Abstract

© 2013 The Editors of The Philosophical QuarterlyProfessor Haldane's collection of essays covers not only topics of Philosophy of Religion, but issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. They are treated not so much from a particular religious viewpoint, or from a philosophical tradition associated with religious principles, but by using materials inspired by such viewpoints and traditions. Haldane is explicitly combating an influential strand of thought in academic philosophy which would exclude such materials in principle, even while the discipline increases its openness to inspirations from external sources such literature, social history, and neuroscience, and while the philosophy of the English‐speaking world has an increasingly open‐minded attitude to alternative methodologies and traditions, such as continental philosophy. What results is a set of intriguing philosophical explorations, mostly focused on the views of a particular philosopher,...