Beyond Faith and Rationality

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Beyond Faith and Rationality

      • Benedikt Paul Göcke, Ricardo Sousa Silvestre, Jean-Yvez Béziau, Purushottama Bilimoria

      Pages 3-16

3. Analytic Philosophy of Religion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Why Believe That There Is a God?

      • Richard Swinburne

      Pages 19-28

   3. The Failure of van Inwagen’s Solution to the Problem of Evil

      • Benedikt Paul Göcke

      Pages 29-48

   4. Saadia Gaon on the Problem of Evil

      • Eleonore Stump

      Pages 49-74

   5. Some Problems with Miracles and a Religious Approach to Them

      • Agnaldo Cuoco Portugal

      Pages 75-90

4. Logical Philosophy of Religion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. An Even More Leibnizian Version of Gödel’s Ontological Argument

      • Kordula Świetorzecka, Marcin Łyczak

      Pages 93-104

   3. A Tractarian Resolution to the Ontological Argument

      • Erik Thomsen

      Pages 105-119

   4. Some Thoughts on the Logical Aspects of the Problem of Evil

      • Ricardo Sousa Silvestre

      Pages 121-135

   5. The Logic of the Trinity and the Filioque Question in Thomas Aquinas: A Formal Approach

      • Fábio Maia Bertato

      Pages 137-151

   6. Contradictions and Rationality: An Analysis of Two Biblical Cases

      • Susana Gómez Gutiérrez

      Pages 153-169

5. Computational Philosophy and Religion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Talmudic Norms Approach to Mixtures with a Solution to the Paradox of the Heap: A Position Paper

      • Esther David, Rabbi S. David, Dov M. Gabbay, Uri J. Schild

      Pages 173-193

   3. A Case Study on Computational Hermeneutics: E. J. Lowe’s Modal Ontological Argument

      • David Fuenmayor, Christoph Benzmüller

      Pages 195-228

   4. A Mechanically Assisted Examination of Vacuity and Question Begging in Anselm’s Ontological Argument

      • John Rushby

      Pages 229-253

6. Logic, Language and Religion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255

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   2. Logic and Religion: The Essential Connection

      • Benjamin Murphy

      Pages 257-275

This volume deals with the relation between faith and reason, and brings the latest developments of modern logic into the scene. Faith and rationality are two perennial key concepts in the history of ideas. Philosophers and theologians have struggled to bring into harmony these otherwise conflicting concepts. Despite the diversity of approaches about what rationality effectively means, logic remains the cannon of objective and rational thought. The chapters in this volume analyze several issues pertaining to the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology from the perspective of their relation to logic and the benefit they can derive from the use of modern logic tools. The book is divided into five parts: (I) Introduction, (II) Analytic Philosophy of Religion, (III) Logical Philosophy of Religion, (IV) Computational Philosophy and Religion and (V) Logic, Language and Religion. This text appeals to students and researchers in the field.

         

• Arguments for the Existence of God
• Contradiction and Rationality
• Formalization in Philosophy
• Formalization of Religious Concepts
• Formalization of Theist Arguments
• Logic and Religion
• Logic and Religious Traditions
• Logic, Philosophy and Religion
• Problem of Evil
• Rationality of Religious Belief

“This book represents an exciting reference for logical contemplation on religious beliefs, yet with a strong focus on Judeo- Christian traditions.” (Huỳnh Cao Nhựt Quang, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 47 (4), December, 2021)

• Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil

  Ricardo Sousa Silvestre

• University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  Benedikt Paul Göcke

• Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Jean-Yvez Béziau

• University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

  Purushottama Bilimoria

Ricardo Sousa Silvestre holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Montreal. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Oxford (UK), Notre Dame (USA) and Québec (Canada). He is the author of several papers on Logic and Philosophy of Religion and guest-editor of a couple of special issues on the field of Logic and Religion, namely  the special issues on the Concept of God (2019) and Formal Approaches to the Ontological Argument (2018) of the Journal of Applied Logics (College Publications), the special issue on Logic and Philosophy of Religion (2017) of Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions (Springer) and the special issue on Logic and Religion (2017) of Logica Universalis (Springer). He is one of the creators and main organizers of the World Congress on Logic and Religion series. He is presently Associate Professor at Federal University of Campina Grande (Brazil).

Benedikt Paul Göcke is a Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and a Member of the Faculty of Theology at University of Oxford.  He is also a Member of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. Göcke is author of:  A Theory of the Absolute  (Macmillan, 2014),  Alles in Gott? (Friedrich Pustet, 2012) and editor of After Physicalism (Notre Dame, 2012). He has published articles in journals such as The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Zygon, Sophia, The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and Theologie und Philosophie, among others.



Jean-Yves Beziau has a Ph.D. in Mathematics (University of Paris 7) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (University of São Paulo, Brazil). He has done research in France, Brazil, Poland, California (UCLA, Stanford, UCSD) and Switzerland. He is presentlyprofessor of logic in Rio de Janeiro at the University of Brazil, and the President of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy. He is the promoter of Universal Logic as a general theory of logical structures, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Logica Universalis and book series Studies in Universal Logic, both published by Birkhäuser/Springer, Basel. He has organized a series of events on universal logic around the world (Montreux 2005, Xi'an 2007, Lisbon 2010, Rio de Janeiro, 2013, Istanbul 2015, Vichy 2018). He has renewed the study of the square of opposition, organizing interdisciplinary world events on the topic (Montreux 2007, Corsica, 2010, Beirut 2012, Vatican 2014, Easter Island 2016, Crete 2018) and the publication of special issues of journals and books. In 2019 he launched on January 14 the 1st World Logic Day which was celebrated in 60 locations around the world and was subsequently approved as an international day of UNESCO.




Purushottama Bilimoria, PhD, is presently a Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Fellow in India affiliated with Ashoka University. He is also lecturer with Legal Studies in the University of California, Berkeley, and serves as a senior fellow in Indian Philosophy with the Center for Dharma Studies at Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley. He is otherwise a Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Studies at Deakin University and Senior Fellow at University of Melbourne, in Australia. He is a Permanent Fellow with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies in Oxford University, and past visiting scholar at All Souls College, University of Oxford, Harvard University, Emory University and UC Santa Barbara, and Visiting Professor in two universities in Brazil. He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sophia, international journal of philosophy & traditions and of the Journal of Dharma Studies, both published by Springer.



    

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