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Hugh Chandler

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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    Does God Necessarly Exist?
    If God necessarily exists this has some interesting consequences. In this little note I mention some of these.
    Philosophy of Religion, Misc
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    Divine Intervention and the Origin of Life
    Faith and Philosophy 10 (2): 170-180. 1993.
    Philosophy of Religion
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    Some Remarks on Hills's The Beloved Self
    Here are a few remarks in regard to the first section of Alison Hills’s The Beloved Self. The topic is various forms of ‘Egoism.’ These are taken to be theories of practical reason – alternative answers to the question ‘what have I reason to do?’
    Moral Reasoning and Motivation, MiscMoral RationalityMoral Reasons
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    Augustine's Argument for the Existence of God
    Roughly speaking, Augustine claims that ‘Immutable Truth’ is superior to the human mind and, consequently a legitimate candidate for the role of God. Clearly there is such a thing as Immutable Truth. So either that is God, or there is something superior to Immutable Truth, and that superior thing is God. I spell out this argument, and offer some objections to it.
    Ontological Arguments for Theism, MiscAugustineArguments for Theism, Misc
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    The Problem of Good
    Very few (if any) people believe that the world was created, and is maintained, by a thoroughly contemptible and malicious being. Do we have good reason for our disbelief? In the first part of this paper I offer an argument for the non-existence of such a being. According to this argument there is just too much good - too may good things - in the world for the ‘malicious being’ theory to be plausible. In the second part of the paper I briefly consider the applicability of similar arguments to …Read more
    Value Theory, Miscellaneous