| Description |
1 online resource (217 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover ; Copyright and Use; Title Page; Contents; About the Author; Preface; Introduction; What is the Philosophy of Religion? ; Faith and Reason; Deductivism and Inductivism: Two Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion; Theism and Atheism; The Elements of Theism; Atheism; Neo-Thomism and the Rise of Analysis; Neo-Thomism: Basic Elements; Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange and the Five Ways; The Beginnings of Analytic Philosophy; Stages in the Development of Analytic Philosophy; Analysis and Neo-Thomism: Early Encounters ; The Problem of Religious Language |
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The Thomistic Theory of Analogical Predication Talk of God in the Analytic Tradition ; The "Theology and Falsification" Debate; Non-cognitivist Approaches to Religious Language; The "Parity Argument": An Epistemological Counterattack; The Argument from Evil and the Origin of Inductivism ; Mackie's Argument; Pike and Plantinga: Refuting the Deductive Argument from Evil; John Hick's Irenaean Theodicy; The Atheistic Response to Pike and the Transition to Inductivism; The Inductivist Paradigm; Basil Mitchell: The Justification of Religious Belief |
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Swinburne's Inductivist Theism: the General StrategySwinburne's Positive Argument for Theism; Swinburne on Evil and the Hiddenness of God; Swinburne on Religious Experience and Miracles; J.L. Mackie's Critique of Swinburne; Inference to the Best Explanation and the Future of Inductivism; The Ontological Argument Redivivus; The Classical Ontological Argument(s); Hartshorne, Findlay and Malcolm: The Modal Ontological Argument; Possible Worlds; Plantinga's Ontological Argument; The Cosmological Argument Redivivus; The Leibniz/Clarke Argument |
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The New Physico-Theology I: The "Big Bang" Cosmological ArgumentThe Kalam Cosmological Argument; The Teleological Argument Redivivus ; F.R. Tennant's Teleological Argument; The New Physico-Theology II: The "Fine Tuning" Argument; The Future of the Teleological Argument; Post-Deductivism and the Rise of Christian Philosophy; Protestant Philosophy before Analysis; Plantinga's "Christian Philosophy"; Foundationalism and the Ethics of Belief; Plantinga's "Reformed Epistemology"; Philosophy of Religion Today; Contemporary Theistic Philosophy; Contemporary Atheistic Philosophy |
| Summary |
This book is a reconstruction and interpretation of the development of analytic philosophy of religion in Britain and the United States, with special reference to the debate over the existence of God and the problem of evil, during the last fifty years." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion -- Philosophy.
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Analysis (Philosophy)
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Analysis (Philosophy)
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Religion -- Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1847600433 |
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9781847600431 |
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1282040375 |
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9781282040373 |
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