authorities in religion, philosophy, and science, and it produced profound reflection on …Read more
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A Brief History of Western Philosophy (review)Review of Metaphysics 53 (3): 712-713. 2000.A Brief History of Western Philosophy is a stimulating, impressive work by one of Britain’s leading philosophers. It is valuable both as an introduction to the history of ideas as well as a record of a distinguished philosopher’s mature reflections. In the Preface, Anthony Kenny aligns his book with Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy for, like Russell, he seeks to reach “the general educated reader, who has no special training, and who wishes to learn the contribution that philos…Read more
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4Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion: Aids to Reflection and the Mirror of the Spirit (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 41 (2): 251-252. 2001.
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5The Environmental Ethics of the Ideal ObserverEnvironmental Ethics 10 (3): 233-250. 1988.The ideal observer theory provides a fruitful framework for doing environmental ethics. It is not homocentric, it can illuminate the relationship between religious and nonreligious ethics, and it has implications for normative environmental issues. I defend it against eritieism raised by Thomas Carson and Jonathan Harrison.
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15Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1964.This substantial anthology is a comprehensive, authoritative collection of the classical and contemporary readings in the philosophy of religion, providing a survey and analysis of the key issues, figures and concepts. Comprises the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of the classical and contemporary readings in the philosophy of religion. Provides a survey and analysis of the key issues, figures and concepts. Examines religious identity, theism and divine attributes, explanations o…Read more
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43A Middle Way to God (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (1): 242-244. 2003.Garth Hallett’s way to the God of theism is charted in between the approaches commended by Richard Swinburne and Alvin Plantinga. Swinburne treats theism as a hypothesis which may be tested using confirmation theory. Swinburne stands in the tradition of natural theology which includes Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, and Butler who believe that unfettered and not already pre-disposed-totheism reason will show theism to be more reasonable than atheism or agnosticism. Plantinga has gone toe-to-toe with …Read more
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The History of Evil from the Mid-Twentieth Century to Today - 1950 to 2018 CE (edited book)Routledge Press. 2018.
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4It Is a Q of Life: Q as a Nietzschean FigureIn Kevin S. Decker & Jason T. Eberl (eds.), The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy, Wiley. 2016-03-14.The self‐proclaimed omnipotent rapscallion Q embodies some of the values celebrated by the great German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Nietzsche is sometimes interpreted as someone who rejects all morals and values, a mistaken impression amplified by the title of one of his more famous books, Beyond Good and Evil. Nietzsche teaches that we must accept the past suffering that's gone into making us who we are. Q shares some of Nietzsche's outlook insofar as he, too, looks beyond social p…Read more
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5Tattoos and the Tattooing Arts in PerspectiveIn Fritz Allhoff & Robert Arp (eds.), Tattoos – Philosophy for Everyone, Wiley‐blackwell. 2012-04-06.This chapter contains sections titled: Punctured History Cultural Meaning Individual Meaning Self‐Expression and Double Skin Inescapable Seriousness.
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4Philosophy of ReligionIn Nicholas Bunnin & Eric Tsui-James (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 1996.This chapter contains sections titled: Overview of the Current State of the Field Religious Beliefs and Religious Forms of Life Divine Attributes Evidence, Religious Experience and Secular Explanations Four Arguments about the Existence of God New Directions in the Field.
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5IncorporealityIn Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Wiley-blackwell. 1997.This chapter contains sections titled: Arguments for Divine Incorporeality Arguments Against Divine Incorporeality The Immanence of God Works cited.
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9Mind ProjectionIn Robert Arp, Steven Barbone & Michael Bruce (eds.), Bad Arguments, Wiley. 2018-05-09.This chapter focuses on one of the common fallacies in Western philosophy, 'mind projection'. This fallacy occurs when we reason that the world has features that we (wrongly) project on to it or, using Gertrude Stein's whimsical language, when we do not carefully and humbly observe the world around us. Physicist E.T. Jaynes claimed to identify this fallacy as part of his critique of quantum theory of probability in his work “Clearing up Mysteries – The Original Goal”. He claimed that probability…Read more
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5Masked ManIn Robert Arp, Steven Barbone & Michael Bruce (eds.), Bad Arguments, Wiley. 2018-05-09.This chapter focuses on one of the common fallacies in Western philosophy, 'masked man'. MM occurs due to our finite, limited knowledge of reality. It involves drawing unjustified conclusions about what is true based on intentional attitudes. MM is based on a failure to apply fully the principle of the indiscernibility of identicals. While the case of the masked man seems to be a clear fallacy, the case can be redescribed to offer a non‐fallacious inference. MM may be avoided to the extent that …Read more
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5The Great EscapeIn Fritz Allhoff & Dale Jacquette (eds.), Cannabis Philosophy for Everyone, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010-09-24.This chapter contains sections titled: Philosophical Prohibitions Religious Arguments A Defense of Altered States Cannabis in Particular.
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9To My Other SelfIn William Irwin & Christopher Robichaud (eds.), Dungeons & Dragons and Philosophy, Wiley. 2014-09-19.This chapter talks about to my other self reflection and existentialism in dungeons dragons. The 3.5 Dungeon Master's Guide II sourcebook discusses player motivations such as these, recognizing that, for many, they are one of the main reasons to play DD. The actor plays a character that someone else has envisioned and written: a figment of someone else's imagination. The author's task looks at the other side of this coin: an author conceives of a world and characters, and then sees how those cha…Read more
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2The Project of Natural TheologyIn William Lane Craig & J. P. Moreland (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Does Theistic Natural Theology Rest upon a Mistake? A Foundation for Natural Theology Nontheistic Natural Theology Virtues and Vices of Inquiry References.
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2IntroductionIn Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Brief History of the Soul, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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7Thoughts on the Future of the SoulIn Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Brief History of the Soul, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Naturalism versus Theism The Physical World Cross‐Cultured Inquiry Value Inquiry.
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13The Problem of Soul–Body Causal InteractionIn Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Brief History of the Soul, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Causation and Dualism Why Not Locate Souls in Space? Property/Event Dualism or Dual Aspect Theory.
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4The Soul and Contemporary ScienceIn Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Brief History of the Soul, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: The Soul and the Brain The Soul and Scientific Methodology Soul‐Body Causal Interaction and the Conservation of Energy.
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6Contemporary Challenges to the SoulIn Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Brief History of the Soul, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: The Ghost in the Machine Objection The Private Language Argument Ockham's Razor and Identity Argument from Neural Dependence Arguments from Personal Identity Argument from Evolution.
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14The Soul in Locke, Butler, Reid, Hume, and KantIn Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Brief History of the Soul, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Locke Butler Reid Hume Kant.
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