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  1. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy.William James - 1979 - New York: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers & Ignas K. Skrupskelis.
    For this 1897 publication, the American philosopher William James brought together ten essays, some of which were originally talks given to Ivy League societies. Accessible to a broader audience, these non-technical essays illustrate the author's pragmatic approach to belief and morality, arguing for faith and action in spite of uncertainty. James thought his audiences suffered 'paralysis of their native capacity for faith' while awaiting scientific grounds for belief. His response consisted in an attitude of 'radical empiricism', which deals practically rather (...)
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  • Faith and reason.Richard Swinburne - 1981 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    "Faith and Reason is the final volume of a trilogy on philosophical theology.
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  • Between Physics and Philosophy. [REVIEW]Blaise Pascal - 1942 - Modern Schoolman 19 (2):40-40.
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  • Reply to Professor Rachels.Robert A. Oakes - 1972 - Religious Studies 8 (2):165 - 167.
  • Reply to Professor Rachels: ROBERT A. OAKES.Robert A. Oakes - 1972 - Religious Studies 8 (2):165-167.
  • Ethics without God.Kai Nielsen - 1973 - Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.
    Argues that morality can exist without religion, suggests that values and principles of conduct emerge from life, and examines the consequences of moral absolutism.
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  • Worship and Moral Autonomy.Joseph L. Lombardi - 1988 - Religious Studies 24 (2):101 - 119.
  • Worship and Moral Autonomy.Joseph L. Lombardi - 1988 - Religious Studies 24 (2):101-119.
    A number of years ago, James Rachels presented an argument for the necessary non–existence of God. It was based upon a supposed inconsistency between worship and what might be called ‘autonomous moral agency’. In Rachels' view, one person's being the worshipper of another is partially determined by the way in which it is appropriate for the first to respond to the commands of the second. In brief, a worshipper's obedience to commands should be ‘ unqualified ’. Rachels thought that there (...)
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  • Rational resolve.Richard Holton - 2004 - Philosophical Review 113 (4):507-535.
    Empirical findings suggest that temptation causes agents not only to change their desires, but also to revise their beliefs, in ways that are not necessarily irrational. But if this is so, how can it be rational to maintain a resolution to resist? For in maintaining a resolution it appears that one will be acting against what one now believes to be best. This paper proposes a two-tier account according to which it can be rational neither to reconsider the question of (...)
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  • The philosophy of religion: A programmatic overview.John Bishop - 2006 - Philosophy Compass 1 (5):506–534.
    It is argued that philosophy of religion should focus not only on the epistemic justifiability of holding religious beliefs but also on the moral justifiability of commitment to their truth in practical reasoning. If the truth of classical theism may turn out to be evidentially ambiguous, then pressure is placed on the moral evidentialist assumption that one is morally justified in taking a theistic truth-claim to be true only if one's total evidence sufficiently supports its truth. After investigating some contemporary (...)
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  • The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy. Human Immortality; Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine.William James - 1956 - Dover Publications.
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  • Rationality and religious theism.Joshua L. Golding - 2003 - Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
    This book proposes that parties on both sides of this debate might shift their attention in a different direction, by focusing on the question of whether it is ...
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