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3Nicholas Wolterstorff, Divine Discourse: Philosophical reflections on the claim that God speaks Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (6): 441-443. 1996.
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3R. Douglas Geivett, Evil and the Evidence for God: The Challenge of Hick's Theodicy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 15 (2): 102-104. 1995.
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Self, God, and Immortality: A Jamesian Investigation, by Eugene Fontinell (review)Ars Disputandi 3. 2003.
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Some Issues Concerning the Epistemic Value of Religious ExperienceDissertation, University of Washington. 1994.This dissertation focuses on a number of issues concerning the epistemic value of religious experience, with frequent references to recent work on this topic by William Alston, Richard Gale, and many others. The dissertation begins with a defense of talk about rights, obligation, and permission in epistemic discourse. Chapter One ends with the presentation of two epistemological theses: that the testimony of mystics could serve as an epistemic ground for the religious beliefs of non-mystics; tha…Read more
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43Gale in Reference and Religious ExperienceFaith and Philosophy 13 (1): 91-112. 1996.Richard Gale, in On the Nature and Existence of God, offers several reasons why an “historical-cum-indexical” theory of reference cannot be appropriate in explaining how people refer to God. The present paper identifies five distinct lines of argument in Gale, attempts to clarify several important desiderata for a successful theory of reference, and argues that Gale fails to discharge the burden of proof he has assumed, leaving the most important features of Alston’s “direct reference” theory un…Read more
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28Experience of God and the Rationality of Theistic Belief (review)Review of Metaphysics 52 (1): 149-150. 1998.Jerome Gellman argues in Experience of God that there is “some” reasonable application of the canons of rationality to the facts concerning apparent experiences of God “on which it is reasonable to believe that God exists and not reasonable to believe that God does not exist”. The book is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter sets the conceptual groundwork, discussing the meaning and reference of “God,” what is meant by “experience of God,” and the like. Gellman’s treatment of “God” as …Read more
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M.A. Corey, God And The New Cosmology: The Anthropic Design Argument (review)Philosophy in Review 14 246-248. 1994.
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