Atheism And Theism - Blackwell - Philosophy

168 J.J.C. Smart from within’ in a sense different from that in which neurophysiological events are thought of by neurophysiolog ...

Reply to Haldane 169 7 Earlier (see p. 13) I described teleological talk in biology as ‘as if ’ talk. Equally one might, as I ha ...

170 J.J.C. Smart 22 The evolution of the conceptual is partly cultural, depending on the evolution of language. Having the conce ...

Reply to Smart 171 4 Reply to Smart J.J. Haldane 1 Methodology Jack Smart’s challenge to theism is direct and systematic. Again ...

172 J.J. Haldane For example, in response to my claim that naturalism cannot account for conceptual thought, Smart seeks to reso ...

Reply to Smart 173 philosophical physicalism turns out to have its own non-material objects, namely space–time points, numbers a ...

174 J.J. Haldane archaeology aims to understand human history and not just to chart the causal impact of those long dead, it req ...

Reply to Smart 175 metaphysical answer involves acknowledging the existence of intensional entities concepts and senses – which ...

176 J.J. Haldane (sections 4 and 5) and cosmological(section 6). Contemporary philosophical theists who find merit in reasoning ...

Reply to Smart 177 A The general scheme of arguments from world to God I Cosmological To a cause of existence from contingency ( ...

178 J.J. Haldane of electrons and protons’ (chapter 3, p. 153). The reductionism remains, as does my objection that it is unwarr ...

Reply to Smart 179 of self-replication is novel and not explicable by reference to lower-level entities and properties. Standard ...

180 J.J. Haldane and defence of Aquinas’s first three ways, and primarily of the first and second of them. In passing, let me st ...

Reply to Smart 181 Recall that I rejected the view favoured by Smart, and championed by Davidson,^7 that action is behaviour cau ...

182 J.J. Haldane actualized one may well look for a prior event that was the occasion for this, but in doing so it will generall ...

Reply to Smart 183 was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it... The true ligh ...

184 J.J. Haldane by shadow but its reality is disclosed by the word of God which is itself truth. Fourth, each writer invokes in ...

Reply to Smart 185 makes some general comments about the character of the Gospels and illus- trates the possibility of naturalis ...

186 J.J. Haldane earliest Gospel is dated ‘many years after the crucifixion’, but the thing to be struck by is how close these d ...

Reply to Smart 187 God and a covenant between him and the Jews his chosen people. It relates in turn the birth of Jesus, the tea ...