Hasker at the Bridge of Death
Glenn Peoples
This paper is a critique of William Hasker's Emergent dualism when it comes to the question of whether or not - and how - the mind can survive the death of the body. (Soon to be published in Philosophia Christi)
Rawls, Rationality and Religion
Glenn Peoples
A paper presented to the 2006 conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophers, addressing the question of whether or not religious beliefs are such that they are excluded by a Rawlsian constraint on the type of beliefs that we can presuppose in public life. Do they enjoy public justification? That depends on whether or not they are true, I argue, among other things.
Faith in Public: A Response to Greg Dawes
Glenn Peoples
An article I had published in the Journal of Religion and Society in 2005, responding to the claim that in contemporary academia we ought to hold a "presumption of naturalism."
A New Euthyphro
Glenn Peoples
Plato's Euthyphro is widely thought to contain a knock down argument against theologically grounded ethics - widely thought, that is, outside of the field of philosophy of religion. The so-called Euthyphro dilemma is said to show that moral rightness cannot possibly consist in what God wills, but much of its success lies in the way the author was able to paint Euthyphro as the loser. Had Euthyphro been better informed and quicker on his feet, he would have won hands down - as he does in this revised version of the Euthyphro dialogue. A bit of philosophical fun - with a point. This paper will be published in Think: Philosophy for Everyone in the near future.
Is There an Echo in Here? Critiques of God Based
Ethics
Glenn Peoples
The field of moral philosophy has an Achilles' heel, namely the way it treats theological grounded accounts of ethics. The same old objections keep appearing repeatedly, completely ignoring the able responses that have been offered from those who actually specialise in philosophy of religion. Here I survey some of these objections and point out that there's an echo in here.
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