God & Government

God and the Government: Women, Religion, and Reproduction in Nicaragua

The context of this paper is my long-term research project analyzing the role of Catholicism in contemporary Nicaragua in defining women, women ́s roles, and their rights, especially reproductive rights. I am looking at the role of the Catholic Church as an institution in national policies in Nicaragua and its influence on the country ́s international policies, especially in the context of the mo...

God Knows (But does God Believe?)

The standard view in epistemology is that propositional knowledge entails belief. Positive arguments are seldom given for this entailment thesis, however; instead, its truth is typically assumed. Against the entailment thesis, Myers-Schulz and Schwitzgebel (forthcoming) report that a non trivial percentage of people think that there can be propositional knowledge without belief. In this paper, ...

Government as God: an update on federal intervention in the treatment of critically ill newborns.

Experiencing God

Some philosophers claim that it is not possible for God, if God exists, to figure in the phenomenological content of experience. W.T. Stace was one such philosopher committed to this claim, but he offered nothing in the way of an argument for it. William Forgie, however, has argued that on the assumption of two putatively plausible theses about the phenomenology of experience, phenomenologicall...

Terrible God

Recent advances in our knowledge of mental illness have not lr*ade it any easier to reconcile this suffering with a belief in Cod. As long as all mental illness could be ascribed to evil spirits the Question of God's responsibility was not so great. The dichotomy of ^?d and the devil did give, as it were, a working solution to the problem although it did not give any final answer. The very idea of