God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique

Publisher	University of Ottawa Press
Publication Year	1999
Author(s)	William Sweet

ISBN: 9780776604992

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Given the challenge of anti-realism, anti-foundationalism, and post-modernism, is rational argument concerning religious belief still possible? This collection provides a broad range of perspective on the contemporary discussion of the place of argument in philosophical discussion on God and, more generally on religious belief.

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William Sweet

William Sweet is Associate Professer of Philosophy at St. Francis Xavier University and author of Idealism and Rights (1997). He has edited several collections of scholarly essays, including La philosophie de la

Chapter	Contributors	Pages	Year	Price
God as Object of Philosophical Argument Introduction View	William Sweet	14	1999	$1.68
God and Argument: Strong and Weak Theories of Existence In discussing the relation of ‘God and Argument,’ it is best to begin with a few fundamentals. So I will offer here some reflections on the philosophical treatment of existence and … View	James Bradley	9	1999	$1.08
On Being Certain About thé Existence of God Proofs far less elaborate than demonstrations can be enough for theoretical certainty, though even such proofs (beyond reasonable doubt, by clear and convincing evidence or prepondérance of … View	James F. Ross	11	1999	$1.32
Pour une réinterprétation phénoménologique de la question de l'existence de Dieu Il se trouve que la pertinence de la métaphysique est questionnée de façon radicale de toutes parts. Cette interrogation, voire cette contestation, qui touche à la … View	Louis Perron	25	1999	$3.00
God, Ethos, Ways Metaphysics is not just the philosophical discipline that examines and evaluates arguments for their rational cogency; not just the philosophical interprétation of the ethos as reconfigured … View	William Desmond	19	1999	$2.28
Alvin Plantinga's Slip All inquiry, they say, is carried on within the framework of a presupposed set of principles that determine, for instance, what is to count as being reasonable grounds for what. Therefore, they … View	D. Goldstick	9	1999	$1.08
Anselm's Proof and Some Problems of Meaning and Reference What exists necessarily in the strongest sense of necessarily is surely what could not under any circumstances fail to exist. And such an entity must be compatible with anything else which could … View	Leslie Armour	17	1999	$2.04
St. Thomas and thé Existence of God: Owens vs Gilson, and Beyond In this paper I wish to present and explore one disagreement, that between Joseph Owens and Etienne Gilson. Here we have two philosophers who worked closely together in Toronto, who surely agree … View	Lawrence Derwan	27	1999	$3.24
The Argument from Contingency 'Then' and 'Now' The paper has two rather loosely connected parts: the first part reflects on the significance of the argument from contingency in the Five Ways of St Thomas Aquinas and raises the question of … View	Peter Harris	9	1999	$1.08
Le Dieu indémontrable et indubitable de Kant L’existence de Dieu est aussi indubitable qu’elle est indémontable. Elle est indémontrable parce qu’elle est indubitable. View	Bernard Vinaty	21	1999	$2.52
Kant's Attack on thé Cosmological Argument In his book Approaches to God Jacques Maintain states in passing that Kant’s attack on thé ontological argument is solid, but that his réfutation of cosmological arguments is not. View	J.L.A. West	13	1999	$1.56
Evidentialism at its Origins and Anglo-American Philosophy of Religion There is no doubt that proofs for the existence of God are no longer fashionable amongst contemporary philosophers. Many people attribute the death of such proofs to the critique given by … View	William Sweet	25	1999	$3.00
Une preuve de l'existence de Dieu chez Whitehead? L’argumentation philosophique destinée à prouver l’existence de Dieu n’est pas pratique courante dans les milieux whiteheadiens. Tant chez les Process Theologians que … View	Denis Hurtubise	15	1999	$1.80
Theism and Science An important tradition in western philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to … View	John Haldane	20	1999	$2.40
Miracles as Evidence for God Far from regarding miracles as evidentially significant, professional philosophera and theologians in the last two centuries have tended to view miracles as obstacles to belief. View	Robert Larmer	11	1999	$1.32
The Design Connection The intention of this paper is to argue that an analysis of the concept of design will provide grounds to refute any connection between this idea and arguments for the existence of God. View	Elizabeth Trott	11	1999	$1.32

God and Argument – Dieu et l’argumentation philosophique

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