The Philosophy of Miracles by David Corner
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 God. Philosophical discussion of miracles usually revolves around the attempt to link a miracle to God in just this way. One of the problems with this approach is that it is very difficult to identify anything as being forever beyond the power of science to explain. Science continues to advance upon the territory occupied by the god of the gaps. Thus it is desirable to develop an account of divine agency that will not be subject to revision in the face of scientific progress. This book is just such an account. Drawing on recent work in the theory of action, it shows that we can attribute God's agency to an event in nature without eliminating the possibility that it might be explained scientifically. In bringing God's actions out of the gaps, we avoid the possibility that future discoveries in science will make our talk of divine agency obsolete.-
Analytic Philosophy: The History of an Illusion
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Kierkegaard on Ethics and Religion
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Kierkegaard's Analysis of Radical Evil
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The History of Intentionality
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The Demands of Taste in Kant's Aesthetics
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Kierkegaard on Sin and Salvation
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Rousseau and the Ethics of Virtue
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Descartes and the Doubting Mind
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Kantian Deeds
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Rationality and Feminist Philosophy
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Postanalytic and Metacontinental
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Reconceiving Medical Ethics
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Platonism, Music and the Listener's Share
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Languages of Intentionality
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Kant on Spontaneity
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Difficult Freedom and Radical Evil in Kant
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The Virtue of Feminist Rationality
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Re-Thinking the Cogito
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Thomas Aquinas & John Duns Scotus
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The Aesthetic in Kant
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The Challenge of Relativism
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Hegel's Rabble
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Climate Change and Philosophy
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Art, Myth and Society in Hegel's Aesthetics
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Descartes on Innate Ideas
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Hegel's Theory of Recognition
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Kant's Aesthetic Theory
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Kant's Concept of Genius
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Spinoza and the Stoics
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The Dimensions of Hegel's Dialectic
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St. Augustine and the Theory of Just War
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The Suspension of Reason in Hegel and Schelling
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Hegel and the Analytic Tradition
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Conflict, Power, and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza
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Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art
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Rousseau and Radical Democracy
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Hegel's Philosophy of Language
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Duns Scotus and the Problem of Universals
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Spinoza's Radical Cartesian Mind
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Origins of Analytic Philosophy
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Descartes and the Metaphysics of Human Nature
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Augustine and Roman Virtue
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Objectivity in the Feminist Philosophy of Science
"The author succeeds, I think, in offering a fresh approach to an overworked topic" -Patrick Sherry, The Authors Journal Compilation. January 2009.
David Corner is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Sacramento, USA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780826488879 |
| ISBN 10 | 0826488870 |
| Title | The Philosophy of Miracles |
| Author | David Corner |
| Series | Continuum Studies In Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2007-01-21 |
| Number of pages | 174 |
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