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Theism

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  • © 1984

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Authors:
  1. Clement Dore

    1. Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 30)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Does Suffering Serve Valuable Ends?

    • Clement Dore
    Pages 1-13

  3. The Cosmological Argument

    • Clement Dore
    Pages 14-24

  4. The Design Argument

    • Clement Dore
    Pages 25-35

  5. A Moral Argument

    • Clement Dore
    Pages 36-48

  6. A Modal Argument

    • Clement Dore
    Pages 49-61

  7. Is God’S Existence Logically Possible?

    • Clement Dore
    Pages 62-81

  8. Descartes’s Meditation V Argument

    • Clement Dore
    Pages 82-103

  9. Agnosticism

    • Clement Dore
    Pages 104-110

  10. God and Perceptual Skepticism

    • Clement Dore
    Pages 111-140

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 141-200
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About this book

In this book, I discuss the question whether God exists, not as a Tillichian religious symbol, but as an actual person, albeit a person who is very different from you and me. My procedure is to examine arguments bdth for and against God's existence qua person and to assess their relative merits. I shall try to show that there is more evidence that God exists than that he does not. This position is, of course, rejected nowadays, even by most religious thinkers, who hold, for one reason or another, that evidence has nothing to do with religious belief, properly understood. My reply to these thinkers is simply to ask them to examine what follows. A useful companion to Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, and the Appendix of this book would be Alvin Plantinga's The Nature of Necessity.l Though I avoid technical terminology wherever possible, those chapters presuppose an elementary understanding of 'possible worlds' discourse; and a clear and concise explanation of that terminology can be found in Chapter IV of Plantinga's book. Also, I use 'logical' throughout to mean what Plantinga means by 'broadly logical' on page 2 of The Nature of Necessity.

Reviews

`Dore has written an interesting and important book, a book that should keep many at a seminar (or upper level undergraduate course) in philosophy of religion hard at work for some time to come. ...every chapter in this impressive work is filled with interesting arguments, objections, and replies. ...this is a fine book and is strongly recommended for use in advanced courses in philosophy of religion.
...anyone with a serious interest in philosophical theology should come to grips with this thoughtful work.'
Faith and Philosophy
`This is a book for serious students of the philosophy of religion in the analytical style; and they shouldn't miss it.'
Philosophical and Phenomenological Research

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

    Clement Dore

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Theism

  • Authors: Clement Dore

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6300-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1984

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1683-5Published: 30 April 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-6302-3Published: 09 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6300-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 200

  • Topics: Philosophy of Religion

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