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10Philosophical Explorations of New and Alternative Religious Movements (edited book)Ashgate. 2012.Philosophy of religion is focused chiefly on theism. Yet there are a growing number of new and alternative religious movements that would also benefit from philosophical scrutiny. This book is the first collection of philosophical essays, by a team of international authors, focusing on new and alternative religious movements. The book begins with an examination of the definition of new religious movements, before offering an introduction to, and an analysis of, core beliefs held by particular mo…Read more
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83Incommensurability, slight pains and GodInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 75 (2): 79-85. 2014.I will consider how the notion of incommensurability, as championed by Parfit (Reasons and persons, 1984), Griffin (Well-being: its meaning, measurement and importance, 1986), Chang (Ethics 112:659–688, 2002), and Hare (Philos Perspect 23:165–176, 2009), might affect both the argument from slight pain (which suggests God’s non-existence can be inferred from the merest stubbing of one’s toe) and Leibniz’s reply to this argument. I conclude that the notion of incommensurability may ultimately stre…Read more
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195Aquinas’s Miracles and the Luciferous Defence: The Problem of the Evil/Miracle RatioSophia 48 (2): 167-177. 2009.Miracles and the problem of evil are two prominent areas of research within philosophy of religion. On occasion these areas converge, with God’s goodness being brought into question by the claim that either there is a lack of miracles, or there are immoral miracles. In this paper I shall highlight a second manner in which miracles and the problem of evil relate. Namely, I shall give reason as to why what is considered to be miraculous may be dependent upon a particular response to the problem of…Read more
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52Robert A. Larmer, The legitimacy of miracles: Lexington Books, Lanham, ix + 207 pages, $85International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 76 (2): 235-240. 2014.This is a good book. It is good because: (a) it outlines well the central arguments of the debate (that is, the arguments relating to what a miracle is, whether they are possible, whether we can have evidence of their occurrence, and what would follow from such evidence were we to have it); (b) it furthers the debate; and (c) it is a clearly written. If you are a philosopher religion whose research area is miracles, the book is a must-read. If you are philosopher of religion whose research area …Read more
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36Defining Miracles: Direct vs. Indirect CausationPhilosophy Compass 11 (5): 267-276. 2016.In this paper, a candidate necessary condition of a miracle is introduced: the direct restriction. The direct restriction holds that all miraculous effects have direct non-natural causes.
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