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59The Reformed Objection to Natural TheologyProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 54 (n/a): 49. 1980.
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65. Gewährleistung – die Einwände von Freud und MarxIn Gewährleisteter Christlicher Glaube, De Gruyter. pp. 158-190. 2015.
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65The Foundations of Theism: A ReplyFaith and Philosophy 3 (3): 313-396. 1986.Philip Quinn’s “On Finding the Foundations of Theism” is both challenging and important. Quinn proposes at least the following four theses: (a) my argument against the criteria of proper basicality proposed by classical foundationalism is unsuccessful, (b) the quasi-inductive method I suggest for arriving at criteria of proper basicality is defective, (c) even if belief in God is properly basic, it could without loss of justification be accepted on the basis of other propositions, and (d) belief…Read more
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Methodological NaturalismIn Jitse M. van der Meer (ed.), Facets of Faith and Science, Volume I: Historiography and Modes of Interaction, . 1996.
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3Rationality and religious beliefIn Steven M. Cahn & David Shatz (eds.), Contemporary philosophy of religion, Oxford University Press. pp. 255--377. 1982.
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265Two concepts of modality: Modal realism and modal reductionismPhilosophical Perspectives 1 189-231. 1987.
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7The Ontological Argument for the existence of God has and puzzled philosophers ever since it was first formulated by St. Anselm. I suppose most philosophers have been inclined to reject the argument, although it has an illustrious line of defenders extending to the present and presently terminating in Professors Malcolm and Hartshorne. Many philosophers have tried to give general refutations of the argument-refutations de- signed to show that no version of it can possibly succeed-of which the mo…Read more
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513. Postmoderne und PluralismusIn Gewährleisteter Christlicher Glaube, De Gruyter. pp. 500-543. 2015.
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21Religious experience and religious belief: essays in the epistemology of religion (edited book)University Press of America. 1986.To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
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115Probability and defeatersPacific Philosophical Quarterly 84 (3). 2003.Branden Fitelson and Elliott Sober raise several objections to my evolutionary argument against naturalism; I reply to four of them.
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12Reply to Tooley's opening statementIn Alvin Plantinga & Michael Tooley (eds.), Knowledge of God, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Justification Tooley's Arguments The Justification of Theistic Belief Is Evil a Defeater for Belief in God?
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40Warranted Christian Belief: The Aquinas/Calvin ModelIn Godehard Brüntrup & Ronald K. Tacelli (eds.), The Rationality of Theism, Springer. pp. 125--143. 1999/2014.
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2Induction and Other Minds, IIReview of Metaphysics 21 (3): 524-533. 1968.The analogical position, as traditionally understood, is the claim that a person can inductively infer the existence of other minds from what he knows about his own mind and about physical objects. Of course this body of knowledge must not include such propositions about physical objects as "that human body over there is animated by a human mind," or "this automobile was designed by a human mind"; nor could my evidence for the existence of other minds be that I have it on the authority of some o…Read more
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173On Mereological EssentialismReview of Metaphysics 28 (3). 1975.This paper examines and comments on roderick chisholm's "parts as essential to their wholes", "review of metaphysics", Volume 26, 1973
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43Christian Philosophy at the End of the 20th CenturyIn Sander Griffioen & Bert Balk (eds.), Christian Philosophy at the Close of the Twentieth Century, . 1995.
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1Religious Belief as 'Properly Basic'In Brian Davies (ed.), Philosophy of religion: a guide and anthology, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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56. Gewährleisteter Glaube an GottIn Gewährleisteter Christlicher Glaube, De Gruyter. pp. 193-231. 2015.
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293Naturalism, Theism, Obligation and SupervenienceFaith and Philosophy 27 (3): 247-272. 2010.Take naturalism to be the idea that there is no such person as God or anything like God. Many philosophers hold that naturalism can accommodate serious moral realism. Many philosophers (and many of the same philosophers) also believe that moral properties supervene on non-moral properties, and even on naturalistic properties (where a naturalistic property is one such that its exemplification is compatible with naturalism). I agree that they do thus supervene, and argue that this makes trouble fo…Read more
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3Creation and Evolution: A Modest ProposalIn Robert T. Pennock (ed.), Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientifc Perspectives, Mit Press. 2001.
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263The probabilistic argument from evilPhilosophical Studies 35 (1). 1979.First I state and develop a probabilistic argument for the conclusion that theistic belief is irrational or somehow noetically improper. Then I consider this argument from the point of view of the major contemporary accounts of probability, Concluding that none of them offers the atheologian aid and comfort
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108Evolution, Neutrality, and Antecedent Probability: a Reply to Van Till and McMullinChristian Scholar's Review 21 (1): 80-109. 1991.First, I'd like to thank Professors Van Till, Pun, and McMullin for their careful and thoughtful replies. There is a deep level of agreement among all four of us; as is customary with replies and replies to replies, however, I shall concentrate on our areas of disagreement. In the cases of Van Till and McMullin, this may give an impression of deeper disagreement than actually exists. In the case of Pun it leaves me with little to say except Yea and Amen; I find no serious disagreement between us…Read more
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251The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism: An Initial Statement of the ArgumentIn Michael Ruse (ed.), Philosophy After Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Princeton University Press. pp. 301. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: * Notes
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