Tag: "religion"

The Perplexing Nature of the Guide for the Perplexed

Mark Daniels introduces the most famous work of Moses Maimonides and asks – was he a philosopher, a heretic or a mystic?
[Issue 50: March/April 2005: Medieval Philosophy]

Talking About God

In which Mark Goldblatt starts off by discussing Thomas Aquinas and ends up by killing theology.
[Issue 50: March/April 2005: Medieval Philosophy]

Souls, Minds, Bodies and Planets (part 2)

In which Mary Midgley discusses the nature of consciousness and argues that the legacy of Descartes is disasterous for our view of ourselves and our planet.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004: Consciousness]

Dear Socrates

Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004: Dear Socrates]

Human Acts in Islamic Philosophy

Are our actions really free or are they determined by God’s will? Imadaldin Al-Jubouri on a controversy that divided Muslim philosophers.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004: Philosophy of Religion]

Nonbelief and Evil: Two Arguments for the Nonexistence of God by Theodore Drange

Charles Echelbarger explains the atheistic arguments of Theodore Drange.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004: Books]

Letter from Antony Flew on Darwinism and Theology

Professor Antony Flew, who is famous for his philosophical arguments in favour of atheism, has contributed these tantalising comments to the debate.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004: Philosophy of Religion]

Faith and Thought

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 47: August/September 2004: Editorial]

William Rowe

William Rowe is a professor of philosophy at Purdue University. Though an atheist, he spends much of his working life thinking about God. Nick Trakakis recently chatted with him about God and evil and other such theological hot potatoes.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004: Interview]

Can An Evolutionist Believe in God?

Steve Stewart-Williams says not.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004: Philosophy of Religion]

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