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11Readings in the Philosophy of Religion (edited book)Broadview. 2000.The collection maintains a balance between the challenging and the accessible. In all, the book includes over 50 selections in seven sections; each section opens with an introduction by the editor."--BOOK JACKET.
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652Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind: New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga (edited book)Oup Usa. 2012.In May 2010, philosophers, family and friends gathered at the University of Notre Dame to celebrate the career and retirement of Alvin Plantinga, widely recognized as one of the world's leading figures in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion. Plantinga has earned particular respect within the community of Christian philosophers for the pivotal role that he played in the recent renewal and development of philosophy of religion and philosophical theology. Each of the essays in…Read more
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12Naturalism and its DiscontentsIn The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism, Wiley. 2016.Naturalism admits of no single, simple definition (usually depending on the naturalist's commitment to science). After distinguishing ontological or metaphysic naturalism from methodological naturalism, I discuss the historical development of ontological naturalism, as well as arguments for or against naturalism. I then take moral goodness and badness as a case study of the problems and prospects for ontological naturalism.
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29Reason and the Christian Religion: Essays in Honour of Richard SwinburnePhilosophical Quarterly 46 (184): 407-411. 1996.
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10Reasoned Faith: Essays in Philosophical Theology in Honor of Norman KretzmannPhilosophical Review 103 (4): 743. 1994.
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13A companion to naturalism (edited book)Wiley. 2016.Since the turn of the twenty-first century, naturalism has become one of the most prominent philosophical orthodoxies in the Western academy. Yet naturalism is more often assumed than defended. The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism offers a systematic introduction that defines, discusses and defends philosophical naturalism. Essays tackle naturalism's role in existing cultural conversations, from Libertarianism to Confucianism, and provide detailed examinations of philosophical concepts like met…Read more
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854God and the brain: the rationality of belief -- free download of entire book!William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2019.Disproof of heaven? -- Brain and gods -- The rational stance -- Reason and belief in God -- Against naturalism -- Atheism, inference, and IQ -- Atheism, autism, and intellectual humility -- Googling God -- Inference, intuition, and rationality.
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20Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2021.This open access book addresses the question of how God can providentially govern apparently ungovernable randomness. Medieval theologians confidently held that God is provident, that is, God is the ultimate cause of or is responsible for everything that happens. However, scientific advances since the 19th century pose serious challenges to traditional views of providence. From Darwinian evolution to quantum mechanics, randomness has become an essential part of the scientific worldview. An inter…Read more
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9Blackwell Companion to Naturalism (edited book)Blackwell. 2016.Since the turn of the twenty-first century, naturalism has become one of the most prominent philosophical orthodoxies in the Western academy. Yet naturalism is more often assumed than defended. The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism offers a systematic introduction that defines, discusses and defends philosophical naturalism. Essays tackle naturalism's role in existing cultural conversations, from Libertarianism to Confucianism, and provide detailed examinations of philosophical concepts like met…Read more
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Motivating MoralityIn Kelly James Clark & Raymond J. VanArragon (eds.), Evidence and Religious Belief, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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39Spanish Common Sense Philosophy: Jaime Balmes' Critique of Cartesian FoundationalismHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 7 (2). 1990.
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Pluralism and proper functionIn Deane-Peter Baker (ed.), Alvin Plantinga, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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49Evidence and Religious Belief (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.A fundamental question in philosophy of religion is whether religious belief must be based on evidence in order to be properly held. In recent years two prominent positions on this issue have been staked out: evidentialism, which claims that proper religious belief requires evidence; and Reformed epistemology, which claims that it does not. Evidence and Religious Belief contains eleven chapters by prominent philosophers which push the discussion in new directions. The volume has three parts. The…Read more
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5Kua zong jiao dui hua, Zhongguo yu xi fang (edited book)Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she. 2004.该书收入的论文分为三部分。第一部分的六篇论文探讨了文化和宗教对话的理论基础;第二部分九篇论文则是具体的宗教比较和对话;第三部分的四篇论文则把重点放在中国宗教的研究上。
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120Trinity or Tritheism?Religious Studies 32 (4). 1996.The focus of this paper is the social trinitarian account in Richard Swinburne's "The Christian God." After setting out the route Swinburne follows in reaching his conclusions about the Godhead, I endeavour to show two things: (i) that his account does not avoid the charge of tritheism and thus is not faithful to key elements in the Christian creeds; (ii) the philosophical moves behind his conclusions are not compelling if, as we can, we challenge his assumptions about divine necessity. A better…Read more
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54Readings in the Philosophy of Religion - Third Edition (edited book)Broadview Press. 2017.This anthology contains the best of both classical and contemporary sources, offering a balanced historical approach to the philosophy of religion while reflecting the latest developments in the field. The included readings grapple with issues that are existentially compelling and provocative regardless of one’s religious leanings. Topics are covered in a point–counterpoint manner designed to foster deep reflection. This third edition contains an entirely new section on early Chinese religion as…Read more
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47The gods of Abraham, Isaiah, and ConfuciusDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 5 (1): 109-136. 2005.
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166Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of ReligionIn Melville Y. Stewart (ed.), Faith and Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 500--513. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: * Introduction * The Cognitive Science of Religion * The Internal Witness: The Sensus Divinitatis * Reformed Epistemology * Reformed Epistemology and Cognitive Science * Obstinacy in Belief * The External Witness: The Order of the Cosmos * The External Witness and the Cognitive Science of Religion * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography
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Probabilistic Confirmation Theory and the Existence of GodDissertation, University of Notre Dame. 1985.A recent development in the philosophy of religion has been the attempt to justify belief in God using Bayesian confirmation theory. My dissertation critically discusses two prominent spokesmen for this approach--Richard Swinburne and J. L. Mackie. Using probabilistic confirmation theory, these philosophers come to wildly divergent conclusions with respect to the hypothesis of theism; Swinburne contends that the evidence raises the overall probability of the hypothesis of theism, whereas Mackie …Read more
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Our Knowledge of God. Essays on Natural and Philosophical TheologyTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 56 (1): 179-179. 1994.