Introducing Philosophy of Religion

ISBN-13: 9780415403269 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 256 str.

Meister Chad; Chad V. Meister

Opis

Offers an overview of contemporary philosophy of religion. This book introduces the key figures in the history of philosophy of religion, and explores the impact of religious diversity and pluralism. It also examines the main arguments for and against the existence of God and the nature of the divine.

Spis treści

Part One: Religion and the Philosophy of Religion  1. Religion and the World Religions  2. Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion  3. Philosophy of Religion Timeline  4. Religious Beliefs and Practices  Summary  Part Two: Religious Diversity and Pluralism  5. The Diversity of Religions  6. Religious Inclusivism and Exclusivism  7. Religious Pluralism  8. Religious Relativism  9. Evaluating Religious Systems  10. Religious Tolerance  Summary  Part Three: Conceptions of Ultimate Reality  11. Ultimate Reality: The Absolute and the Void  12. Ultimate Reality: A Personal God  Summary  Part Four: Arguments for God's Existence: Cosmological  13. The Argument from Contingency  14. The Sufficient Reason Argument  15. The Kalam Argument  16. A Cosmological Argument for Atheism  Summary  Part Five: Arguments for God's Existence: Teleological  17. Paley's Design Argument  18. A Fine-Tuning Argument  19. An Intelligent Design Argument  Summary  Part Six: Arguments for God's Existence: Ontological  20. Anselm's Ontological Argument  21. Plantinga's Modal Ontological Argument  Summary  Part Seven: Problems of Evil  22. Sketching the Terrain  23. Theoretical Problems of Evil  24. The Existential Problem of Evil  25. Three Theodicies  Summary  Part Eight: Science, Faith and Reason  26. Religion and Science  27. Religious Belief and Justification  Summary  Part Nine: Religious Experience  28. The Nature and Diversity of Religious Experience  29. Religious Experience and Justification  30. Scientific Explanations of Religious Experience  Summary  Part Ten: The Self, Death and the Afterlife  31. Conceptions of the Self  32. Reincarnation and Karma  33. Arguments for Immortality  34. Arguments against Immortality 

O autorze

Chad Meister is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Bethel College, Indiana. He has substantial experience of teaching in USA philosophy departments, and has a good knowledge of student needs.