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Most Peers Don’t Believe It, Hence It Is Probably False [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Rob Lovering has recently argued that since theists have been unable, by means of philosophical arguments, to convince 85 percent of professional philosophers that God exists, at least one of their defining beliefs must be either false or meaningless ...
van Eyghen, Hans, van Woudenberg, René
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 455-476, December 2025.
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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Oppy and Modal Theistic Proofs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
I argue that Graham Oppy’s attempt to redefend his charge that all modal theistic arguments “must be question-begging” is unsuccessful. Oppy’s attempt to show that theism and modal concretism are compatible is not only tangential for his purposes, it is ...
Davis, Richard
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An Evaluation of Skeptical Theism

open access: yesSvensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2013
One of the most influential and frequently addressed responses to the evidential argument from Evil and divine hiddenness is advocated by so called skeptical theists, who claim that we are cognitively ill-equipped to know Gods reasons for permitting ...
Francis Jonsson
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Joseph Priestley [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
In his day, Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was a philosopher of some importance. He argued the case for materialism perhaps more cogently than did any British thinker before recent times.
Tapper, Alan
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Tadeusz Kotarbiński on God and Religion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The aim of the paper is the presentation of the main reasons of Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s atheism and an interpretation of his position in terms of the conceptual apparatus used in contemporary philosophical debate on atheism.
Łukasiewicz, Dariusz
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Omniscience, the Incarnation, and Knowledge de se [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A knowledge argument is offered that presents unique difficulties for Christians who wish to assert that God is essentially omniscient. The difficulties arise from the doctrine of the incarnation.
Buckareff, Andrei A.
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Skeptical Theism and Enlightenment Thinkers in Tracing Epistemological Humility

open access: yesJurnal Multidisiplin Ibrahimy
This study examines the origins and development of skeptical theism a philosophical position that reconciles belief in God with the recognition of human cognitive limitations in understanding divine providence, particularly regarding the problem of evil.
Michael Yurievich Kuznetsov
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Does Emergence Help in Defending Religious Belief? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The concept of emergence has gained some popularity\ud in the philosophy of mind and in metaphysico-epistemological\ud explorations of our current scientific worldview. This\ud concept is used to indicate that the �higher� levels of reality\ud (e.g.,
Pihlström, Sami
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Epistemological Principles of Philosophical Theism of Richard Swinburne.

open access: yesБогословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя, 2018
The article examines the epistemological foundations of the philosophical theology of the analytic philosopher of religion Richard Swinburne. The author analyzes the epistemological principles that determine: the nature of knowledge, the justification ...
Fedor STRYZHACHUK
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