plantinga, wolterstorff and westphal are three eminent christian philosophers in the united states today. this paper will examine plantinga, wolterstorff, and westphal's response to kant's anti-realist epistemology. while perhaps many christian philosophers doing philosophy of religion in the united states follow the common-sense realism of thomas reid, some philosophers, like merold ...

What does philosophy contribute to cognitive science? This question is addressed indirectly, by describing some of the many roles philosophers play. These include Pioneer, Building Inspector, Zen Monk, Cartographer, Archivist, Cheerleader and Gadfly. As a preparatory exercise, philosophers are characterized in terms of their primary methods: argument, conceptual analysis, and historical perspec...

In this paper, we consider another generalization for quasi-ideal orthodox transversal, the so-called S0-orthodox transversals. We give a structure theorem for regular semigroups with S0-orthodox transversals. If S0 is a S0-orthodox transversal of S then S can be described in terms of S0. Mathematics Subject Classification: 20M10

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2009: 35(1) Jewish law Jewish law consists of two sections: written law and oral law. The foundation of the written law and the origin of its authority is the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. The Torah is traditionally believed to have been given in a theophany on Mount Sinai and to contain the literal direct word of God. After the destruction of th...

Like morally sensitive hospital staff, philosophers resist routine simplification of morally complex cases. Like hospital clergy, they favour reflective and principled decision-making. Like hospital lawyers, they refine and extend the language we use to formulate and defend our complex decisions. But hospital philosophers are not redundant: they have a wider range of principles and categories a...

Prior research found correlations between reflection test performance and philosophical tendencies among laypeople. In two large studies (total N = 1299)—one pre-registered—many of these were replicated in a sample that included both laypeople philosophers. For example, predicted preferring atheism over theism instrumental harm avoidance on the trolley problem. However, most reflection-philosop...

one of the most important and disputable problems in philosophy of religion is “the problem of evil”. at the course of the history, theologians have put forward different solutions to this problem. one of them which have been propounded by some western philosophers and almost all islamic philosophers, is called the doctrine of “inexistency of evils” so the main purpose of this article is as fol...