Atheism And Theism - Blackwell - Philosophy

248 J.J. Haldane redeem innocent suffering. Should our yearnings be without the possibility of completion then we are indeed wit ...

Further Reflections on Theism 249 of Amino Acids under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions’,Science, 117, 1953) pp. 528 – 9. 3 S ...

250 J.J. Haldane 1991); and The Seas of Language and Other Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). 18 Berkeley, Principl ...

Bibliography 251 Bibliography This bibliography overlaps at a few points with the references in the text and notes. Its purpose ...

252 Bibliography Additional bibliographical items (2nd edition): Philip L. Quinn and Charles Taliaferro (eds), A Companion to Ph ...

Bibliography 253 Additional sources of historical and contemporary material are the following anthologies: Baruch A. Brody (ed.) ...

254 Bibliography general, Swinburne’s approach follows ‘modern’ – Cartesian and post-Cartesian – philosophy rather than the Aris ...

Bibliography 255 The problem of evil has been widely discussed and there are chapters on it in the various introductions mention ...

256 Bibliography study. A general, non-philosophical introduction to the issues is provided by Christopher Tuckett,Reading the N ...

Bibliography 257 for theism, in which he finds difficulties for neo-Darwinism as applied to the biochemistry of the cell, have b ...

258 Index Index abstractionism, 102–3, 105, 228, 230 action, aimed to good, 145– 6, 167 caused by desire?, 63 –4 actionsversus m ...

Index 259 argument, from contingency, 32–43, 86 from religious experience, 43–7 propter quid, 127–8 quia, 127–30, 133 to best ex ...

260 Index causation, 86, 135, 144 backwards, 163 cause and explanation, 126 cause, efficient, 86–7, 99–100, 118, 123, 125–6, 135 ...

Index 261 Descartes, R., 8, 23–4, 33, 198–200, 234, 242 descriptions, theory of, 33–4 design, appearance of, 21–7, 83, 85 design ...

262 Index explanation, 2, 17–18, 163 as redescription, 101 complete, 12 contextual, 17–18, 163, 167, 173 need for, 1–2 not causa ...

Index 263 existence of knowable by reason, 4, 47, 79–80, 127–8, 134–5, 147–8, 189, 191, 244 existence of not logically necessary ...

264 Index intensionality, 34–5, 156–7, 172, 174 –5, 229–30, 247 as attitudes to sentences, 34–5, 156–7, 172, 174 intentionality, ...

Index 265 methodology, 4, 6–7, 20, 69, 80–3, 94 –5, 151–3, 155, 162, 171–3, 182, 194, 216 microstructures, 12, 88, 90, 110, 144, ...

266 Index numinous, evolutionary explanation of, 45 occasionalism, 146 Ockham’s razor, 19, 24, 155, 160, 162–3, 167, 172, 217 on ...

Index 267 primordial soup, 152–3, 179, 214 –15, 224 –5 principle of sufficient reason, 122–6 principles self-evident in themselv ...