Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 10

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 10
Author: Lara Buchak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2022-02-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0192677543

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it publishes exemplary papers in any area of philosophy of religion.

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 10

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 10
Author: Lara Buchak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2022-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192862979

"Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion' is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century."-- Provided by publisher.

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 5

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 5
Author: Jonathan Kvanvig
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Philosophy o
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198704771

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it publishes exemplary papers in any area of philosophy of religion.

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion
Author: Jonathan Kvanvig
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2008-05-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199542651

This volume offers a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in this longstanding area of philosophy, which has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. The essays are broad-ranging, and as a whole are not specific to any particular creed.

Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 10

Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 10
Author: David Sobel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2024-04-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198909489

This is the tenth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s, political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory. OSPP aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in political philosophy and these closely related subfields.

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Volume 7

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Volume 7
Author: Jonathan Kvanvig
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0198757719

This volume offers a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in this longstanding area of philosophy, which has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. The essays are broad-ranging, and as a whole are not specific to any particular creed.

Philosophy of Religion: The Basics

Philosophy of Religion: The Basics
Author: Samuel Lebens
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2022-09-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000643948

This book introduces students and other interested readers to the philosophy of religion—a vibrant and growing field of academic philosophy. Readers will be guided through an exploration of classic and contemporary arguments for and against theism. In addition to this crucial, but standard fare, this book looks to probe deeper into the nature and value (or dis-value) of religion itself. Philosophy of religion is becoming more diverse, both in terms of the religious traditions it examines, and the issues that it addresses. This book reflects that fact, engaging with religious traditions from Quakerism to Jainism. Questions and topics covered include: What is religion? What philosophical problems arise for the practices of prayer, worship, and meditation? How might multiple religions co-exist in peace? If there’s a God, would it be the sort of thing that language could describe? When and how might it be rational to wager that a particular religion is true? With a glossary of key terms and suggestions for further reading, Philosophy of Religion: The Basics is an ideal starting point for anyone seeking a lively and accessible foray into the study of religion or philosophy.

Faith, Flourishing, and Agnosticism

Faith, Flourishing, and Agnosticism
Author: T. Ryan Byerly
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2023-11-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0192689592

Faith, Flourishing, and Agnosticism uses conceptual and empirical methods to argue that the many individuals who have ambiguous evidence for God can grow in virtue and attain greater flourishing by engaging in practices of faith toward God. The book develops a way of thinking about God, called minimal theism. It argues that a sizeable number of people have ambiguous evidence for God, and it provides support for arguments for agnosticism through an evaluation of theistic and atheistic arguments and higher-order evidence about God. It discusses what kind of cognitive commitments toward God are required to engage in faith practices such as thanking or praising God, and develops unique arguments that these can be supplied by beliefs or non-doxastic assumptions but not other states. Four pathways whereby individuals with ambiguous evidence for God can grow in virtue through such faith practices are identified. First, they can grow in general virtuous tendencies to give other people the benefit of the doubt by giving God the benefit of the doubt. Second, they can indirectly grow in a broad range of virtues by experiencing better mental health as a consequence of accepting God's love. Third, they can make skilled use of the worldview of minimal theism to cultivate transformative experiences of awe and connectedness, thereby supporting the specific virtue of spiritual excellence. Finally, by this same process, they can reap further downstream benefits in character growth, independently of whether spiritual excellence is virtuous.

Personal Ontology

Personal Ontology
Author: Andrew Brenner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2024-03-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1009367072

Presents the main competing accounts of personal ontology: that we are either souls, or we are composite physical objects of some sort.

Infinity, Causation, and Paradox

Infinity, Causation, and Paradox
Author: Alexander R. Pruss
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-07-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192538284

Infinity is paradoxical in many ways. Some paradoxes involve deterministic supertasks, such as Thomson's Lamp, where a switch is toggled an infinite number of times over a finite period of time, or the Grim Reaper, where it seems that infinitely many reapers can produce a result without doing anything. Others involve infinite lotteries. If you get two tickets from an infinite fair lottery where tickets are numbered from 1, no matter what number you saw on the first ticket, it is almost certain that the other ticket has a bigger number on it. And others center on paradoxical results in decision theory, such as the surprising observation that if you perform a sequence of fair coin flips that goes infinitely far back into the past but only finitely into the future, you can leverage information about past coin flips to predict future ones with only finitely many mistakes. Alexander R. Pruss examines this seemingly large family of paradoxes in Infinity, Causation and Paradox. He establishes that these paradoxes and numerous others all have a common structure: their most natural embodiment involves an infinite number of items causally impinging on a single output. These paradoxes, he argues, can all be resolved by embracing 'causal finitism', the view that it is impossible for a single output to have an infinite causal history. Throughout the book, Pruss exposits such paradoxes, defends causal finitism at length, and considers connections with the philosophy of physics (where causal finitism favors but does not require discretist theories of space and time) and the philosophy of religion (with a cosmological argument for a first cause).