Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy
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    Conceivability, possibility and the resurrection of material beings
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 80 (2): 115-132. 2016.
    In his 1998 postscript to ‘The Possibility of Resurrection’ Peter van Inwagen argues that the scenario he describes by which God might resurrect a human organism, even though probably not true, is still conceivable and, consequently, ‘serves to establish a possibility’, namely, the metaphysical possibility of the resurrection of material beings. Van Inwagen, however, has also argued in favour of ‘modal scepticism’ [van Inwagen in, God, knowledge and mystery: essays in philosophical theology, Cor…Read more