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197Vaiṣṇava concepts of god: philosophical perspectives (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This book analyses the concepts of God in Vaisnavism, which is commonly referred to as one of the great Hindu monotheistic traditions. Addressing the question of what attributes God possesses according to particular textual sources and traditions in Vaisnavism, the book analyses Vaisnava traditions and texts in order to locate them within a global philosophical framework. The book is divided into two sections. The first one, God in Vaisnava Texts, deals with concepts of God found in the canonica…Read more
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5Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought. Cosmopolitan interventions (edited book)Taylor & Francis. 2023.For too long, scholars interested in panentheism have focused almost exclusively on Western approaches to the issue. This book offers the first in-depth study of a wide range of Indian paradigms of panentheism, both ancient and modern, and brings these paradigms into creative and constructive dialogue with Western traditions. This volume features original essays written by leading international scholars. The volume discusses a broad range of Indian panentheistic traditions, including the Upaniad…Read more
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9EditorialTheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 7 (1): 1-4. 2023.Analytic theology and Science-Engaged Theology are two of the most exciting movements within theology in recent years, and have much in common. Both are interdisciplinary endeavours that engage other sub-disciplines (analytic philosophy and the natural and behavioural sciences, respectively) in the service of theology. Many (although not all) of the same scholars actively contribute to both movements. Furthermore, analytic theology and science-engaged theology both maintain the primacy and integ…Read more
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14Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought: Cosmopolitan Interventions (edited book)Routledge. 2023.For too long, scholars interested in panentheism have focused almost exclusively on Western approaches to the issue. This book offers the first in-depth study of a wide range of Indian paradigms of panentheism, both ancient and modern, and brings these paradigms into creative and constructive dialogue with Western traditions. This volume features original essays written by leading international scholars. The volume discusses a broad range of Indian panentheistic traditions, including the Upaniṣa…Read more
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18The origin of origins a metaphysical argument for the existence of god in the tradition of de ente et essentiaBelgrade Philosophical Annual 35 69-89. 2022.In current theology the possibility of conclusive arguments for the existence of God is largely rejected by reference to Hume or Kant. Purportedly post-metaphysical surrogates are put in place of a metaphysically founded theology, where either the existence of God may be believed in only as a rational possibility, or else a radical constructivism about the existence of God is fallen into. Nevertheless, in the following, a conclusive metaphysical argument for the existence of God in the tradition…Read more
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28Joanna Leidenhag. Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of CreationJournal of Analytic Theology 10 745-749. 2022.
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486Introduction: The Philosophy and Theology of Karl Christian Friedrich KrauseEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 14 (2). 2022.Karl Christian Friedrich Krause left an impressive oeuvre consisting of 256 books and articles, covering numerous branches of philosophy, the humanities, and science.[1] His Urbild der Menschheit, his Vorlesungen über das System der Philosophie and his Vorlesungen über die Grundwahrheiten der Wissenschaft are of particular pertinence for philosophers today. [1] See: E. M. Ureña and E. Fuchs, “Einführung in das Gesamtwerk”, in Karl Christian Friedrich Krause. Band 1: Entwurf des Systems der Philo…Read more
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38From Existentialism to Metaphysics: The Philosophy of Stephen Priest (edited book)Peter Lang. 2021.The pieces collected here are written by fifteen philosophers and one poet who have been influenced by Stephen Priest, or develop themes in Priest’s philosophy, or both. They include contributions from the United Kingdom, the USA, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Taiwan and Japan by authors working in range of traditions. Topics covered include philosophical method, the analytical/continental divide, the nature of the mind (or self, or soul), metaphysics, and the meaning of life. The volume also includ…Read more
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33The Routledge Handbook of Idealism and Immaterialism (edited book)Routledge. 2021."The influence of materialist ontology largely dominates philosophical and scientific discussions. However, there is a resurgent interest in alternative ontologies from panpsychism to idealism and dualism. The Routledge Handbook of Idealism and Immaterialism is an outstanding reference source and the first major collection of its kind. Historically grounded and constructively motivated, it covers the key topics in philosophy, science, and theology, providing students and scholars with a comprehe…Read more
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19Mystical Experience and the Paraconsistent GodInternational Journal of Hindu Studies 25 (1-2): 79-85. 2021.
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24Karl Christian Friedrich Krause Einfluss auf Arthur Schopenhauers „Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung“Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 103 (1): 148-168. 2021.After a brief introduction to Krause’s life and work this article investigates the impression, based of the available sources, that Krause had an important influence on Schopenhauer’s philosophy. It then provides a concise systematic analysis of central elements of Krause’s and Schopenhauer’s thinking and thereby substantiates the claim that Krause did indeed have a significant influence on the development of the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.
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9PanentheismusIn Klaus Viertbauer & Georg Gasser (eds.), Handbuch Analytische Religionsphilosophie. Akteure – Diskurse – Perspektiven, Metzler. pp. 283-294. 2019.Der Begriff des Panentheismus wurde 1828 vom deutschen Philosophen Karl Christian Friedrich Krause in seinen Vorlesungen über das System der Philosophie eingeführt und bezeichnet dort die Synthese der Positionen des Theismus und des Pantheismus: Krause zufolge ist Gott als der eine unendliche und unbedingte Grund der Welt weder mit der Welt identisch noch nicht identisch mit der Welt. Stattdessen sei die Welt ein konstitutiver Teil der Existenz und des Wesens Gottes, der durch diesen Teil nicht …Read more
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35Panentheism and Panpsychism: Philosophy of Religion Meets Philosophy of Mind (edited book)Mentis. 2020.Panpsychism has become a highly attractive position in the philosophy of mind. On panpsychism, both the physical and the mental are inseparable and fundamental features of reality. Panentheism has also become immensely popular in the philosophy of religion. Panentheism strives for a higher reconciliation of an atheistic pantheism, on which the universe itself is causa sui, and the ontological dualism of necessarily existing, eternal creator and contingent, finite creation. Historically and syste…Read more
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684Panentheism, Transhumanism, and the Problem of Evil - From Metaphysics to EthicsEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11 (2): 65-89. 2019.There is a close systematic relationship between panentheism, as a metaphysical theory about the relation between God and the world, and transhumanism, the ethical demand to use the means of the applied sciences to enhance both human nature and the environment. This relationship between panentheism and transhumanism provides a ‘cosmic’ solution to the problem of evil: on panentheistic premises, the history of the world is the one infinite life of God, and we are part of the one infinite divine b…Read more
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51Beyond Faith and Rationality: Essays on Logic, Religion and Philosophy (edited book)Springer. 2020.This volume deals with the relation between faith and reason, and brings the latest developments of modern logic into the scene. Faith and rationality are two perennial key concepts in the history of ideas. Philosophers and theologians have struggled to bring into harmony these otherwise conflicting concepts. Despite the diversity of approaches about what rationality effectively means, logic remains the cannon of objective and rational thought. The chapters in this volume analyze several issues …Read more
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6Gottes Handeln in der Welt (edited book)Verlag Friedrich Pustet. 2017.Cover -- Titel -- Impressum -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Gibt es einen prinzipiellen Konflikt von Theologie, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaft? Eine kurze Analyse am Beispiel des Handelns Gottes in der Welt -- Historisch-systematischer Teil -- Ich wird dich also an griffen / Das du mir nit mugist entwichen. Göttliche Aktivität, seelisches Leiden und die Rolle der Gnade in Christus und die minnende Seele -- Opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt. Ein Grundaxiom der Trinitätstheologie in augustinisch…Read more
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40A Reply to Lataster and Bilimoria’s “Panentheism: What It Is and Is Not”Journal of World Philosophies 4 (1): 201-203. 2019.I summarize and critically respond to Raphael Lataster and Purushottama Bilimoria’s paper on panentheism. I show that their suggested concept of panentheism is useless for academic discourse because it refers to contradictory positions.
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21The Existence of Evil in Christian and Naturalistic WorldviewsSynthesis Philosophica 32 (1): 5-20. 2017.
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19A Scientific Theology? A Programmatic Account of the Problems and Prospects for Confessional and Scientific TheologyTheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 1 (1): 53-77. 2017.
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47Holm Tetens on Panentheism: The Concept of Panentheism, Sin, and Special Divine ActionNeue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 59 (4): 482-494. 2017.SummaryWe briefly clarify Tetens’s concept of God and argue that there are some problems regarding both the precise formulation of his panentheism as well as its implications for sin and special divine action.
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72Christian CyborgsFaith and Philosophy 34 (3): 347-364. 2017.Should or shouldn’t Christians endorse the transhumanist agenda of changing human nature in ways fitting to one’s needs? To answer this question, we first have to be clear on what precisely the thesis of transhumanism entails that we are going to evaluate. Once this point is clarified, I argue that Christians can in principle fully endorse the transhumanist agenda because there is nothing in Christian faith that is in contradiction to it. In fact, given certain plausible moral assumptions, Chris…Read more
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67Did god know it? God’s relation to a world of chance and randomnessInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 78 (2): 233-254. 2015.A common type of argument against the existence of God is to argue that certain essential features associated with the existence of God are inconsistent with certain other features to be found in the actual world. for an analysis of the different ways to deploy the term “God” in philosophical and theological discourse and for an analysis of the logical form of arguments for and against the existence of God.) A recent example of this type of argument against the existence of God is based on the a…Read more
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225On the importance of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's panentheismZygon 48 (2): 364-379. 2013.Panentheism is an often-discussed alternative to Classical theism, and almost any discussion of panentheism starts by way of acknowledging Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832) as the person who coined the term.1 However, apart from this tribute, Krause's own panentheism is almost completely unknown. In what follows, I first present a brief overview of Krause's life and correct some misconceptions of his work before I turn to the core ideas of Krause's own panentheistic system of philosoph…Read more
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101Spirituality as a rhetorical precondition for knowledge of GodHeythrop Journal 51 (6): 1011-1016. 2010.In a first step I show that given a philosophically<br>warranted concept of God, arguments for<br>the existence of God are either questionbegging<br>or merely stipulative. In a second step<br>I argue that non-stipulative knowledge of God<br>and His existence is intelligible if and only if<br>there is an intellectual intuition of God. I<br>further argue that to obtain this intuition,<br>spiritual training may be necessary. Consistently<br>in this latter case, spirituality becomes a<br>conditio si…Read more
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9How to Kripke Brandom's Notion of NecessityIn Bernd Prien & David P. Schweikard (eds.), Robert Brandom: Analytic Pragmatist, Ontos. 2008.In this paper we discuss Brandom's definition of necessity, which is part of the incompatibility sematnics he develops in his fifth John Locke Lecture. By comparing incompatibility semantics to standard Kripkean possible worlds semantics for modality, we motivate an alternative definition of necessity in Brandom's own terms. Our investigation of this alternative necessity will show that - contra to Brandom's own results - incompatibility semantics does not necessarily lead to the notion of neces…Read more
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University of OxfordResearcher
Munich School of Philosophy
Alumnus, 2013
Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
19th Century Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |