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59On the incoherence of molinism: incompatibility of middle knowledge with divine immutabilityInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 1-12. forthcoming.We argue that there is an incompatibility between the two basic principles of Molinism, i.e., God’s middle knowledge of counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, and divine immutability. To this end, firstly, we set out the difference between strong and weak immutability: according to the latter only God’s essential attributes remain unchanged, while the former affirms that God cannot change in any way. Our next step is to argue that Molinism ascribes strong immutability to God. However, according …Read more
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50Should Methodological Naturalists Commit to Metaphysical Naturalism?Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 1-9. 2019.It is widely supposed that methodological naturalism, understood as a thesis about the methodology of science, is metaphysically neutral, and that this in turn guarantees the value-neutrality of science. In this paper we argue that methodological naturalism is underpinned by certain ontological and epistemological assumptions including evidentialism and the causal closure of the physical, adoption of which necessitates commitment to metaphysical naturalism.
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268On the incompatibility of God's knowledge of particulars and the doctrine of divine immutabilityReligious Studies 58 (2): 327-344. 2022.Affirming that divine knowledge of occurrent changes among particulars is incompatible with the doctrine of divine immutability, this article seeks to resolve this tension by denying the latter. Reviewing this long-running debate, I first formalize the exchange between al-Ghazālı̄and Avicenna on this topic, and then set out the ways in which contemporary Sadrāean philosophers have tried to resolve the incompatibility. I argue that none of the cited Sadrāean attempts to resolve the incompatibi…Read more
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251Necessary Existence, Immutability, and God's Knowledge of Particulars: A Reply to Amirhossein ZadyousefiPhilosophy East and West 73 (1): 188-196. 2023.From the Qur'an, Surah Maryam: (21) So she conceived him, and went in seclusion with him to a remote place. (22) And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree: she cried (in her anguish): "Ah! would that I had died before this! Would that I had been a thing forgotten and out of sight!" (23) But (a voice) cried to her from beneath the (palm tree): "Grieve not! for thy Lord hath provided a rivulet beneath thee;" (24) "And shake towards thyself the trunk of the palm tree: it wil…Read more
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26Should Methodological Naturalists Commit to Metaphysical Naturalism?Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 51 (1): 185-193. 2020.It is widely supposed that methodological naturalism, understood as a thesis about the methodology of science, is metaphysically neutral, and that this in turn guarantees the value-neutrality of science. In this paper we argue that methodological naturalism is underpinned by certain ontological and epistemological assumptions including evidentialism and the causal closure of the physical, adoption of which necessitates commitment to metaphysical naturalism.
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64Evil in the Fine‐Tuned WorldHeythrop Journal 60 (5): 795-804. 2019.The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
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27Review of Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective, by Norman E. Bowie, 2nd edition: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 221 pp, ISBN: 978-1-107-12090-7 (review)Journal of Business Ethics 150 (2): 593-596. 2018.
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1051Divine Love and the Argument from Divine HiddennessEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 6 (2): 101--116. 2014.This paper criticizes one of the premises of Schellenberg’s atheistic argument from divine hiddenness. This premise, which can be considered as the foundation of his proposed argument, is based on a specific interpretation of divine love as eros. In this paper I first categorize several concepts of divine love under two main categories, eros and agape; I then answer some main objections to the ascription of eros to God; and in the last part I show that neither on a reading of divine love as agap…Read more
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65Evolutionary Religion. By J. L. Schellenberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 192 pp. Hardcover $34.95 (review)Zygon 50 (1): 256-259. 2015.
Ebrahim Azadegan
Sharif University Of Technology
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Sharif University Of TechnologyDepartment of Philosophy of ScienceAssociate Professor
Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |