Abstract Enric F. Gel has recently argued that classical theism enjoys a significant advantage over Graham Oppy's naturalism. According to Gel, – unlike naturalism satisfactorily answers two questions: first, how many first causes are there, and second, why is it number rather than another? In this article, I reply Gel's argument for theism's also draw out wider implications of my investigation...

The moral error theory, it seems, could be true. mere possibility of its truth might also seem inconsequential. But is not. For, I argue, there a sense in which the theory possible that generates an argument against both non-cognitivism and naturalism. argue epistemic morality subject to some form wholesale kind would make Denying this has three unwelcome consequences such allowing for explaini...

BEFORE discussing the role and significance of comparative philosophy for the study of Islamic philosophy, it is necessary to define exactly what we mean by comparative philosophy, for only too often today facile comparisons are made between Oriental metaphysical doctrines of a sacred nature and secular modern philosophies without the least consideration for the basic difference in the nature o...

Conceptual analysis of health and disease is portrayed as consisting in the confrontation of a set of criteria—a “definition”—with a set of cases, called instances of either “health” or “disease.” Apart from logical counter-arguments, there is no other way to refute an opponent’s definition than by providing counter-cases. As resorting to intensional stipulation (stipulation of meaning) is not ...

Naturalism has replaced Christianity as the main religion of the Western world. Though the teaching that natural evolutionary processes can account of the origin of all living species has never been proven, that teaching is central to the philosophy that now dominates Western scholarly thinking. Even evangelicals have become less willing to defend the early chapters of Genesis against the encro...

Abstract In this essay, we put forth a novel solution to Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, utilizing recent work done by Duncan Pritchard on radical skepticism. Key the success of argument is doubting reliability one’s cognitive faculties. We argue (viz. and Wittgenstein) that faculties constitutes hinge commitment, thus exempt from rational evaluation. turn, naturalist who ...

Many boundaries between objects in the world project onto curves in an image. However, boundaries involving natural objects (e.g., trees, hair, water, smoke) are often unworkable under this model because many pixels receive light from more than one object. We propose a technique for estimating alpha, the proportion in which two colors mix to produce a color at the boundary. The technique extend...