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The philosophy of miracles /
Philosophers who wish to argue for the rationality of belief in God frequently employ a 'god-of-the-gaps' strategy. This strategy consists in trying to find a phenomenon that cannot be explained by natural science, and insisting that it can be explained only by reference to the activity of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Conceptions of the miraculous
- Supernaturalistic conceptions of the miraculous
- Teleology and the miraculous
- Contextual criteria for the miraculous
- Miracles and the laws of nature
- The logical impossibility of a violation
- Violations as nonrepeatable counterinstances to natural law
- Objection #1: nonrepeatable counterinstances as falsifying a law
- Objection #2: identifying nonrepeatable counterinstances
- Objection #3: counterinstance as anomaly
- A supernaturalistic conception of natural law
- Identifying supernatural intrusions : an objection
- The concept of supernatural cause as empty
- A supernaturalistic response
- Miracles and causes
- What is a supernatural cause?
- Nature as causally open
- Trans-domain laws
- Dualism and the supernatural
- Supernatural explanation
- Nowell-Smith and predictive expansion
- Do explanations always rely on laws?
- Paul Dietl's response to Nowell-Smith's challenge
- Analysis of Dietl's response
- Problems with Dietl's response
- Divine agency in religious practice
- Miracle as basic action
- Must 'miracle' be conceived teleologically?
- Divine agency without supernatural causation
- Miracles and interaction
- Miracles and natural causes
- Miracle, mystery, and the God-of-the-gaps
- Miracle and divine agency
- The world as God's body
- Basic mental acts
- Psychokinesis as basic act
- Non-basic divine agency
- Divine agency and non-determined processes
- The causal joint
- Locating divine basic actions : how far down should we go?
- Divine manipulation of microprocesses : an alternative
- Arguments for divine basic actions at the macro level
- Quantum gaps and special divine agency
- A context for miracles
- Thankability and the miraculous
- Thankability and the subjective : an objection
- Due thankability
- Due thankability and apologetic
- Miracle, coincidence, and counterfactual
- Counterfactuals and basic actions.