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Faith and Philosophy, 1999 In this chapter, Merold Westphal suggests that Christian philosophers pay more attention to their other audience, the Church, that they reflect on ways in which their situation is similar to that of feminist philosophers, and that they seek to transcend not only the foundationalism and evidentialism of modernity, but also to go beyond its monological ...
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Motivating reasons: The state of the question
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 483-500, December 2025.Abstract This article surveys the state of the currently burgeoning debate on motivating reasons, which spans across theoretical and practical philosophy. I focus on the metaphysical project at the forefront of this debate, that is, the quest for an account of the nature of motivating reasons, which covers both reasons for which we act as well as ...
Jean Moritz Müller
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The Challenge of Theodicy and the Divine Access to the Universe [PDF]
, 2009 Any new attempt to cope with the problem of theodicy is forced to reinterpret and remodify the classic set of divine attributes. Classical monotheism, at least in the Christian or Islamic tradition, emphasizes the concept of God as a personal, almighty ...
Schärtl, Thomas
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Brecht, emotion, and the reflective spectator: The case of BLACKKKLANSMAN
NECSUS, 2019 This article argues that ‘late Brechtian’ theory about the relationship between the play/film design and the spectator’s experience, especially in regard to emotion, has much to teach about reflective spectatorship.
Carl Plantinga
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Naturalism, Theism, and the Origin of Life [PDF]
, 1998 Alvin Plantinga and Phillip E. Johnson strongly attack "metaphysical naturalism", a doctrine based, in part, on Darwinian concepts. They claim that this doctrine dominates American academic, educational, and legal thought, and that it is both erroneous ...
Earley, Joseph E.
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The paradox of ineffability [PDF]
, 2017 Saying that x is ineffable seems to be paradoxical – either I cannot say anything about x, not even that it is ineffable – or I can say that it is ineffable, but then I can say something and it is not ineffable.
Sebastian, Gäb
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On the Knowledge of God and the Metaphysics of Aquinas [PDF]
, 2018 Thomas Aquinas argues in his seminal work, the Summa Theologiae, that one can come to know the existence of God through rational argumentation alone. As a theologian writing a work of theology, he makes his demonstrations concerning God’s existence from ...
Green, Tom
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Será procedente o argumento de Plantinga contra o naturalismo metafísico?
Princípios, 2016 O naturalismo metafísico é a perspetiva de que não há uma pessoa como Deus, nem algo semelhante a Deus. Alvin Plantinga tem argumentado que esta perspetiva é auto-refutante e, por isso, irracional. Isto porque se o naturalismo metafísico fosse verdadeiro
Domingos Faria
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Difficulties of Simplicity [PDF]
, 2017 This paper attempts to show that the doctrine of divine simplicity suffers from difficulties which undermine its plausibility. The main difficulties explored are Plantinga’s problem of double identification, Pruss’ multiple attributes problem, and ...
Bradley, Cody M
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Plantinga's Internal and External Approach toRationality of Belief in God [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2015 Various views about the rationality/irrationality of believing in God have been suggested by western religious and secular thinners. The theory of "Basicalism" together with its similar views such as "Evidentialism", "Fideism ...
Mahdi Farajipak
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