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149Providence and the Magnitude of the UniverseDialog 61. 2022.Why did God create a vast universe? Various answers are discussed and rejected: a) for its beauty; b) to instill a sense of the sublime in his intelligent creatures; c) to demonstrate his glory, d) to provide a home for extraterrestrial species; e) to guarantee that the natural emergence of (intelligent) life, though extremely rare, happens nonetheless somewhere; f) for no reason at all, because the human notion of efficiency does not apply to God’s actions. Instead, the paper suggests that the …Read more
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37Richard Swinburne: Christian Philosophy in a Modern World (edited book)ontos. 2008.Richard Swinburne is one of the most influential contemporary proponents of the analytical philosophy of religion. He is, above all, a traditional theist. However, his interests are very wide-ranging. He has written about nearly all central theological and philosophical issues such as epistemology, metaphysics, theory of mind and ethics. During the “Münstersche Vorlesungen 2007” students and faculty members of the Department of Philosophy at Münster University entered into a skilful and interes…Read more
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8Why basic theistic belief is probablyIn Rene van Woudenberg, Sabine Roeser & Ron Rood (eds.), Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge, Ontos-verlag. pp. 4--211. 2005.
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7Methodus als Lebensweg bei Johann Conrad Dannhauer. Existentialisierung der Dialektik in der Lutherischen Orthodoxie: D. Bolliger. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020, ix + 710 pp. €149,95. ISBN 978-3-11-046504-4History and Philosophy of Logic 43 (2): 198-200. 2022.As the author of the first book on general hermeneutics Johann Conrad Dannhauer occupies a place in the pantheon of philosophy. The Lutheran theologian wo...
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4D. BolligerHistory and Philosophy of Logic 1-3. forthcoming.As the author of the first book on general hermeneutics Johann Conrad Dannhauer occupies a place in the pantheon of philosophy. The Lutheran theologian wo...
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3Is the Origin of Life a Fluke? Why the chance hypothesis should not be dismissed too quicklyIn Andreas Losch (ed.), What Is Life? On Earth and Beyond, Cambridge University Press. pp. 132-155. 2017.The origin of life on Earth is one of the great unsolved mysteries of science. Although no complete account of life’s beginnings is available and although no life forms that emerged independently on other planets have been discovered, most origin-of-life-researchers and astrobiologists dismiss a chance scenario out of hand. I argue that this is a mistake for at least two reasons. First, given a sufficiently big and adequately variegated cosmos any finite chance of life emerging on Earth-like pla…Read more
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3Thomas Buchheim/Friedrich Hermanni/Axel Hutter/Christoph Schwöbel (Hgg.), Gottesbeweise als Herausforderung für die moderne Vernunft (= Collegium Metaphysicum, Bd. 4)Philosophisches Jahrbuch 121 (1): 163-168. 2014.
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1Skepticism, Correspondence, and TruthIn Attila Karakus & Andreas Vieth (eds.), Richard Rorty: His Philosophy Under Discussion, Verlag. pp. 97-108. 2005.
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Gott liebt uns nichtIn Benedikt Paul Göcke & Ruben Schneider (eds.), Gottes Handeln in der Welt, Verlag Friedrich Pustet. 2017.
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Theologischer Antirealismus – und warum er so uninteressant istIn Christoph Halbig & Christian Suhm (eds.), Was ist wirklich?: Neuere Beiträge zu Realismusdebatten in der Philosophie, De Gruyter. pp. 397-428. 2004.
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Franz von Kutschera: Analytische Philosophie jenseits des Materialismus (edited book)Lit Verlag Münster. 2005.
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Why basic theistic belief is probably not warranted, even if it is trueIn René Woudenberg, Sabine Roeser & Ron Rood (eds.), Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge: Papers in Epistemology, De Gruyter. pp. 211-228. 2005.