Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion Since the Seventeenth CenturyCambridge University Press, 2005 M02 28 - 457 pages Taliaferro has written a dynamic narrative history of philosophical reflection on religion from the 17th century to the present, with an emphasis on shifting views of faith and the nature of evidence. The book begins with the movement called Cambridge Platonism, which formed a bridge between the ancient and medieval worlds and early modern philosophy. While the book provides an overview of different movements in philosophy, it also offers a detailed exposition and reflection on key arguments, and the scope is broad from Descartes to contemporary feminist philosophy of religion. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Sovereignty of the Good in SeventeenthCentury Philosophy of Religion | 11 |
Platonism Christianity and Some Divine Arguments | 15 |
Gods Light | 26 |
The Virtues of Human Nature | 29 |
The Virtues of Gods Presence | 39 |
The Practice of Philosophy of Religion | 42 |
Three Challenges | 45 |
Volcanic Philosophy of Religion | 219 |
Kant on Three Classic Theistic Arguments | 223 |
Reason and Contradictions | 231 |
Moral Faith | 234 |
A Mysterious Grace | 239 |
Cosmopolitanism and Religion | 241 |
Reason and Romance | 244 |
6 Religion and the Philosophical Gods and Giants | 248 |
Doorways to Modern and Contemporary Philosophy | 55 |
Cartesian Philosophy of Religion | 57 |
Descartes Then and Now | 58 |
Cartesian Nature and Ambition | 61 |
Cartesian Methodology | 68 |
A Substantial Self | 71 |
Theistic Arguments | 75 |
Theism and Trust | 79 |
Dualist Arguments | 84 |
God and the World | 95 |
Conways Coherence | 100 |
The Fragility of Philosophy of Religion | 102 |
Measure for Measure | 106 |
The Ascendancy of Rules of Evidence in Early Modern Philosophy of Religion | 110 |
Hobbess Challenge | 113 |
Lockean Strictures and Toleration | 120 |
The Mind of God in AngloAmerican Idealism | 129 |
Early American Philosophy of Religion | 135 |
The Good and the Evident | 138 |
Spinozas AntiSupernaturalism | 150 |
Probability as the Guide to a Supernatural Life | 154 |
The Battle of the Books | 157 |
Humean Philosophy of Religion | 160 |
Humes World and Self | 163 |
Against the Design Argument | 168 |
A Cosmological Argument | 176 |
Design Again | 183 |
History and Miracles in the Realm of Nature | 194 |
Annihilation and Suicide | 200 |
An Ideal Observer | 204 |
The Virtues of Inquiry | 212 |
Kantian Philosophy of Religion | 215 |
Naturalism in Philosophy of Religion | 251 |
Biology and Theology | 257 |
Sociological Political Psychological Naturalism | 262 |
Hegelian Idealism | 268 |
Idealism after Hegel | 275 |
Pragmatism in Philosophy of Religion | 283 |
Continental and Feminist Philosophy of Religion | 291 |
Subjectivity in Philosophy of Religion | 294 |
Genealogical Philosophy of Religion | 299 |
Heidegger Sartre Camus Beauvoir | 304 |
Weil Buber Levinas Marcel | 312 |
Gadamer Ricoeur Derrida Foucault | 318 |
Feminist Philosophy of Religion | 328 |
Five Major Moves | 337 |
Positivism and Philosophy of Religion | 339 |
Contra Positivism | 348 |
Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion | 361 |
On the Verge of a Renaissance of Philosophy of Religion | 368 |
Cognition and Tradition | 370 |
Pluralistic Philosophy of Religion | 381 |
Religions Evidence and Legitimacy | 392 |
The Academy | 394 |
Science and Religion | 395 |
Back to the Beginning | 398 |
A Case Study | 410 |
Philosophy of Religion and Friendship | 423 |
Philosophy of Religion at Large | 425 |
A Guide to Further Study | 431 |
Select Contemporary Philosophers | 435 |
Select Bibliography | 439 |
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