• The Works of Bishop Butler (edited book)
    Boydell & Brewer. 2006.
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    The Elimination of Natural Theology
    The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 36 225-230. 1998.
    The dispute between fideists and rationalists seems intractable since those who argue for faith alone claim that they are offended by the use of reason in religion. The advocates of reason claim that they are equally offended by the appeal to faith. This dispute may be resolved by showing that those who rely on faith may be seen as engaging in an experiment of living, so they can become part of a rational experiment without having to alter their practice; in contrast, those who use reason to jus…Read more
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    The Grand Continuum: Reflections on Joyce and Metaphysics
    Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press. 1983.
    The assumptions that literary criticism and philosophy are closely linked—and that both disciplines can learn much from each other—lead David White to examine key passages in James Joyce’s novels both as a philosopher and as literary critic. In so doing, he develops a thesis that Joyce’s attempt to capture the mysterious process whereby perception and consciousness are translated into language entails a fundamental challenge to everyday notions of reality. Joyce’s stylistic brilliance and virtuo…Read more
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    Joseph Butler was an Anglican priest and later a bishop who wrote about ethics, religion, and other philosophical themes. He is not well known today. During his lifetime and into the early part of the twentieth century he was better known especially for his major work the Analogy of Religion (1736). Today he is known mostly for his sermons which are interpreted as essays on ethics and for his essay on identity. Butler had a profound effect on J. H. Newman, Matthew Arnold, and W. E. Gladstone a…Read more
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    Slippery slope arguments
    Metaphilosophy 16 (2‐3): 206-213. 1985.
  • Stephen T. Davis, God, Reason and Theistic Proofs (review)
    Philosophy in Review 19 89-90. 1999.
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    John Humphrey Noyes
    Philosophy Now 70 14-16. 2008.
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    The Journalist in Plato’s Cave (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 13 (4): 409-411. 1990.
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    The Piratical Philosophy of Freedom
    Philosophy Now 64 50-52. 2007.
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    In lieu of an abstract, here is the chapter's first paragraph: MOST OF BERTRAND RUSSELL'S BIOGRAPHERS do not even mention Horace Liveright, yet Liveright was a key player in the development of Russell as a popular philosopher and public intellectual. In particular, it was on a commission from Liveright that Russell wrote three of his best-selling books, books that are still in print and that many people have found helpful.
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    Ian Ramsey: To Speak Responsibly of God
    with Jerry H. Gill
    Philosophical Review 87 (1): 134. 1978.
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    Joseph Butler
    Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2001.
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    Butler (review)
    Faith and Philosophy 5 (3): 328-330. 1988.
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    Evil, Probation and the "Sunday Truth" of Theism
    The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 8 103-107. 2006.
    In this paper, I reconstruct the problem of evil as an argument to the conclusion, "No one can claim to be a theist without abandoning the ethics of belief that would ordinarily be required for a civil way of life." Most theistic replies to this argument reduce theism to a "Sunday truth," i.e., a sincere belief that has no direct relevance to ordinary life. Bishop Butler's position - that this world is best understood as a probationary state - is presented and defended. Nevertheless, Butler's ar…Read more
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    An Argument for God's Existence
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (2). 1979.
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    Evil, Probation and the
    The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 8 103-107. 2006.
    In this paper, I reconstruct the problem of evil as an argument to the conclusion, "No one can claim to be a theist without abandoning the ethics of belief that would ordinarily be required for a civil way of life." Most theistic replies to this argument reduce theism to a "Sunday truth," i.e., a sincere belief that has no direct relevance to ordinary life. Bishop Butler's position - that this world is best understood as a probationary state - is presented and defended. Nevertheless, Butler's ar…Read more
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