A01=Michael Scott
Alexander Bird
Author_Michael Scott
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Constructive Empiricism
debates on divine independence
Divine Aseity
Divine Command Theories
Effusive Expression
Ens Necessarium
epistemology of faith
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God's Aseity
God's Eye Point
God's Independence
God's Triune Life
God’s Aseity
God’s Eye Point
God’s Independence
God’s Triune Life
Gordon D. Kaufman
Graham Oppy
Gricean Theory
Immersion Solution
John Hare
John Webster
Language Games
Merold Westphal
metaphysics of God
Moral Twin Earth
Nick Trakakis
Peter Lipton
Petitionary Prayer
Phillips's Account
Phillips's View
Phillips’s Account
Phillips’s View
philosophy of religion
Prescriptive Realism
religious language analysis
Religious Language Game
science and theology interface
Semantic Antirealism
Serendipitous Creativity
Simon Blackburn
theological anti-realism
Tv Set
Van Fraassen
Van Fraassen's Constructive Empiricist
Van Fraassen’s Constructive Empiricist
Wittgensteinian School
Product details
- ISBN 9780754652328
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book draws together a distinguished group of philosophers and theologians to present new thinking on realism and religion. The religious realism/antirealism debate concerns the questions of God’s independence from human beings, the nature of religious truth and our access to religious truths. Although both philosophers and theologians have written on these subjects, there has been little sustained investigation into these issues akin to that found in comparable areas of research such as ethics or the philosophy of science. In addition, the absence of any agreed approach to the problem underlines both the need for fresh thought on it and the fruitfulness of this area for further research. The editors’ introduction sets the context of the realism debate, traces connections amongst the essays which follow, and proposes lines for future development and enquiry. The contributors present a variety of contrasting positions on key issues in the religious realism debate and each opens up new and important themes. Gordon Kaufman, Peter Lipton and Simon Blackburn provide the opening chapters and the context for the collection; Alexander Bird, John Hare, Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis, Merold Westphal, and John Webster explore topics that are central to the debate. This volume of original essays will both introduce newcomers to the field and suggest new lines of research for those already familiar with it.
Andrew Moore teaches in the Theology Faculty of the University of Oxford, UK. Michael Scott is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester University, UK
