University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1988
Parkland, Washington, United States of America
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    George E. Arbaugh, 1933-2002
    with Greg Johnson
    Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 76 (5). 2003.
    An obituary of our colleague at Pacific Lutheran University.
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    Scientific Method and the Appraisal of Religion: KEITH J. COOPER
    Religious Studies 21 (3): 319-329. 1985.
    In looking for criteria by which to assess religious conceptual systems, many philosophers have turned for help to scientific methodology. Perhaps this is because they felt philosophers of science were themselves looking in the right epistemological direction, and had a viable way of describing what they saw. Richard Swinburne has provided a strong, sustained treatment of the application of scientific method to religious truth claims, in The Existence of God . He there makes use of what he sees …Read more
  • The Use of Scientific Method in Assessing Religious Conceptual Systems
    Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin - Madison. 1988.
    Recent work in the philosophy of religion has recast traditional arguments for the existence of God into a "cumulative case" argument which provides good, but not conclusive, grounds for believing that God exists. Drawing parallels with scientific methodology, this has often involved offering an argument to the best explanation of the world's existence and nature. ;I explore the underlying methodology here, and defend the propriety of using inferences to the best explanation in metaphysical cont…Read more
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