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    The concept of faith: a philosophical investigation.William Lad Sessions - 1994 - Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
    [ I ] Introduction Countless words have been written about faith, and doubtless there will be more. "If it were all to be recorded in detail, I suppose the ...
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    Reading Hume's Dialogues: A Veneration for True Religion.William Lad Sessions - 2002 - Indiana University Press.
    "... establishes the literary and philosophical greatness of the Dialogues in ways that even its warmest admirers have been unable to do before." -- Terence Penelhum In this lively reading of David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, William Lad Sessions reveals a complex internal hermeneutic that gives new form, structure, and meaning to the work. Linking situations, character, style, and action to the philosophical concepts presented, Sessions finds meaning contained in the work itself and calls attention to the internal connections (...)
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    Natural Piety in the dialogues.William Lad Sessions - 2001 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 49 (1):49-62.
  4. A New Look at Moral Arguments for Theism.William Lad Sessions - 1985 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 18 (1/2):51 - 67.
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    Author! Author! Some Reflections on Design in and beyond Hume’s Dialogues.William Lad Sessions - 1998 - The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 36:178-186.
    Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion may be read in the way Cleanthes reads Nature, as analogous to human artifice and contrivance. The Dialogues and Nature then are both texts, with an intelligent author or Author, and analogies may be started from these five facts of Hume's text: the independence of Hume's characters; the non-straightforwardness of the characters' discourse; the way the characters interact and live; the entanglements of Pamphilus as an internal author; and the ways in which a reader is (...)
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  6. A Critical Examination of Dipolar Panentheism.William Lad Sessions - 1971 - Dissertation, Yale University
     
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    A Dialogic Interpretation of Hume's Dialogues.William Lad Sessions - 1991 - Hume Studies 17 (1):15-39.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:A Dialogic Interpretation of Hume's Dialogues William Lad Sessions For all ofits prominence in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy of religion, Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion continues to provoke divergent readings, especially as regards its author's intentions and beliefs. Most writers today, following Norman Kemp Smith's masterful analysis, accept some version ofwhat I will call "the standard interpretation": Hume aimed to discredit religion—natural and revealed religion alike, but especially the "experimental (...)
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    Charles Hartshorne and thirdness.William Lad Sessions - 1974 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 12 (2):239-252.
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  9. Coherence, proper basicality and moral arguments for theism.William Lad Sessions - 1987 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 22 (3):119 - 137.
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    (1 other version)Kant and Religious Belief.William Lad Sessions - 1980 - Kant Studien 71 (1-4):455-468.
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    On “Inclusion”: A Response to Hartshorne.William Lad Sessions - 2010 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 17 (4):555-562.
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    Plantinga's Box.William Lad Sessions - 1991 - Faith and Philosophy 8 (1):51-66.
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    Rawls’s Concept and Conception of Primary Good.William Lad Sessions - 1981 - Social Theory and Practice 7 (3):303-324.
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    Religious faith and rational justification.William Lad Sessions - 1982 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 13 (3):143 - 156.
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    William James and the Right to Over-Believe.William Lad Sessions - 1981 - Philosophy Research Archives 7:996-1045.
    William James's essay, "The Will to Believe," is interpreted as a philosophical argument for two conclusions: (l) Some over-beliefs—i.e., beliefs going beyond the available evidence—are rationally justified under certain conditions; and (2) "The Religious Hypothesis" is justified for some people under these conditions. Section I defends viewing James as presenting arguments, Sections II-III try to formulate the dual conclusions more precisely, and Section IT defends this reading against alternative interpretations. Section 7, the heart of the paper, elaborates five logically distinct (...)
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    II. Feuer, psychology, and the ontologigal argument.William Lad Sessions - 1969 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 12 (1-4):431-434.
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    John R. T. Lamont, Divine Faith (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2004). Pp.252. £47.50 (Hbk). ISBN 0 7546 3709 3. [REVIEW]William Lad Sessions - 2006 - Religious Studies 42 (3):351-355.
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    Process Theology. [REVIEW]William Lad Sessions - 1990 - Faith and Philosophy 7 (1):123-127.
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  19. Review of Robert C Solomon, Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life[REVIEW]William Lad Sessions - 2003 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (1).
     
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    The God of Metaphysics. [REVIEW]William Lad Sessions - 2009 - Faith and Philosophy 26 (1):108-111.
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    The Rise of American Philosophy. [REVIEW]William Lad Sessions - 1978 - Process Studies 8 (1):56-60.
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