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88Incarnation and the Divine Hiddenness DebateHeythrop Journal 54 (2): 252-260. 2013.This paper examines the debate that has arisen in connection with J. L. Schellenberg's work on divine hiddenness. It singles out as especially deserving of attention Paul Moser's proposal that the debate distinguish more clearly between classical theism and Hebraic theisms. This worthwhile proposal, I argue, will be unlikely to exert its full potential influence upon the debate unless certain features of Christian incarnation belief are recognized and addressed in connection with it
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31Images of the Human: The Philosophy of the Human Person in a Religious ContextInternational Philosophical Quarterly 37 (2). 1997.Images of the human is the collective effort of thirteen philosophy professors to address the questions human beings have been asking for centuries. The book presents selections from the major works of eighteen of the best-known philosophers from ancient to modern times. Each chapter focuses on the writings of a different philosopher - from Plato to Nietzsche, Augustine to Sartre - and includes an introduction and critical comentary
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30The retrieval of 'liveness' in William James's will to believeInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 42 (2): 97-118. 1997.This article argues against the longstanding view that William James's "Will to Believe" defends the "adoption" of certain beliefs, especially if such beliefs give rise to favourable consequences. I contend, rather, that James is resisting the cultural propensity to call for the "abandonment" of certain beliefs or propensities to believe. A failure to recognize this feature of his position has resulted from a widespread neglect of one of the three distinguishing characteristics of options and pr…Read more
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24The Inadequacy of Wishful Thinking Charges against William James's "The Will to Believe"Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 33 (2). 1997.
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15Alvin Plantinga and natural theologyInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 30 (1). 1991.
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10The Philosophy of William James: Radical Empiricism and Radical Materialism (review)Review of Metaphysics 69 (3): 620-621. 2016.
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10Grace and Philosophy: Understanding a Gratuitous WorldMcgill-Queen's University Press. 2019.Philosophy has traditionally engaged the problem of why there is something rather than nothing as a normal causal question. Such an approach, Hunter Brown proposes in Grace and Philosophy, does not do justice to the deep wonder and astonishment that the existence of the world elicits so widely among human beings. Such wonder has often been expressed in artistic and literary ways, including especially the language of grace, which captures the striking gratuity of existence and the spontaneous, gr…Read more
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9William James On Radical Empiricism and ReligionUniversity of Toronto Press. 2000.Hunter Brown shows that Henry James's views of religious experience do not in fact lapse into subjectivismor fideism that critics have accused him of but occasions hardships and self-sacrifice which James describes.
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8Structured as a self-standing course in philosophy, this book presents and examines selections from the primary works of 18 of the best known philosophers from ancient to modern times. Each chapter focuses on the writings of a different philosopher--from Plato to Nietzsche, Augustine to Sartre--and includes an introduction and critical commentary by one of the professors.
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5Love Does Not Seek Its Own: Augustine, Economic Division, and the Formation of a Common Life (review)Augustinian Studies 53 (1): 124-127. 2022.
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IndexIn William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion, University of Toronto Press. pp. 179-185. 2000.
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William James's "Will to Believe" RevisitedDissertation, Mcmaster University (Canada). 1996.The purpose of this dissertation is to defend William James's will to believe doctrine from the main lines of criticism which have been levelled against it throughout the last century. Principal among such criticisms are accusations that James fideistically advocated an intrusion of the subject into doxastic practice which opens the door to wishful thinking, and that he confused belief and hypothesis-adoption. My defense of James against such charges will be based upon analyses of two important …Read more
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NotesIn William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion, University of Toronto Press. pp. 147-170. 2000.
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IntroductionIn William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion, University of Toronto Press. pp. 3-10. 2000.
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1. The Woodpecker and the GrubIn William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion, University of Toronto Press. pp. 11-28. 2000.
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3. Subjectivity and BeliefIn William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion, University of Toronto Press. pp. 66-93. 2000.
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ConclusionIn William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion, University of Toronto Press. pp. 141-146. 2000.
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BibliographyIn William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion, University of Toronto Press. pp. 171-178. 2000.