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Richard Swinburne

Auteur van Is There a God?

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Richard Swinburne is a Fellow of the British Academy and was Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Oxford University from 1985 until 2002.

Werken van Richard Swinburne

Is There a God? (1996) 320 exemplaren
Het bestaan van God (1979) 298 exemplaren
The Coherence of Theism (1977) 152 exemplaren
Faith and Reason (1981) 116 exemplaren
Was Jesus God? (2008) 105 exemplaren
The Evolution of the Soul (1986) 86 exemplaren
The Christian God (1994) 71 exemplaren
The Resurrection of God Incarnate (2003) 62 exemplaren
Justification of Induction (1974) 39 exemplaren
Epistemic Justification (2001) 32 exemplaren
Mind, Brain, and Free Will (2013) 32 exemplaren
Miracles (Philosophical Topics) (1989) 29 exemplaren

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1934-12-26
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male
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A very short introduction to the topics Swinburne has displayed throughout his career.
 
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Mandrilillo99 | 3 andere besprekingen | Jul 24, 2022 |
This is the final volume of the trilogy on philosophical theology. Swinburne reaches the conclusion that the kind of faith necessary for religion involves both trust and belief, but a belief that supposes that a certain creed is more likely to be true than the creed of any rival religion. However, it is not a trivial book, and it faces direct questions under bayesian's probability, which is something correlated with analytic current inside philosophy.
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Mandrilillo99 | Jul 24, 2022 |
Perhaps I went into this book with the wrong expectations, but I found it disappointing. There are really interesting and thought provoking discussions along the way; however, as far as giving an evolutionary account of the soul in animals, Swinburne tosses his hands up and says “it’s a mystery!”. Fine and well if you’re me; not fine and well if you’re writing a book titled “The Evolution of the Soul”. Secondly, where Swinburne does attempt to describe the evolutionary development of the mental life (thought, sensation, belief, desire, and purpose), it’s rife with “well, obviously natural selection would select for such-and-so” with little justification. Moreover, these assumptions have been seriously challenged by Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism and the subsequent discussion. (To be fair, this book is from 1986 and Plantinga’s EAAN didn’t get a serious treatment until 2002). Last, Swinburne’s argument for why souls can persist past death of the body is “lol God”. True, but ultimately unsatisfying.

“Evolution of the Soul” is interesting, but disappoints where it counts. There’s probably better contemporary literature on the mind-body problem.

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ZacharyTLawson | Jul 10, 2019 |
This is the best defense of theism I've read. I'm not converted, but Swinburne is certainly more compelling than, say, William Lane Craig.
 
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1,713
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