Atheism And Theism - Blackwell - Philosophy

188 J.J. Haldane As regards the trial by Pilate, there is an entirely adequate explanation given in scripture. Jesus was seen, a ...

Reply to Smart 189 New Testament scripture reports the Incarnation of the Son of God, the second person of the Trinity, is not s ...

190 J.J. Haldane The intellect receives from things, so it is in some way changed by them and measured by them. Hence it is clea ...

Reply to Smart 191 One step enough. Yet the ambition of philosophy has traditionally been to comprehend the whole. How then are ...

192 J.J. Haldane Davidsonian approach but taken in more hermeneutical and Aristotelian direc- tions is offered by John McDowell ...

Reply to Smart 193 15 In a letter to the Emperor Caligula (Embassy to Gaius, 302) Philo complains of Pilate’s many injustices, a ...

Afterword J.J.C. Smart and J.J. Haldane In our debate we argue on opposite sides of the issue of atheism and theism. For a philo ...

consciousness on the cross before he died, even though we could never know it one way or the other. Putnam’s anti-realism has al ...

The deployment of this fact in reply to Putnam and others needs to be adapted according to variations in the way in which episte ...

Of course the identification and re-identification of substances is conception- dependent but it does not follow from this that ...

198 J.J.C. Smart 5 Further Reflections on Atheism for the Second Edition J.J.C. Smart 1 Preliminary It was suggested that these ...

Further Reflections on Atheism 199 further discussion of whether there is an intelligible concept of necessity which will help t ...

200 J.J.C. Smart so-called quantifier ‘there is a’. Anselm needs a stronger and more suspect notion of modality such as is furni ...

Further Reflections on Atheism 201 there is no first moment or last moment of time. However, Anselm probably would not have cons ...

202 J.J.C. Smart the restricted domain of classical mechanics, both the actual world and possible worlds would be lines in phase ...

Further Reflections on Atheism 203 This is a clever argument. The supposition that God is maximally great implies that God exist ...

204 J.J.C. Smart Notice that if we restrict the term ‘logic’ to quantifiers ‘every’ and ‘some’ together with variables ‘x’, ‘y’, ...

Further Reflections on Atheism 205 more detail at Findlay’s argument. This will lead on to a further look at the notions of nece ...

206 J.J.C. Smart of necessity is that of ‘logical necessity’. According to Findlay, contemporary philosophical views that all pr ...

Further Reflections on Atheism 207 empty of information about reality, then it would seem that no analytic sentence can tell us ...