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Is there something of divinity regarding Kant’s account of reason? International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Morgan Keith Jackson
This article undertakes a crucial examination of Kant’s depiction of the interconnectedness between human reason and the divine. The argument posits that Kant conceptualizes reason as inherently founded on a divine basis. The primary objective of this article is not to delve into whether Kant endorses or dismisses specific Christian doctrines, or if his portrayal of reason aligns with a particular
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Mystical ineffability: a nonconceptual theory International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Sebastian Gäb
This paper discusses the nonconceptual theory of mystical ineffability which claims that mystical experiences can’t be expressed linguistically because they can’t be conceptualized. I discuss and refute two objections against it: (a) that unconceptualized experiences are impossible, and (b) that the theory is ad hoc because it provides no reason for why mystical experiences should be unconceptualizable
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Another Wittgensteinian response to the evolutionary argument against naturalism International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast
In “The evolutionary argument against naturalism: a Wittgensteinian response,” DeVito and McNabb (Int J Philos Relig 92(2):91–98, 2022, 10.1007/s11153-022-09832-3) propose a Wittgensteinian argument against Alvin Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism. In their paper, they seek to establish symmetry between a component of Plantinga’s premise and the premise of the radical skeptic. The
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The negative theology of absolute infinity: Cantor, mathematics, and humility International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Rico Gutschmidt, Merlin Carl
Cantor argued that absolute infinity is beyond mathematical comprehension. His arguments imply that the domain of mathematics cannot be grasped by mathematical means. We argue that this inability constitutes a foundational problem. For Cantor, however, the domain of mathematics does not belong to mathematics, but to theology. We thus discuss the theological significance of Cantor’s treatment of absolute
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On the incoherence of molinism: incompatibility of middle knowledge with divine immutability International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Farid al-Din Sebt, Ebrahim Azadegan, Mahdi Esfahani
We argue that there is an incompatibility between the two basic principles of Molinism, i.e., God’s middle knowledge of counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, and divine immutability. To this end, firstly, we set out the difference between strong and weak immutability: according to the latter only God’s essential attributes remain unchanged, while the former affirms that God cannot change in any way
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Spiritual oneness and the cognitive science of religion International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Veronica Campos, Daniel De Luca-Noronha
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Time, atemporal existence, and divine temporal consciousness: a bimodalist account for divine consciousness International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Lyu Zhou
If God exists atemporally, could God still be temporally conscious? This article aims to clarify a conceptual space for a divine temporal mode of consciousness under the traditional assumption that God exists atemporally. I contend that an atemporally existing and conscious God – by the divine nature, and not just the human nature in Christ – could also be conscious of the temporal world – and indeed
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Getting tense about the atonement International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Andrew Hollingsworth, R. T. Mullins
This paper argues for the coherence of penal substitutionary theories of atonement (PSA) with presentism. After summarizing both the PSA and presentism, we address two major objections to the coherence of these two doctrines working together, namely that (1) there is no reality of the future sins that are atoned for, and (2) that since the past no longer exists, there no longer exists anything for
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If Molinism is true, what can you do? International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Andrew Law
Suppose Molinism is true and God placed Adam in the garden because God knew Adam would freely eat of the fruit. Suppose further that, had it not been true that Adam would freely eat of the fruit, were he placed in the garden, God would have placed someone else there instead. When Adam freely eats of the fruit, is he free to do otherwise? This paper argues that there is a strong case for both a positive
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Hearing God speak? Debunking arguments and everyday religious experiences International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Lari Launonen
Against claims that cognitive science of religion undercuts belief in God, many defenders of theistic belief have invoked the Religious Reasons Reply: science cannot undercut belief in God if one has good independent reasons to believe. However, it is unclear whether this response helps salvage the god beliefs of most people. This paper considers four questions: (1) What reasons do Christians have
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A Buddhist approach to moral knowledge without god International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Nicholaos Jones
Noah McKay provides a novel argument for theism over naturalism. The argument is novel because it connects metaphysical issues to issues regarding moral epistemology. The connection concerns the power of theism and naturalism, respectively, to explain the human capacity to obtain correct beliefs about the domain of morality. The gist of McKay’s argument is that theism provides a much more plausible
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On the metaphysics of the incarnation International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Joshua R. Sijuwade
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Does moral anti-theodicy beg the question? International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Gabriel Echazú
Some philosophers of religion have argued that moral anti-theodicy begs the question. This paper evaluates the arguments from two such philosophers, writing a decade apart—Robert Mark Simpson, and Lauri Snellman. Simpson argues that any global argument against theodicy must allow for the possibility of there existing a plausible theodicy, and that anti-theodical arguments (the argument from insensitivity
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God’s necessary existence: a thomistic perspective International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Åke Wahlberg
There are strong reasons for assuming that Thomas Aquinas conceived of God’s existence in terms of logical necessity in a broad sense. Yet this seems to stand in some tension with the fact that he excludes the possibility of a priori arguments for the existence of God. One apparently attractive way of handling this tension is to use a two-dimensional framework inspired by Saul Kripke. Against this
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Simply providential: a Thomistic response to Schmid’s providential collapse argument against classical theism International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Daniel Shields
Classical theism is often said to suffer from the problem of modal collapse: if God is necessary and simple then all of his effects (creatures) are also necessary. Many classical theists have turned to extrinsic predication in response: God’s simple and necessary act is compatible with any number of possible effects or no effects, and is only said to be an act of creating in virtue of the existence
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Oppy on arguments and worldviews: an internal critique International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Bálint Békefi
This paper develops an internal critique of Graham Oppy’s metaphilosophy of religion – his theories of argumentation, worldview comparison, and epistemic justification. First, it presents Oppy’s views and his main reasons in their favor. Second, it argues that Oppy is committed to two claims – that only truth-conducive reasons can justify philosophical belief and that such justification depends entirely
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God’s absolute immutability vis-a-vis his real relation with the world International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Aloysius Nnaemeka Ezeoba
The absolute immutability of God, as it was expounded by many ancient and medieval thinkers such as Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, contends that God has no real relation with the world, but only a relation of reason. This view lingered until contemporary scholars like the process thinkers such as Alfred North Whitehead and his disciple, Charles Hartshorne, argued that God has a dipolar meaning that
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Descartes on intellectual joy and the intellectual love of god International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Zachary Agoff
Descartes maintains that we can love God and that it is pleasant and morally beneficial to do so. In this essay, I examine the necessary conditions for such an intellectual love of God. I argue that the intellectual love of God is incited by a judgment that we are joined to God in reality, which is constitutive of an intellectual joy. I go on to show that the intellectual love of God is, itself, constituted
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A reason for apatheism International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Conrado Vasconcelos Gonçalves
In a recent paper, Trevor Hedberg and Jordan Huzarevich assessed a number of objections against practical apatheism, concluding that they are either unsuccessful or at least very controversial. The aim of this discussion note is to contribute to their discussion by presenting and analysing a short argument for a reason in favor of apatheism; one that appeals to a particular universalist formulation
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The premortalist free will defense International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-08-16 James Spiegel
As a response to the problem of evil, the free will defense proposes that evil might exist as a consequence of God’s endowing human beings with moral freedom which we have tragically misused. Standard versions of the free will defense assume that (1) our moral freedom began in this earthly existence and (2) what explains our suffering in this world must constitute an abuse rather than a right use of
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What could Jesus do? International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-08-11 H. E. Baber
According to many orthodox Christian theologies Jesus is not merely sinless but impeccable: he not only did not sin but could not. This is puzzling because one can only sin by doing something else and, prima face, Jesus can do actions that you or I could do by which we would sin. I suggest that appearances to the contrary, Jesus cannot do a variety of actions that a merely human duplicate could do
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God and gratuitous evil: Between the rock and the hard place International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Luis R. G. Oliveira
To most of us – believers and non-believers alike – the possibility of a perfect God co-existing with the kinds of evil that we see calls out for explanation. It is unsurprising, therefore, that the belief that God must have justifying reasons for allowing all the evil that we see has been a perennial feature of theistic thought. Recently, however, a growing number of authors have argued that the existence
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Adams’ theory of goodness as Godlikeness amended International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Seyyed Abbas Kazemi
In his Finite and Infinite Goods, Robert Adams puts forward a theistic framework for ethics according to which finite objects of value become good through resembling God who is the infinite Good and is the source and criterion of goodness. One question that immediately arises regarding this theory is whether any resemblance to God is sufficient for goodness or not. Adams’ answer to this question is
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Why the debunking threat won’t go away International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Halvor Kvandal
A central claim often made to debunk religious beliefs is that they would be formed regardless of whether they are true or false. One way to support this claim is to apply findings from the cognitive science of religion. However, this use of science in an argument against religious beliefs has been strongly criticized. This article is about weaknesses in that criticism. I consider two arguments. Firstly
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Malebranche on Space, Time, and Divine Simplicity International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Torrance Fung
Not much attention has been paid to Malebranche’s philosophy of time. Scholars who have written on it have typically written about it only in passing, and by and large discuss it only in relation to his philosophy of religion. This is appropriate insofar as Malebranche doesn’t discuss his views of time in isolation from his religious metaphysics. I argue that Malebranche’s conception of how created
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Reconsidering the Alien Doctor Analogy: a challenge to skeptical theism International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Luke Tucker
The claim that skeptical theism induces moral paralysis or aporia (known as the moral paralysis objection) has been extensively discussed. In this context, Stephen Maitzen has introduced the Alien Doctor Analogy, an intriguing case that he employs to advance the moral paralysis objection. Michael Rea, however, has criticized the analogy for portraying the skeptical theist uncharitably. In this essay
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Narratives & spiritual meaning-making in mental disorder International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Kate Finley
Narratives structure and inform how we understand our experiences and identity, especially in instances of suffering. Suffering in mental disorder (e.g. bipolar disorder) is often uniquely distressing as it impacts capacities central to our ability to make sense of ourselves and the world—and the role of narratives in explaining and addressing these effects is well-known. For many with a mental disorder
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An inexplicably good argument for causal finitism International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Ibrahim Dagher
Causal finitism, the view that the causal history of any event must be finite, has garnered much philosophical interest recently—especially because of its applicability to the Kalām cosmological argument. The most prominent argument for causal finitism is the Grim Reaper argument, which attempts to show that, if infinite causal histories are possible, then other paradoxical states of affairs must also
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Neo-Cartesianism and the expanded problem of animal suffering International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Phil Halper, Kenneth Williford, David Rudrauf, Perry N. Fuchs
Several well-known theodicies, whatever their merits, seem to make little sense of animal suffering. Here we argue that the problem of animal suffering has more layers than has generally been acknowledged in the literature and thus poses an even greater challenge to traditional Judeo-Christian Theism than is normally thought. However, the Neo-Cartesian (NC) defence would succeed in defanging this Expanded
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Elucidating open theism International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Joshua R. Sijuwade
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The two parts of Kant’s moral religion International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Rogelio Rovira
Why in the Critique of Practical Reason is moral religion presented as a doctrine of the postulates of pure practical reason, of which Christian morality, considered as a philosophical doctrine, is an illustration, whereas in the Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason moral religion is ultimately identified with a particular moral interpretation of the religious dogmas of Christianity? In this
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Religious conversion, philosophy, and social science International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Oliver Thomas Spinney
I argue that empirical studies into the phenomenon of religious conversion suffer from conceptual unclarity owing to an absence of philosophical contributions. I examine the relationship between definition and empirical result in the social sciences, and I show that a wide divergence in conceptual approach threatens to undermine the possibility of useful comparative study. I stake out a distinctive
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Game theory and omniscience International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Jeff Jordan
Game theory studies the choices of two or more agents strategically interacting under various conditions. This paper examines two applications of omniscience in game theory. The first has to do with the paradox of altruism. The paradox of altruism results when players, by seeking to maximize the outcomes of other players, bring about inferior outcomes for all the players. Not surprisingly, an omniscient
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Prolegomena to a Buddhist philosophy of religion International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Rafal K. Stepien
This article investigates the structures of an identifiably Buddhist philosophy of religion, understood as the philosophical exposition and exploration of Buddhist religiosity. I thus theorize what forms a philosophy of religion structured according to Buddhist principles and paradigms might take, address various theoretical and methodological considerations, and survey a range of candidate schemas
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Andrew Loke’s indirect defence of the successive addition argument International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Alex Malpass
In this paper, we consider Andrew Loke’s recent contributions to the successive addition argument. Although he claims to develop the discussion, we conclude that he fails to provide anything that goes beyond the position critiqued by Fellipe Leon. When analysing Loke’s position, we find that his proposals either directly collapse back into those critiqued by Leon, or beg the relevant question at hand
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Moral knowledge and the existence of god International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Noah D. McKay
In this essay, I argue that, all else being equal, theism is more probable than naturalism on the assumption that human beings are able to arrive at a body of moral knowledge that is largely accurate and complete. I put forth this thesis on grounds that, if naturalism is true, the explanation of the content of our moral intuitions terminates either in biological-evolutionary processes or in social
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Adamson, Avicenna and God’s knowledge of particulars International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Amirhossein Zadyousefi
Allegedly, according to Avicenna’s theory of God’s knowledge of particulars, God knows particulars in a universal way or universally. But, it is controversial how we should interpret knowing in a universal way. It seems knowing in a universal way is a black-box in Avicenna’s theological context. However, Peter Adamson in his valuable ‘On Knowledge of Particulars’ has suggested a novel approach to decode
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Metaphors, religious language and linguistic expressibility International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Jacob Hesse
This paper examines different functions of metaphors in religious language. In order to do that it will be analyzed in which ways metaphorical language can be understood as irreducible. First, it will be argued that metaphors communicate more than just propositional contents. They also frame their targets with an imagistic perspective that cannot be reduced to a literal paraphrase. Furthermore, there
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Is it wrong for God to create persons? A response to Monaghan International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-02-10 John M. DePoe
Some have put forward a normative principle that it is immoral and highly disrespectful to create free, rational creatures (like human beings) without their prior consent. (See, for instance, Monaghan in Int J Philos Relig 88(2):181–195, 2020) If true, this principle constitutes a new argument against the existence of God since it is logically impossible to acquire the consent of someone before they
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Resurrecting van Inwagen’s simulacrum: a defense International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Jordan L. Steffaniak
Peter van Inwagen’s short piece on the possibility of resurrection via simulacrum from 1978 has been regularly condemned for its overall implausibility. However, this paper argues that van Inwagen’s thesis has been unfairly criticized and remains a live and salutary option. It begins by summarizing the metaphysics of the simulacrum theory of the resurrection alongside the motivation for such a theory
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“Resuscitating the Common Consent Argument for Theism” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Matthew Braddock
The common consent argument claims that widespread belief in God is good evidence for God’s existence. Though taken seriously throughout the history of philosophy, the argument died in the 1800s. Our philosophy of religion textbooks ignore it. In this paper, we hope to resuscitate it drawing upon the demographics of religious belief, the cognitive science of religion, and contemporary epistemology
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The creation objection against timelessness fails International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Ben Page
In recent years Mullins and Craig have argued that there is a problem for a timeless God creating, with Mullins formulating the argument as follows: (1) If God begins to be related to creation, then God changes. (2) God begins to be related to creation. (3) Therefore, God changes. (4) If God changes, then God is neither immutable nor timeless. (5) Therefore, God is neither immutable nor timeless. In
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Power to forgive: interpersonal forgiveness from an analytical perspective on power International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Tormod Kleiven
This article investigates how to understand interpersonal forgiveness from a Christian perspective through content analysis of research-based literature on forgiveness. The analysis is supported by theory of power approach, and the science of diaconia is used as a lens to describe a Christian perspective. The focus is on how forgiveness can be used and misused when encountering people with traumatic
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Love and Self-Sacrifice: Kierkegaard, Maimonides and the Poor Spouse Predicament International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-12-20 N. Verbin
The purpose of the paper is to explore the presumed link between love and self-sacrifice by exploring the presuppositions through which it is established in Kierkegaard’s thought, and to briefly present a different perspective on those presuppositions. The paper has three parts. I begin with an exploration of the roles of self-sacrifice and the double-danger in Kierkegaard’s thinking about Christian
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Perfecting agents International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Luke Henderson
The focus of this paper is the process of perfecting agents. There are two views that attempt to explain what perfecting an agent looks like, specifically in the context of temporal requirements. One view claims that it is part of Christian orthodoxy that those destined for heaven will be instantaneously changed upon death from imperfect agents to perfect ones. The other view says that it’s impossible
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The demonstrative use of names, and the divine-name co-reference debate International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Berman Chan
For an account of the reference of divine names, I follow Bogardus and Urban (Faith and Philosophy 34(2):176–200, 2017) in advocating in favour of using Gareth Evans’s causal theory of reference, on which a name refers to the dominant source of information in the name’s “dossier”. However, I argue further that information about experiences, in which God is simply the object of acquaintance, can dominate
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Not a body: the catalyst of St. Augustine’s intellectual conversion in the books of the Platonists International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Kyle S. Hodge
In his Confessions, Augustine says that he achieved great intellectual insight from what he cryptically calls the “books of the Platonists.” Prior to reading these books, he was a corporealist and was unable to conceive of incorporeal beings. Because of the insurmountable philosophical problems corporealism caused for the Christian belief he was seeking, Augustine claims that this was the greatest
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Critical notice of Christopher J. Insole: Kant and the Divine: from contemplation to the Moral Law (Oxford University Press, 2020) International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-10-27 James DiCenso
In this Critical Review I mainly discuss two predominant features of Christopher J. Insole’s Kant and the Divine. The first concerns his argument that Kant distances himself philosophically from Christianity. Insole argues against the “theologically affirmative” readers of Kant who want the critical philosophy to affirm traditional Christian beliefs. He rightly focusses on autonomy as fundamental to
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Faith: intention to form theistic beliefs International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Hamid Vahid
Despite the important role of faith in a religious way of life, there is no consensus on how this notion is to be understood. It is nevertheless widely believed that faith is a multifaceted concept possessing affective, evaluative, practical, and cognitive aspects. My goal in this paper is to provide an account of the nature of propositional faith (in religious contexts) that is flexible enough to
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Counting to infinity, successive addition, and the length of the past International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-08-27 Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
The Successive Addition Argument (SAA) is one of the arguments proposed by the defenders of the Kalām Cosmological Argument to support the claim that the universe has a beginning. The main premise of SAA states that a collection formed by successive addition cannot be an actual infinite. This premise is challenged by an argument originally proposed by Fred Dretske. According to Dretske’s Argument (DA)
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A New Moral Argument for the existence of God International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Andrew Ter Ern Loke
I offer a new deductive formulation of the Moral Argument for the existence of God which shows how one might argue for the conclusion that, if one affirms moral realism (traditionally understood as a metaethical view which acknowledges the existence of objective moral truths), one should affirm theism. The new formulation shows that these objective moral truths are either brute facts, or they are metaphysically
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Moral Normativity: Naturalism vs. Theism International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Ferhat Yöney
It is widely assumed that theism is superior to metaphysical naturalism in explaining moral phenomena, especially with regard to the practical aspect of morality. In this article, I will firstly clarify what this practical aspect amounts to and present two challenges against metaphysical naturalism, by John Mackie and Richard Joyce. Then, I will critically engage with two main attempts to argue for
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Grounding, infinite regress, and the thomistic cosmological argument International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Thomas Oberle
A prominent Thomistic cosmological argument maintains that an infinite regress of causes, which exhibits a certain pattern of ontological dependence among its members, would be vicious and so must terminate in a first member. Interestingly, Jonathan Schaffer offers a similar argument in the contemporary grounding literature for the view called metaphysical foundationalism. I consider the striking similarities
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Are cosmological arguments good arguments? International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Bruce R. Reichenbach
Over the course of his work, Graham Oppy developed numerous important criticisms of versions of the cosmological argument. Here I am not concerned with his specific criticisms of cosmological arguments but rather with his claim that cosmological arguments per se are not good arguments, for they provide no persuasive reason for believing the conclusion that God exists and are embedded in theories that
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The evolutionary argument against naturalism: a Wittgensteinian response International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Michael DeVito, Tyler McNabb
In this essay, we put forth a novel solution to Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, utilizing recent work done by Duncan Pritchard on radical skepticism. Key to the success of Plantinga’s argument is the doubting of the reliability of one’s cognitive faculties. We argue (viz. Pritchard and Wittgenstein) that the reliability of one’s cognitive faculties constitutes a hinge commitment
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Maximal possessiveness: A serious flaw in the evil God challenge International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-04-10 Rad Miksa
The Evil God (EG) challenge alleges that because arguments used to support belief in a Good God (GG) can be mirrored by the EG hypothesis, then belief in the former is no more reasonable than belief in the latter. Thus, there is an epistemic symmetry between both hypotheses. This paper argues that one of the EG’s secondary traits, specifically his maximal possessiveness, would render it very likely
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Faith overcoming metaphysics: Gianni Vattimo and Thomas Aquinas on being International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Victor Salas
This paper considers Gianni Vattimo’s rejection of metaphysical conceptions of being in favor of a hermeneutic ontology developed along the lines of ‘weak thought.’ I argue that Vattimo’s critique neglects an abiding pluralism within the very history of metaphysical thought itself; at least some metaphysical conceptions of being in that history do not fall prey to his critique. To establish my claim
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Randy Ramal: On philosophy, intelligibility, and the ordinary: going the bloody hard way International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-03-19 Mikel Burley
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‘Everybody would agree’ – a novel Wittgensteinian approach to philosophy of religion International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Pub Date : 2022-03-05 Hermen Kroesbergen
In this article, a novel Wittgensteinian approach to philosophy of religion is presented which uses autobiographical exposition as a way of clarifying religious concepts. After analyzing what Wittgenstein is trying to accomplish in his philosophical approach, Wittgenstein’s type of grammatical inquiry into concept formation is applied to religion in this very straightforward manner. How a child learns
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