Issues in the Philosophy of Religion

01.08.2007

Englisch

9783938793701

Editiones Scholasticae

Nein

Nicholas Rescher

117

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Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he also served for many years as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is a former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and has also served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Americna Metaphysical Society, the American G. W. Leibniz Society, and the C. S. Peirce Society. An honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has been elected to membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia Europaea), the Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Professor Rescher has received six honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated into other languages, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.

Religionsphilosophie, Philosophie, Theologie

Preface Chapter 1: ON FAITH AND BELIEF Chapter 2: THE ONTOLOGICAL PROOF REVISITED Chapter 3: RELIGION AND PRAGMATISM Chapter 4: PROCESS THEOLOGY Chapter 5: GOD’S PLACE IN PHILOSOPHY Chapter 6: CAN A SCIENTIST BE SERIOUS ABOUT RELIGION? Chapter 7: DARWINISM AND THE INTELLIGENT DESIGN IN THE CONTEXT OF THEISM Chapter 8: AQUINAS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF EPISTEMIC DISPARITY Chapter 9: THOMISM: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE Chapter 10: RESPECT FOR TRADITION Chapter 11: IN MATTERS OF RELIGION Index of Names