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6The Soul in Continental ThoughtIn Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Brief History of the Soul, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Descartes Malebranche and Leibniz.
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3The Soul in Medieval Christian ThoughtIn Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Brief History of the Soul, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Augustine Aquinas.
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2IndexIn Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Brief History of the Soul, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Plato Aristotle.
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34Substance Dualism: A DefenseIn Jonathan J. Loose, Angus John Louis Menuge & J. P. Moreland (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism, Wiley-blackwell. 2018.This chapter aims to separate the caricatures of dualism from a serious philosophical and theological view of human, and nonhuman animal nature. It addresses one of the key sources for discontent with substance dualism: the assumption that people have a clear, problem‐free understanding of what it is to be physical. The chapter discusses author's argument for why people should believe that human persons are not numerically identical with their bodies. It also offers reasons why materialism is un…Read more
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8“Like my Father before Me”: Loss and Redemption of Fatherhood in Star WarsIn Jason T. Eberl & Kevin S. Decker (eds.), The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy, Wiley. 2015-09-18.Fatherly love should be evident in caring for the health and good of one's children, seeking to safeguard them from harm and to encourage their integrity. However, in Star Wars, Darth Vader promises his son's survival only on the condition that Luke Skywalker will serve his own monstrous, tyrannical master. Utilizing a philosophy of love and goodness to show how the parent–child relationship may be lost or regained, this chapter examines the transition in Anakin's life from a natural love of oth…Read more
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45The 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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48Hume’s Racism and His Case against the MiraculousPhilosophia Christi 4 (2). 2002.Hume’s case against the reliability of reports of intelligent Blacks is analogous to his case against the reliability of reports of miracles
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44A Companion to Philosophy of Religion (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1997.In 85 new and updated essays, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative guide to the philosophy of religion. Includes contributions from established philosophers and rising stars 22 new entries have now been added, and all material from the previous edition has been updated and reorganized Broad coverage spans the areas of world religions, theism, atheism,, the problem of evil, science and religion, and ethics
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25Taking Common Sense Seriously: The Philosophy of Roderick ChisholmInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 41 (3): 361-369. 1998.This Article does not have an abstract
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65On dedicationsAnalysis 71 (4): 620-627. 2011.What is it to dedicate a thing or event to some person or thing? In the spirit of—and using the same techniques as—J.L. Austin, we advance an analysis of the practice of dedications. We propose that dedicating is an intentional activity involving reverence and honour. We identify the different ways a dedication can go awry and highlight the values that explain why dedications have merit (e.g. they can involve an honorable, evident self-subordination of the donator to the recipient and also bring…Read more
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50The Cambridge companion to Christian philosophical theology (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.The sixteen chapters, commissioned specially for this volume, are written by an internationally recognized team of scholars and examine topics such as the Trinity, God's necessary existence, simplicity, omnipotence, omniscience, ...
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3The Naturalness of Belief: New Essays on Theism's Reasonability (edited book)Lexington Books. 2019.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...
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10How Sinful Is Sin? How Vicious Is Vice?TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 7 (2). 2022.We defend the guise of the good thesis in a tradition going back to Socrates and Plato, according to which persons act on the basis of what appears to them as good or the least bad or evil act available to them. This seems contrary to moral experience, but we defend the thesis against plausible counter-examples in life as well as fiction. We contend that the thesis makes wrong-doing and vice intelligible, but still wrong, dysfunctional and horrific.
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1Like my father before me : loss and redemption of fatherhood in Star WarsIn Jason T. Eberl & Kevin S. Decker (eds.), The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy: You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned, Wiley-blackwell. 2015.
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Taking the mind of God seriously : why and how to become a theistic idealistIn Andrei A. Buckareff & Yujin Nagasawa (eds.), Alternative Concepts of God: Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine, Oxford University Press. 2016.
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3What is philosophy of religion?Polity Press. 2018.In this beginner's guide, Charles Taliaferro addresses the important questions involved in philosophy of religion, covering all the major contemporary topics. What is Philosophy of Religion? takes a practical, question-based approach to the subject, inviting the reader to engage with this exciting topic in a down-to-earth way.
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8The history of evil (edited book)Routledge, Taylor & Francis GroupVolume I. The history of evil in antiquity : 2000 BCD-450 CE -- volume II. The history of evil in the medieval age : 450-1450 -- volume III. The history of evil in the early modern age : 1450-1700 -- volume IV. The history of evil in the 18th and 19th centuries : 1700-1900 -- volume V. The history of evil in the early twentieth century : 1900-1950 -- volume VI. The history of evil from the mid-twentieth century to today : 1950-2018.
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7Cascade companion to evilCascade Books. 2020.A guide to evil from a Christian point of view. In this wide-ranging and concise study, philosopher Charles Taliaferro explores: •the idea that evil is the destruction or privation of what is good •sin •divine commands •redemption from evil •hell and heaven •the problem of evil •and the multiple ways Christians seek to overcome evil with good.
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Value, dualism and materialismIn Alexander J. B. Hampton & John Peter Kenney (eds.), Christian Platonism: A History, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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IntroductionIn Mark A. Lamport (ed.), The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Philosophy and Religion, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2022.
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23The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, 4 Volume Set (edited book)Wiley. 2021.An unprecedented multi-volume reference work on philosophy of religion, providing authoritative coverage of all significant concepts, figures, and movements Unmatched in scope and depth, The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion provides readers with a well-balanced understanding of philosophical thought about the nature of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other religious traditions around the globe. Spanning across four comprehensive volumes, this groundbreaking resource c…Read more
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30Meaning, metaphysics, and mystics: Thaddeus Metz’s God, Soul and the Meaning of LifeInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 82 (4-5): 361-365. 2021.ABSTRACT Thaddeus Metz is probably the leading expert on the meaning of life. His latest book admirably displays his intellectual agility and fairness: arguments, counter-arguments, examples and counter-examples come in wave after wave that may compel most of us to slow down the pace of reading. If you have ever had the delight of interacting with Professor Metz at a conference, you know his irrepressible energy and love for debate. In this brief essay, I challenge some of Metz’s terminology, ra…Read more
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11The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, 4 Volume Set (edited book)Wiley. 2021.An unprecedented multi-volume reference work on philosophy of religion, providing authoritative coverage of all significant concepts, figures, and movements Unmatched in scope and depth, The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion provides readers with a well-balanced understanding of philosophical thought about the nature of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other religious traditions around the globe. Spanning across four comprehensive volumes, this groundbreaking resource c…Read more
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15The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, 4 Volume Set (edited book)Wiley. 2021.An unprecedented multi-volume reference work on philosophy of religion, providing authoritative coverage of all significant concepts, figures, and movements Unmatched in scope and depth, the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion provides readers with a well-balanced understanding of philosophical thought about the nature of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other religious traditions around the globe. Spanning across four comprehensive volumes, this groundbre…Read more
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13IntroductionIn Charles Taliaferro Victoria Harrison & Stewart Goetz (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Theism, . pp. 1-7. 2013.
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24Are We Embodied Souls?Roczniki Filozoficzne 69 (1): 83-87. 2021.It is argued that Swinburne should stress the functional unity of soul and body under most healthy conditions. Too often, critics of substance dualism charge dualists with promoting a problematic bifurcation between soul and body. Swinburne’s work is defended against objections from Thomas Nagel. It is argued that Swinburne’s appeal to the first-person point of view is sound.
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1Brown, Montague. Freedom, Philosophy and Faith: The Transformational Role of Freedom in the Thought of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas (review)Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 25 (1-2): 183-184. 2013.
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