...A. N. Williams Denys Turner, Faith, Reason, and the Existence of God . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xix + 271 pp. Cornell University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS Allan Gibbard, Thinking How to Live. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. ix + 302...

...Wayne Proudfoot Andrew Dole and Andrew Chignell, eds., God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in the Philosophy of Religion . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii + 282 pp. Cornell University 2008 xxx pr08-004 June 10, 2008 10:56...

...Derk Pereboom William Rowe, Can God Be Free? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 173 pp. Cornell University 2009 BOOK REVIEWS Hendrik Lorenz, The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. 229 pp. The three parts...

...Don Garrett Griffin Michael V. , Leibniz, God, and Necessity . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . xi +195 pp. © 2014 by Cornell University 2014 “Metaphysics,” Leibniz declared, “is natural theology.” In his illuminating new book, Michael Griffin builds...

...Peter Forrest © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 Moser Paul K. , The Evidence for God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . x + 280 pp . BOOK REVIEWS Huw Price, Naturalism Without Mirrors. New York...

...Daniel Howard-Snyder Cornell University 2000 GOD AND INSCRUTABLE EVIL: IN DEFENSE OF THEISM AND ATHEISM. By David O'Connor. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Pp. xiii, 273. BOOK REVIEWS Moreover, the book is full of levelheaded arguments and useful...

...Philip L. Quinn Cornell University 2001 HORRENDOUS EVILS AND THE GOODNESS OF GOD. By Marilyn McCord Adams. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 220. BOOK REVEWS The Philosophical &vim, Vol. 110, No. 3 (July 2001...

...Hongwoo Kwon There are close parallels between Frank Jackson's case of black-and-white Mary and David Lewis's case of the two omniscient gods. This essay develops and defends what may be called “the ability hypothesis” about the knowledge that the gods lack, by adapting Lewis's ability hypothesis...

...C. Stephen Evans Murphy Mark C. Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2017 . x + 198 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 Mark C. Murphy's God's Own Ethics is an exercise in what has come to be called Anselmian perfect-being theology, the attempt to determine the nature of God...

... in the intellect of God. Although other early moderns agreed that modal truths are in some way dependent on God, there were sharp disagreements surrounding two distinct questions: (1) On what in God do modal truths and modal truth-makers depend? (2) What is the manner(s) of dependence by which modal truths...

...Patrick Todd The most promising way of responding to arguments for the incompatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom (in one way or another) invokes a claim about the order of explanation: God knew (or believed) that you would perform a given action because you would, in fact, perform...

... foreknowledge and human freedom and the Ockhamist's way. In particular, this essay further demonstrates that when it comes to divine foreknowledge's compatibility with human freedom, the fundamental question is not the Ockhamist's question of whether God's beliefs about what an agent will do in the future...

...John Martin Fischer; Patrick Todd In his recent essay in the Philosophical Review , “Truth and Freedom,” Trenton Merricks contends (among other things) that the basic argument for the incompatibility of God's foreknowledge and human freedom is question-begging. He relies on a “truism” to the effect...

...Andrew Bacon In explaining the notion of a fundamental property or relation, metaphysicians will often draw an analogy with languages. The fundamental properties and relations stand to reality as the primitive predicates and relations stand to a language: the smallest set of vocabulary God would...

...Graham Oppy Speaks Jeff The Greatest Possible Being Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018 viii +175 pp. © 2020 by Cornell University 2020 Perfect being theology recommends a modal conception of God: God is the greatest conceivable being; or God is the greatest possible...

... traditional Greek religion. On one hand, Aristotle maintains that anthropomorphic depictions of the gods play a positive and in fact essential role in the state. On the other hand, he claims that these depictions are false, and in some cases pernicious; for example, contrary to the poets' lies, the gods...

... of how God’s causal power relates to the natural causal activity of creatures, Leibniz held that both God and the creature are directly involved in the occurrence of these effects. A divine concurrentist, in general, intends to satisfy two theses that were held by the vast majority of theologians...

.... Jeffrey, Richard C. 1983 . The Logic of Decision . 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Jeffreys, Harold. 1961 . Theory of Probability. 3d ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press. Jordan, Jeff, ed. 1994 . Gambling on God: Essays on Pascal's Wager . Lanham, Md.: Rowman...

...: THE MOLNIST ACCOUNT By Tnoms P. FLINT. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 258. Christian theists have always been concerned with the relationship between God’s providential control and human freedom. Flint’s book is an expli- cation and defense of what he sees as the best way...

... both in identifying God with the Good and, more distinctively, in including a divine command theory of moral obligation. Read- ers familiar with Adams’s earlier divine command theory will recall that in response to the worry that God might command something evil, Adams intro- duced an independent...