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God, Mind and KnowledGe The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion Series Series Editor: Harriet a. Harris, University of edinburgh, UK Editorial Board: Robin le Poidevin andrew Moore Yujin nagasawa Christopher Hamilton oliver Crisp John Taylor John Cottingham Brian leftow Richard Swinburne Roger Trigg Philosophy of religion is undergoing a fascinating period of development and transformation. Public interest is growing as the power of religion for both good and ill is becoming ever more apparent, as energetic forms of atheism open up the public imagination to many philosophical questions about God, and as fresh perspectives and questions arise due to the unprecedented level of interaction between different religious faiths. The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion harnesses, reflects and further promotes these interests, within the UK and internationally. The BSPR is the UK’s main forum for the interchange of ideas in the philosophy of religion. This series, in association with the BSPR, presents books devoted to themes of major concern within the field of philosophy of religion – books which will significantly shape contemporary debate around key themes both nationally and internationally. Other titles in the series God, Goodness and Philosophy edited by Harriet a. Harris God, Mind and Knowledge andRew MooRe Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, UK © andrew Moore 2014 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. andrew Moore has asserted his right under the Copyright, designs and Patents act, 1988, to be identified as the editor of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing Company wey Court east 110 Cherry Street Union Road Suite 3-1 Farnham Burlington, VT 05401-3818 Surrey, GU9 7PT USa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data a catalogue record for this book is available from the British library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: God, mind and knowledge / edited by andrew Moore. pages cm. – (The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion series) includes index. iSBn 978-1-4094-6208-8 (hardcover) – iSBn 978-1-4094-6210-1 (pbk) – iSBn 978- 1-4094-6209-5 (ebook) – iSBn 978-1-4724-0756-6 (epub) 1. Religion–Philosophy. i. Moore, andrew. Bl51.G6835 2014 210–dc23 2013031410 iSBn 9781409462088 (hbk) iSBn 9781409462101 (pbk) iSBn 9781409462095 (ebk – PdF) iSBn 9781472407566 (ePUB – PdF) III Contents Acknowledgements vii Contributors ix Foreword xi 1 God, Mind and Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion 1 Andrew Moore PART I The ePIsTemoLogy of ReLIgIous BeLIef 2 Knowledge of God: insider information or objective evidence? 17 John Cottingham 3 a Robust Reformed epistemology 35 Anthony Bolos 4 oracles, obstacles and Revelations 53 Charles Taliaferro 5 Belief in a Good and loving God: a Case Study in the Varieties of a Religious Belief 67 Gabriel Citron PART II DIvIne AnD humAn mInDs 6 Belief Formation and Biased Minds 89 Olli-Pekka Vainio and Aku Visala 7 when does God Know? open Theism, Simultaneous Causation, and divine Knowledge of the Present 103 Benjamin H. Arbour 8 Corcoran’s anthropological Constitutionalism and the Problem of Post-Mortem Survival 121 James K. Dew, Jr vi God, Mind and Knowledge 9 The Paradox of eden and Black-and-white Mary 135 Yujin Nagasawa PART III The sTATus of goD 10 Theology as Metaphor 147 Anthony Kenny 11 Projecting God 157 Robin Le Poidevin 12 God, Reason and extraterrestrials 171 Stephen R. L. Clark Afterword 187 Index 189 acknowledgements This book has its origins in a conference organized by the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, and most of the chapters it contains are descended from papers given at it. i am grateful to the contributors for their help in the preparation of the book, and to Harriet Harris – the BSPR Series editor – and Robin le Poidevin for their help and advice at various stages in its gestation. it has been a pleasure to work with Sarah lloyd and david Shervington of ashgate, and thanks are owing to them for their encouragement, patience and unfailing helpfulness. aJM This page has been left blank intentionally Contributors Ben Arbour is a Phd candidate at the University of Bristol. He teaches courses in philosophy and ethics at weatherford College, and he currently lives in Fort worth, Texas. Anthony Bolos is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the institute for advanced Study at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem where he is currently working on a Templeton funded project in Philosophy and analytic Theology. gabriel Citron is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Philosophy, at Yale University. He has published articles on the philosophy of religion and on wittgenstein, and is currently co-editing Wittgenstein’s Lectures: Cambridge 1930–33, from the notes of G.e. Moore. stephen R. L. Clark is emeritus Professor of Philosophy at liverpool, and an Honorary Research Fellow in Theology at Bristol University. His most recent book is Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy (Continuum, 2012). John Cottingham is Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of london, Professor emeritus of Philosophy at Reading University and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, oxford. His recent books include Why Believe? and Cartesian Reflections. James K. Dew, Jr is the dean of the College and associate Professor of the History of ideas and Philosophy at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Anthony Kenny was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Balliol College oxford, of which he then became Master from 1978–89. later he was President of the British academy and Chairman of the British library. He is the author of some 40 books, mainly on Philosophy. Robin Le Poidevin is Professor of Metaphysics at the University of leeds and editor of Religious Studies. His publications include The Images of Time: an essay on temporal representation (oxford, 2007) and Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction (oxford, 2010).
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