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If Molinism is true, what can you do?

counterexamples and the free will defense . Faith and Philosophy , 19 , 462 - 478 . Bergmann , M. ( 2003 ). Agent causation and responsibility: A reply to flint . Faith and Philosophy , 20 , 229 - 235 . Climenhaga ... Philosophy of Religion , 77 , 231 - 246 . Cohen , Y. ( 2016 ). Counterfactuals of divine freedom . International Journal for Philosophy of Religion , 79 , 185 - 205 . Craig , W. L. ( 2007 ). Sept. Q&A #23

Hearing God speak? Debunking arguments and everyday religious experiences

licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. Allen , C. ( 2020 ). Teleological Notions in Biology . In Zalta, E. N. (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2020 Edition ... being: Connections and distinctions . Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 9 ( 4 ), 321 - 341 . https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp. 2003 .0053 Coleman , T. J. , III., Bartlett , J. E. , Holcombe , J. M

Does moral anti-theodicy beg the question?

-theodicy . Philosophy. Compass , 11 , 1 . Betenson , T. ( 2019 ). In defence of moralising Anti-theodicy: A rely to Snellman . European Journal for Philosophy of Religion , 11 ( 1 ), 213 - 226 . Hick , J ... critique and defense of theodicy . Religious Studies , 49 , 439 - 458 . Simpson , R. M. ( 2009 ). Moral antitheodicy: Prospects and problems . International Journal for Philosophy of Religion , 65 , 153

God’s necessary existence: a thomistic perspective

Philosophy and Theology , Offenbacher Landstraße 224, 60599 Frankfurt , Germany 1 Åke Wahlberg There are strong reasons for assuming that Thomas Aquinas conceived of God's existence in terms of logical ... controversial notions in modern philosophy. At this point, I will merely mention two characteristics of logical necessity in this broad sense. First, broad logical necessity is stronger than factual necessity. If

Oppy on arguments and worldviews: an internal critique

one standard format for a paper in philosophy of religion. (1) Provide some introductory remarks that form the background to the subsequent discussion. (2) State an argument – either with the conclusion ... – which is just to say that interesting and controversial propositions are not tautologies. If they were, or if at least many philosophers suspected that they might be, we’d expect philosophy papers to

Why the debunking threat won’t go away

.), Evolutionary debunking arguments. Ethics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology (pp. 105 - 128 ). Routledge. Barrett , J. L. ( 2004 ). Why would anyone believe in god ... ), 639 - 675 . https://doi.org/10.1093/ jaarel/lfr008 Clark , K. J. , & Rabinowitz , D. ( 2011 ). Knowledge and the objection to religious belief from cognitive science . European Journal for Philosophy of

Thickening description: towards an expanded conception of philosophy of religion

An increasingly common complaint about philosophy of religion—especially, though not exclusively, as it is pursued in the “analytic tradition”—is that its preoccupation with questions of rationality ... related notions of thick description before turning to two specific examples, which illustrate the potential for engagement with ethnography to contribute to an expanded conception of philosophy of religion

The two parts of Kant’s moral religion

The undeniable historical fact has been recognised that Kant’s late philosophy of history constitutes the background for the introduction of the concept of radical evil, and that this concept leads Kant ... Kant’s appreciation of Christianity is an essential part of his project of transcendental philosophy. Certainly, as Kant once expressly recognised, the Gospel is “an everlasting guide to true wisdom,” with

Moral knowledge and the existence of god

evolutionary origins of our moral beliefs undermine moral knowledge? Biology and Philosophy, 26 , 51 - 64 . Cofnas , N. ( 2022 ). How Gene-Culture Coevolution Can-but Probably Did Not-Track Mind-Independent ... metanormative realism: How best to understand it, and how to cope with it . Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition , 148 ( 3 ), 413 - 438 . Gilbert , H

What could Jesus do?

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153 H. E. Baber 0 H. E. Baber 0 0 Department of Philosophy, University of San Diego , 5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, CA

Metaphors, religious language and linguistic expressibility

want to thank the participants of my talk at the DGPhil conference 2021, the members of the research colloquium of Christian Tapp and Benni Göcke as well as the participants of the philosophy of religion ... ). Literal and metaphorical meaning: In search of a lost distinction . Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy . https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X. 2022 . 2128867 . Alston , W. ( 1989 ). Divine

Faith and resilience

Washington University , Bellingham, WA 98225 , USA 1 Department of Philosophy, Boston College , 351N Stokes Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3806 , USA In this short essay, we sketch a theory of faith that ... Commandments to make moral, social, and political decisions, taking the sacraments, observing the holy days, and so on—is that she has faith in Jesus as her Lord. Naturally, we might wonder why she has faith but

An inexplicably good argument for causal finitism

. ( 2018 ). Infinity, causation, and paradox . Oxford University Press. Shackel , N. ( 2005 ). The form of the benardete dichotomy . British Journal for the Philosophy of Science , 56 ( 1 ), 397 - 417

Salvaging and secularizing the semantic contents of religion: the limitations of Habermas’s postmetaphysical proposal

The article considers Jürgen Habermas’s views on the relationship between postmetaphysical philosophy and religion. It outlines Habermas’s shift from his earlier, apparently dismissive attitude ... approaches to knowledge and validity may be useful. - political philosophy that are guided by what he calls a postmetaphysical impulse.1 In the present context, the most important feature of postmetaphysical

God is not a person (an argument via pantheism)

This paper transforms a development of an argument against pantheism into an objection to the usual account of God within contemporary analytic philosophy (’Swinburnian theism’). A standard criticism ... block the move to personhood. KeywordsPantheism Divine personhood Apophaticism Divine language  Is God a person? Since the advent of philosophy of religion in the analytic tradition the consensus of

Counting to infinity, successive addition, and the length of the past

Zarepour 1 Department of Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester , Humanities Bridgefoot Street Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL , UK The Successive Addition Argument ... Philosophy of Religion Project (ID# 61613) at the University of Birmingham. The opinions expressed in this publication are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation. Open

Logic in religious and non-religious belief systems

distinguish the phenomenon of religion from certain other worldviews, in particular from certain political ideologies (a number of other definitions do not). Relying on the findings, the paper develops two ... tradition of falsafa which developed Aristotelian philosophy and logic, represented by such distinguished thinkers as Ibn S¯ına¯ (Avicenna), Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and many others, but also by their critics

Preface

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion R. L. Hall 0 R. L. Hall 0 0 Department of Philosophy, Stetson University , Deland, FL 32723 , USA In the first article in this issue, the lead ... created the best possible kind of world. Multiverse theorists provide a controversial account of such a creation that professes to resolve some seemingly intractable problems in the philosophy of religion

Spirituality, spiritual sensibility and human growth

While notions of spirituality, spiritual experience and spiritual development seem much neglected in the literature of modern analytical philosophy, such terminology continues to be current in both ... of qualities that have been regarded as such by past philosophers. For the Greeks, especially Plato and Aristotle?and perhaps most analytical philosophy that has followed in their wake?the highest of

Fission theories of Original Guilt

Philosophy , Theology, and Religion , University of Birmingham , Birmingham B15 2TT , UK One reading of the Doctrine of Original Sin has it that we are guilty of a sin committed by Adam, thousands of years ... explaining the Trinity; if God decrees the impossible, then just have it that God decreed that He is three people and yet one substance. You don’t need to read the copious philosophy written on the Incarnation