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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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Extract: Russell and Coplestone debate Religious Experience

Russell And Copletstone Debate Source: bringyou.to C: Let’s. Well, perhaps I might say a word about religious experience, and then we can…

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Extract: 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…

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Weblinks: 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…

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Extract 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,…

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Extract 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)…

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Handout: 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…

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Extract 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…

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Summary: 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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Essay Mark Scheme: Miracles and a benevolent God

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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