Extract 2: Gaunilo’s Reply
Selections from Gaunilo’s Response to Anselm A reply to the foregoing by a certain writer on behalf of the fool…
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Russell And Copletstone Debate Source: bringyou.to C: Let’s. Well, perhaps I might say a word about religious experience, and then we can…
Read MoreExtract: Stace on mystical experiences
Stace on mystical experiences Review by Tim Knepper, 2001 Stace, Walter T. Mysticism and Philosophy. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960. The following review of…
Read MoreWeblinks: Miracles
Miracles Weblinks Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Miracles http://www.iep.utm.edu/miracles/ For a short introduction tot he question of miracles and an evaluation go…
Read MoreExtract 3: Walt Whitman on Miracles
Miracles By Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,…
Read MoreExtract 5: AJ Ayer God talk is nonsense
‘God-talk is evidently nonsense’ — AJ Ayer in Davies B (editor) — Philosophy of Religion: a guide and anthology (OUP, 2000)…
Read MoreHandout: Jonathan Rowe – Evaluating Religious Experience
The Argument From Religious Experience – Jonathan Rowe Source: sgsphilosophy.webs.com If a person experiences something, then it exists People experience God…
Read MoreExtract 1: John Hick on soul-making
Hick on soul-making In this extract from Philosophy of Religion (1963) pages 44–46 John Hick adopts a negative theodicy by arguing…
Read MoreSummary: Falsification
Falsification Debate Source: a2philosophy.edublogs.org Popper’s Falsification Principle The point is that Carl Popper made the point that in science it’s not so…
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Critically assess the view that the concept of miracle is inconsistent with belief in a benevolent God. Jan 2012 Q2 OCR…
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