God, Truth, and other Enigmas
God, Truth, and other Enigmas

Author: Miroslaw Szatkowski

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 3110418991

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The book God, Truth, and other Enigmas is a collection of eighteen essays that fall under four headings: (God's) Existence/Non-Existence, Omniscience, Truth, and Metaphysical Enigmas. The essays vary widely in topic and tone. They provide the reader with an overview of contemporary philosophical approaches to the subjects that are indicated in the title of the book.

Truth and Other Enigmas
Truth and Other Enigmas

Author: Michael Dummett

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780674910768

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A collection of all but two of the author's philosophical essays and lectures originally published or presented before August 1976.

God, Time, Infinity
God, Time, Infinity

Author: Mirosław Szatkowski

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-05-07

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 3110594161

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The issues of the nature and existence of God, time and infinity, respectively, and how they relate to each other, are some of the most complicated problems of metaphysics.This volume presents contributions of thirteen internationally renowned scholars who deal with various aspects of these complex issues. The contributions were presented and discussed during the international conference: God, Time, Infinity held in Warsaw, September 22—24, 2015.

Modal Epistemology After Rationalism
Modal Epistemology After Rationalism

Author: Bob Fischer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-09

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 3319443097

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This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys the field and provides a brief overview of the work, which progresses from empirically-sensitive rationalist accounts to fully empiricist accounts of modal knowledge. Early chapters focus on challenges to rationalist theories, essence-based approaches to modal knowledge, and the prospects for naturalizing modal epistemology. The middle chapters present positive accounts that reject rationalism, but which stop short of advocating exclusive appeal to empirical sources of modal knowledge. The final chapters mark a transition toward exclusive reliance on empirical sources of modal knowledge. They explore ways of making similarity-based, analogical, inductive, and abductive arguments for modal claims based on empirical information. Modal epistemology is coming into its own as a field, and this book has the potential to anchor a new research agenda.

The Problem of God in Modern Thought
The Problem of God in Modern Thought

Author: Philip Clayton

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 9780802838858

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It is widely believed that modern philosophers have dismissed the idea of God and opted instead for a secular humanism. Challenging these stereotypes through a careful study of major philosophical texts written since the Enlightenment, Philip Clayton shows how the main thinkers of the modern period have continued to wrestle with the problem of God and to make proposals for understanding the divine. Following up on his award-winning book God and Contemporary Science, Clayton here explores the constructive resources that modern thought offers to those struggling with the notion of God as "infinite" and "perfect." He finds in the narrative of modern thought about God strong support for panentheism, the new theological movement that maintains the transcendence of God while denying the separation of God and the world.

The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology
The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology

Author: Jonathan Fuqua

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-08-31

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1316517713

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The first handbook on the topic of religious epistemology introduces and discusses topics fundamental to the epistemology of religious belief.

Skepticism
Skepticism

Author: G. Anthony Bruno

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1351976273

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Skepticism is one of the most enduring and profound of philosophical problems. With its roots in Plato and the Sceptics to Descartes, Hume, Kant and Wittgenstein, skepticism presents a challenge that every philosopher must reckon with. In this outstanding collection philosophers engage with skepticism in five clear sections: the philosophical history of skepticism in Greek, Cartesian and Kantian thought; the nature and limits of certainty; the possibility of knowledge and related problems such as perception and the debates between objective knowledge and constructivism; the transcendental method as a response to skepticism and the challenge of naturalism; overcoming the skeptical challenge. Skepticism: Historical and Contemporary Inquiries is essential reading for students and scholars in epistemology and the history of philosophy and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as religion and sociology.

Epistemic Angst
Epistemic Angst

Author: Duncan Pritchard

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0691183430

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Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism—the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us. Duncan Pritchard argues that the key to resolving this puzzle is to realize that it is composed of two logically distinct problems, each requiring its own solution. He then puts forward solutions to both problems. To that end, he offers a new reading of Wittgenstein's account of the structure of rational evaluation and demonstrates how this provides an elegant solution to one aspect of the skeptical problem. Pritchard also revisits the epistemological disjunctivist proposal that he developed in previous work and shows how it can effectively handle the other aspect of the problem. Finally, he argues that these two antiskeptical positions, while superficially in tension with each other, are not only compatible but also mutually supporting. The result is a comprehensive and distinctive resolution to the problem of radical skepticism, one that challenges many assumptions in contemporary epistemology.

Ontology of Theistic Beliefs
Ontology of Theistic Beliefs

Author: Mirosław Szatkowski

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-08-21

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 3110566516

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This volume aims to apply ontological theories and arguments to theistic beliefs and theistic world views. After an introduction that traces out the complexity of the field by categorizing the multifaceted definitions of ontology and (theistic) believing, thirteen articles discuss specific aspects of the two terms as well as their interaction. With contributions by Chris Daly, Gabriele De Anna, Michał Głowala, Christian Kanzian, Daniel Linford, Jason Megill, Uwe Meixner, Elisa Paganini, Eleonore Stump, Mirosław Szatkowski, William F. Vallicella and Peter van Inwagen.