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6Is God Invisible?: An Essay on Religion and AestheticsCambridge University Press. 2021.In this volume, Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans promote aesthetic personalism by examining three domains of aesthetics - the philosophy of beauty, aesthetic experience, and philosophy of art - through the lens of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, theistic Hinduism, and the all-seeing Compassionate Buddha. These religious traditions assume an inclusive, overarching God's eye, or ideal point of view, that can create an emancipatory appreciation of beauty and goodness. This appreciation also recognize…Read more
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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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6Cascade 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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5The 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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5IncorporealityIn Charles Taliaferro, Paul Draper & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Arguments for Divine Incorporeality Arguments Against Divine Incorporeality The Immanence of God Works cited.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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435 God and MindIn Mirosław Szatkowski (ed.), Ontology of Divinity, De Gruyter. pp. 781-792. 2024.
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4Philosophy of ReligionIn Nicholas Bunnin & E. P. Tsui‐James (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.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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4Masked 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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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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4The 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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4Is Strategic Thinking Desirable in Philosophical Reflection?Philosophia Christi 17 (1): 213-221. 2015.We argue that, ideally, philosophy—as the love of wisdom—should not be practiced strategically. Among genuine lovers of wisdom, there should be no need for strategic skills; by “strategic” we refer to those skill used in the military and, by extension, in business and sports that involves deception, misrepresentation, the use of surprise to disorient opponents, and so on. We give regrettable examples of non-Christian and Christian philosophers using strategic skills. This paper is dedicated to t…Read more
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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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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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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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3Cartesian DualismDissertation, Brown University. 1984."Cartesian Dualism" is a systematic examination of a version of mind-body dualism in light of recent work in the philosophy of mind and the theory of reference. I analyze Descartes' modal argument for dualism and argue that some of the principal objections against dualism are not decisive. The thesis is divided into five sections. ;The first section sets forth the main features of Descartes' ontology and his theory of mind. I defend Descartes' theory of individuation and discuss recent conceptio…Read more
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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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