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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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