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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| General Introduction | |
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| Advice on Further Reading | |
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| Philosophy And Religious Belief | |
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| Faith and Reason in Harmony | |
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| The Ethics of Belief | |
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| The Presumption of Atheism | |
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| Religious Belief as 'Properly Basic' | |
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| Evidence and Religious Belief | |
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| Grammar and Religious Belief | |
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| The Groundlessness of Religious Belief | |
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| The Problem Of God-Talk | |
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| How Believers Find God-Talk Puzzling | |
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| God-Talk is Evidently Nonsense | |
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| God-Talk is Not Evidently Nonsense | |
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| 'Death by a Thousand Qualifications' | |
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| One Way of Understanding God-Talk | |
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| Arguments For God's Existence | |
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| Cosmological Arguments | |
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| A Concise Cosmological Argument from the Eleventh Century, Anselm of Canterbury | |
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| A Thirteenth-Century Cosmological Argument | |
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| A Fourteenth-Century Cosmological Argument | |
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| A Seventeenth-Century Cosmological Argument | |
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| A Modern Cosmological Argument | |
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| Objections to Cosmological Arguments | |
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| More Objections to Cosmological Arguments | |
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| Why is a Cause Always Necessary? | |
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| 'Whatever Has a Beginning of Existence Must Have a Cause' | |
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| Can There be an Endless Regress of Causes? | |
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| Design Arguments | |
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| Is the World Ruled by Providence? | |
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| An Especially Famous Design Argument | |
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| We Cannot Know that the World is Designed by God A David Hume | |
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| The Limits of Design Arguments | |
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| God, Regularity, and David Hume | |
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| Can Design Arguments be Defended Today? | |
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| Ontological Arguments | |
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| Anselm Argues that God Cannot be Thought Not to Exist, Anselm of Canterbury | |
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| Gaunilo Argues that Anselm is Wrong, Gaunilo of Marmoutiers | |
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| Anselm Replies to Gaunilo, Anselm of Canterbury | |
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| Descartes Defends an Ontological Argument, Rene Descartes | |
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| Descartes Replies to Critics, Pierre Gassendi, Johannes Caterus, Rene Descartes | |
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| A Classic Repudiation of Ontological Arguments | |
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| A Contemporary Defense of Ontological Arguments | |
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| God and Human Experience | |
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| Why 'Knowing God by Experience' is a Notion Open to Question | |
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| Can We Know God by Experience?, Peter Donovan | |
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| Why Should There Not Be Experience of God? | |
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| What Is God? Omnipotent | |
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| A Modern Discussion of Divine Omnipotence | |
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| Why Think of God as Omnipotent? | |
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| Miracles and Laws of Nature | |
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| Why We Should Disbelieve in Miracles | |
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| Why Ascribe Knowledge to God? | |
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| Omniscience and Human Freedom: a Classic Discussion | |
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| Problems for the Notion of Divine Omniscience | |
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| Why Call God 'Eternal'? | |
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| God is 'Everlasting', not 'Eternal' | |
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| A Modern Defence of Divine Eternity | |
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| A Different Modern Defense of Divine Eternity | |
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