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Bringing together for the first time many key articles by leading philosophers, this volume charts the problems, positions and themes concerning the issue of materialism.
"Contemporary Materialism" brings together the best recent work on
materialism from many of our leading contemporary philosophers.
This is the first comprehensive reader on the subject. The majority
of philosophers and scientists today hold the view that all
phenomena are physical. As a result materialism or 'physicalism' is
now the dominant ontology in a wide range of fields. This book
collects the key investigations into materialism, to reflect the
impact it has had on current thinking in metaphysics, philosophy of
mind and the theory of value. The papers in this collection chart
contemporary problems, positions and themes in materialism. At the
inivitation of the editors, many of the papers have been specially
up-dated for this collection: follow-on pieces written by the
contributors enable them to appraise the original paper and assess
developments since the work was first published. The book's
selections are largley non-technical and accessible to advanced
undergraduates. The editors have provided a useful general
introduction, outlining and contextualising this central system of
thought, as well as a topical bibliography.
The theme of the testimony of the Spirit of God is found in various
Biblical writings, but it has received inadequate attention in
recent theology, Biblical studies, and the philosophy of religion.
This book corrects that inadequacy from an interdisciplinary
perspective, including theology, Biblical studies, philosophy of
religion, ethics, psychology, aesthetics, and apologetics. The book
includes previously unpublished work on the topic of the testimony
of the Spirit in connection with: its role in Biblical literature,
an ontology of the Spirit, conscience and the voice of God, moral
knowledge, religious diversity and spiritual testimony, psychology
and neuroscience, community and language, art and beauty, desire
and gender, apologetics, and the church and discernment. The book
includes a General Introduction that identifies some key
theological and philosophical topics that bear on the topic of the
testimony of the Spirit, and it concludes with a bibliography on
the testimony of the Spirit. The book pursues its topics in a
manner accessible to a wide range of readers from various
disciplines, including college students, educated non-academics,
and researchers.
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The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology contains 19 previously
unpublished chapters by today's leading figures in the field. These
chapters function not only as a survey of key areas, but as
original scholarship on a range of vital topics. Written accessibly
for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional
philosophers, the Handbook explains the main ideas and problems of
contemporary epistemology while avoiding overly technical detail.
What, if anything, does Jesus of Nazareth have to do with
philosophy? This question motivates this collection of new essays
from leading theologians, philosophers, and biblical scholars. Part
I portrays Jesus in his first-century intellectual and historical
context, attending to intellectual influences and contributions and
contemporaneous similar patterns of thought. Part II examines how
Jesus influenced two of the most prominent medieval philosophers.
It considers the seeming conceptual shift from Hebraic categories
of thought to distinctively Greco-Roman ones in later Christian
philosophers. Part III considers the significance of Jesus for some
prominent contemporary philosophical topics, including epistemology
and the meaning of life. The focus is not so much on how
"Christianity" figures in such topics as on how Jesus makes
distinctive contributions to such topics.
If God exists and is perfectly good, God tries to guide people. A
twofold question then arises: How does God (try to) guide people,
and to what end? Problems of divine guidance for humans, according
to this volume, are real and serious, but they are manageable once
we clarify the kind of God at issue. According to the volume's main
thesis, if God has a perfect moral character accompanied by certain
redemptive purposes for humans, the puzzling nature of divine
guidance for them need not preclude the reality of such guidance.
It is, this volume contends, a live option for God to guide or lead
humans toward goodness, even if the leading is not fully
explainable by humans. The voluntary moral attraction of
cooperative humans by divine goodness is central to divine
guidance, and it can illuminate the kind of evidence to be expected
from God.
In this book, Paul K. Moser proposes a new approach to inquiry
about God, including a new discipline of the ethics for inquiry
about God. It is an ethics for human attitudes and relationships as
well as actions in inquiry, and it includes human responsibility
for seeking evidence that involves a moral priority for humans.
Such ethics includes an ongoing test, a trial, for human
receptivity to goodness, including morally good relationships, as a
priority in human inquiry and life. Moser also defends an approach
to the evidence for God that makes sense of the elusiveness and
occasional absence of God in human experience. His book will be of
interest to those interested in inquiry about God, with special
relevance to scholars and advanced students in religious studies,
philosophy, theology, and biblical studies.
For many centuries philosophers have been discussing the problem of
evil - one of the greatest problems of intellectual history. There
are many facets to the problem, and for students and scholars
unfamiliar with the vast literature on the subject, grasping the
main issues can be a daunting task. This Companion provides a
stimulating introduction to the problem of evil. More than an
introduction to the subject, it is a state-of-the-art contribution
to the field which provides critical analyses of and creative
insights on this longstanding problem. Fresh themes in the book
include evil and the meaning of life, beauty and evil, evil and
cosmic evolution, and anti-theodicy. Evil is discussed from the
perspectives of the major monotheistic religions, agnosticism, and
atheism. Written by leading scholars in clear and accessible prose,
this book is an ideal companion for undergraduate and graduate
students, teachers, and scholars across the disciplines.
In this book, Paul K. Moser proposes a new approach to inquiry
about God, including a new discipline of the ethics for inquiry
about God. It is an ethics for human attitudes and relationships as
well as actions in inquiry, and it includes human responsibility
for seeking evidence that involves a moral priority for humans.
Such ethics includes an ongoing test, a trial, for human
receptivity to goodness, including morally good relationships, as a
priority in human inquiry and life. Moser also defends an approach
to the evidence for God that makes sense of the elusiveness and
occasional absence of God in human experience. His book will be of
interest to those interested in inquiry about God, with special
relevance to scholars and advanced students in religious studies,
philosophy, theology, and biblical studies.
If God exists, where can we find adequate evidence for God's
existence? In this book, Paul Moser offers a perspective on the
evidence for God that centers on a morally robust version of theism
that is cognitively resilient. The resulting evidence for God is
not speculative, abstract, or casual. Rather, it is morally and
existentially challenging to humans, as they themselves
responsively and willingly become evidence of God's reality in
receiving and reflecting God's moral character for others. Moser
calls this 'personifying evidence of God,' because it requires the
evidence to be personified in an intentional agent - such as a
human - and thereby to be inherent evidence of an intentional
agent. Contrasting this approach with skepticism, scientific
naturalism, fideism, and natural theology, Moser also grapples with
the potential problems of divine hiddenness, religious diversity,
and vast evil.
Philosophers have traditionally sought objective knowledge: knowledge of things whose existence does not depend on one's conceiving of them. Philosophy After Objectivity uses lessons from debates over objective knowledge to characterize the kinds of reasons pertinent to philosophical and other theoretical views. It argues that we cannot meet skeptics' typical demands for non-question begging support for claims to objective truth, and that, therefore, we should not regard our supporting reasons as resistant to skeptical challenges.
This new edition provides an excellent overview of the field of
epistemology. Revised sections on justification and knowledge and
the Gettier Problem, and new sections on skepticism and naturalized
epistemology, present the most important foundational and recent
work in the theory of knowledge. Organized specifically with
courses in mind, Empirical Knowledge is accessible to upper-level
undergraduates and graduate students.
Since the beginning of philosophy, philosophers have sought
objective knowledge: knowledge of things whose existence does not
depend on one's conceiving of them. Philosophy After Objectivity
uses lessons from debates over objective knowledge to characterize
the kinds of reasons pertinent to philosophical and other
theoretical views. It argues that we cannot meet skeptics' typical
demands for non-question begging support for claims to objective
truth, and that therefore we should not regard our supporting
reasons as resistant to skeptical challenges. One key lesson in
this volume is that constructive, explanatory approach to
philosophy must change the subject from skeptic-resistant reasons
to perspectival reasons arising from variable semantic commitments
and instrumental, purpose-relative considerations. The book lays
foundations for such a reorientation of philosophy creating
Fundamental methodological issues in ontology, epistemology, the
theory of meaning, the philosophy of mind, and the theory of
practical rationality. Philosophy After Objectivity explains how
certain perennial debates in philosophy rest not on genuine
disagreement, but on conceptual diversity: talk about different
matters. The book shows how acknowledgment of conceptual diversity
can resolve a range of traditional disputes in philosophy, and also
explains why philosophers need not anchor their discipline in the
physicalism of the natural sciences.
Twenty-one previously published selections concerned with rational action are listed under three main categories: individual decision theory; game theory and group decision-making; reasons, desires and intentionality.
For centuries, theologians and philosophers, among others, have
examined the nature of religious experience. Students and scholars
unfamiliar with the vast literature face a daunting task in
grasping the main issues surrounding the topic of religious
experience. The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience offers
an original introduction to its topic. Going beyond an
introduction, it is a state-of-the-art overview of the topic, with
critical analyses of and creative insights into its subject.
Religious experience is discussed from various interdisciplinary
perspectives, from religious perspectives inside and outside
traditional monotheistic religions, and from various topical
perspectives. Written by leading scholars in clear and accessible
prose, this book is an ideal resource for undergraduate and
graduate students, teachers, and scholars across many disciplines.
This book explores the role of divine severity in the character and
wisdom of God, and the flux and difficulties of human life in
relation to divine salvation. Much has been written on problems of
evil, but the matter of divine severity has received relatively
little attention. Paul K. Moser discusses the function of
philosophy, evidence and miracles in approaching God. He argues
that if God's aim is to extend without coercion His lasting life to
humans, then commitment to that goal could manifest itself in
making human life severe, for the sake of encouraging humans to
enter into that cooperative good life. In this scenario, divine
agape is conferred as free gift, but the human reception of it
includes stress and struggle in the face of conflicting powers and
priorities. Moser's work will be of great interest to students of
the philosophy of religion, and theology.
If God exists, where can we find adequate evidence for God's
existence? In this book, Paul Moser offers a perspective on the
evidence for God that centers on a morally robust version of theism
that is cognitively resilient. The resulting evidence for God is
not speculative, abstract, or casual. Rather, it is morally and
existentially challenging to humans, as they themselves
responsively and willingly become evidence of God's reality in
receiving and reflecting God's moral character for others. Moser
calls this 'personifying evidence of God,' because it requires the
evidence to be personified in an intentional agent - such as a
human - and thereby to be inherent evidence of an intentional
agent. Contrasting this approach with skepticism, scientific
naturalism, fideism, and natural theology, Moser also grapples with
the potential problems of divine hiddenness, religious diversity,
and vast evil.
Three questions motivate this book s account of evidence for the
existence of God. First, if God s existence is hidden, why suppose
He exists at all? Second, if God exists, why is He hidden,
particularly if God seeks to communicate with people? Third, what
are the implications of divine hiddenness for philosophy, theology,
and religion s supposed knowledge of God? This book answers these
questions on the basis of a new account of evidence and knowledge
of divine reality that challenges skepticism about God s existence.
The central thesis is that we should expect evidence of divine
reality to be purposively available to humans, that is, available
only in a manner suitable to divine purposes in self-revelation.
This lesson generates a seismic shift in our understanding of
evidence and knowledge of divine reality. The result is a needed
reorienting of religious epistemology to accommodate the character
and purposes of an authoritative, perfectly loving God.
What, if anything, does Jesus of Nazareth have to do with
philosophy? This question motivates this collection of new essays
from leading theologians, philosophers, and biblical scholars. Part
I portrays Jesus in his first-century intellectual and historical
context, attending to intellectual influences and contributions and
contemporaneous similar patterns of thought. Part II examines how
Jesus influenced two of the most prominent medieval philosophers.
It considers the seeming conceptual shift from Hebraic categories
of thought to distinctively Greco-Roman ones in later Christian
philosophers. Part III considers the significance of Jesus for some
prominent contemporary philosophical topics, including epistemology
and the meaning of life. The focus is not so much on how
Christianity figures in such topics as on how Jesus makes
distinctive contributions to such topics.
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