Atheism And Theism - Blackwell - Philosophy

(National Geographic (Little) Kids) #1

  • 2 Atheism and Theism

    • 1 Introduction

    • 2 Theism and Science

    • 3 Some Varieties of Explanation

    • 4 ‘Old’ Teleology

    • 5 ‘New’ Teleology

    • 6 The Cause of Things

    • 7 God and the World

    • 8 God, Good and Evil

    • 9 Liberty and Providence

    • 10 Theism – Philosophical and Religious



  • 3 Reply to Haldane

    • 1 Methodology J.J.C. Smart

    • 2 Representation and Intentionality

    • 3 Consciousness

    • 4 Chicken and Egg

    • 5 Eternity and Sempiternity

    • 6 Theism and the Problem of Evil



  • 4 Reply to Smart

    • 1 Methodology J.J. Haldane

    • 2 The Existence of God

    • 3 Metaphysical Matters

    • 4 Reason, Faith and Revelation

    • 5 A Religious Conclusion

    • Afterword



  • 5 Further Reflections on Atheism for the Second Edition J.J.C. Smart and J.J. Haldane

    • 1 Preliminary J.J.C. Smart

    • 2 Anselm’s Argument

    • 3 Plantinga’s Argument

    • 4 A Putative a priori Disproof of the Existence of God

    • 5 Further Reflections on Necessity and Theism

    • 6 The Fine-Tuning Argument Again

    • 7 The Fine-Tuning Argument: Bayesian Considerations

    • 8 Biological Considerations

    • 9 A Possible Olive Branch (or maybe Twig) to the Theist

    • 10 Can Theists and Atheists Come to Agree?



  • 6 Further Reflections on Theism for the Second Edition

    • 1 Preliminary J.J. Haldane

    • 2 Philosophy and Religion, and Philosophy of Religion

    • 3 The Emergence of Life and the Origins of Reproduction

    • 4 The Prime Thinker

    • 5 Realism, Idealism, Anti-Realism and Theism

    • 6 The Nature of God

    • 7 God, Evil, and Hope



  • Bibliography

  • Index

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