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23Reason and Religion: Evaluating and Explaining Belief in GodsCambridge University Press. 2022.Religion is relevant to all of us, whether we are believers or not. This book concerns two interrelated topics. First, how probable is God's existence? Should we not conclude that all divinities are human inventions? Second, what are the mental and social functions of endorsing religious beliefs? The answers to these questions are interdependent. If a religious belief were true, the fact that humans hold it might be explained by describing how its truth was discovered. If all religious beliefs a…Read more
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22The Irrationality of Religion. A Plea for Atheism (Invited Lecture)In Berit Brogaard & Barry Smith (eds.), Rationality and Irrationality: Proceeedings of the 23rd International Wittgenstein Symposium, 13-19 August 2000, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. pp. 267--272. 2001.
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18Précis of The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the SoulPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (4): 859-863. 1998.
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18Leidt consequentie altijd naar de duivel? Een analyse van de argumentatie voor Berkeleys immaterialismeWijsgerig Perspectief 26 45-57. 1985.
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15Should we be Kantians? A Defence of EmpricismRatio 14 (1): 33-55. 2001.In his book Mind and World (1994), John McDowell defends the Kantian position that the content of experience is conceptual. Without this Kantian assumption, he argues, it would be impossible to understand how experience may rationally constrain thought. But McDowell's Kantianism is either false or empty, and his view of the relation between mind and world cannot be stated without transcending the bounds of sense. McDowell's arguments supporting the Kantian thesis, which are very different from K…Read more
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14Do Not Doubt, God Exists!In H. A. Krop, Arie L. Molendijk, Hent de Vries & H. J. Adriaanse (eds.), Post-Theism: Reframing the Judeo-Christian Tradition, Peeters. pp. 301--318. 2000.
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14How Are We to Interpret Heidegger's Oeuvre? A Methodological ManifestoPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (3): 573-586. 2001.One may have different objectives in interpreting texts. If a judge interprets a statute in order to obtain a satisfactory solution to a case, his aim may be called “applicative”. But if a historian of science wants to reconstruct the meaning of obscure passages of Ptolemy's “Hypotheses planetarum”, his objectives are purely historical and theoretical.The paper argues that these different aims, applicative and historical ones, require different methodologies of interpretation, and imply differen…Read more
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13Heidegger's Question of Being and the Augustinian Picture' of LanguagePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (2): 251-287. 1992.
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11God in the Age of Science? A Critique of Religious ReasonOxford University Press UK. 2012.God in the Age of Science? is a critical examination of strategies for the philosophical defence of religious belief. Herman Philipse argues that the most promising for believers who want to be justified in accepting their creed in our scientific age is the Bayesian cumulative case strategy developed by Richard Swinburne, and goes on to present an in-depth analysis of this case for theism. Using a 'strategy of subsidiary arguments', Philipse concludes that theism cannot be stated meaningfully; t…Read more
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11Husserls houding ten opzichte van de exacte natuurwetenschapAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 71 45-51. 1979.
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10Churchland, Heidegger, en de kennistheoretische traditieAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 86 1-38. 1994.
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8The Phenomenological MovementIn Thomas Baldwin (ed.), The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1870-1945, Cambridge University Press. pp. 477--496. 2003.
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8Evidential Objections to TheismIn Graham Oppy (ed.), A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy, Wiley. 2019.This chapter starts with a definition of theism, and distinguishes two ways in which empirical evidence might be relevant to its truth. Seven evidential objections to theism are spelled out. They rely on many different empirical facts, such as so‐called divine hiddenness, features of our universe, biological evolution, the occurrence of gratuitous natural evil, and the elimination of religious explanations during scientific progress. Finally, it is argued that a purely secular explanation of all…Read more
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7Heideggers' zijnsvraag': enkele opmerkingen over de interpretatie van wijsgerige tekstenAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 94 168-172. 2002.
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6Praesidium libertatis: lezingen gehouden op de Filosofiedag 1985 te Leiden (edited book)Eburon. 1985.
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5De ik-lieg-theologie van DerdevriesridaKrisis. Tijdschrift Voor Empirische Filosofie 1 (4): 25-34. 2000.
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4Hoe moeten we ons tot Heidegger verhouden?Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 90 (4): 283-300. 1998.
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3Heidegger's 'Scandal of Philosophy': The Problem of the 'Ding an Sich'in 'Being and Time'In Steven Galt Crowell & Jeff Malpas (eds.), Transcendental Heidegger, Stanford University Press. pp. 168--198. 2007.
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3Heidegger's Philosophy of Being: A Critical InterpretationPrinceton University Press. 1998.This scrupulously researched and rigorously argued book is the first to interpret and evaluate the central topic of Martin Heidegger's philosophy--his celebrated "Question of Being"--in the context of the full range of Heidegger's thought. With this comprehensive approach, Herman Philipse distinguishes in unprecedented ways the center from the periphery, the essential from the incidental in Heidegger's philosophy. Among other achievements, this allows him to shed new light on the controversial r…Read more
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2Overcoming epistemologyIn Brian Leiter & Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of continental philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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Overcoming epistemologyIn Brian Leiter & Michael Rosen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of continental philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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Godsdienstfilosofie. Een hoorcollege over religie tussen wonder en wetenschapTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (2): 378-379. 2007.
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Heidegger's Philosophy of Being: A Critical InterpretationPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2): 478-481. 2002.