Index A abduction: <strong>and</strong> induction, 102–8; Peirce’s schema for, 21, 23, 28, 30, 50, 73, 80–81, 86, 98, 108–9, 118; problem of, 36–38, 108–10, 112–13, 188 n.60 acceptance <strong>and</strong> belief, 37–38, 125, 171 n.37, 173 n.26 accommodation <strong>and</strong> assimilation, 141–42 actual explanations. See explanations: proposed, potential, <strong>and</strong> actual. actualism, in geology, 136. See also vera causa doctrine. adequacy, causal. See causal adequacy. adequate explanations. See explanations: st<strong>and</strong>ards of adequacy. ad hoc explanations. See explanations: ad hoc. affi rming the consequent, 109 Agassiz, Louis, 12 akrasia. See weakness of will. al-Farabi, Abu Nasr, 8 Als<strong>to</strong>n, William P., 47–48, 139, 173 n.27 Amar, Shlomo, 60 analogy, argument from, 180 n.16. See also God: analogical language regarding Anscombe, G. E. M., 186 n.6 antirealism. See realism <strong>and</strong> antirealism. anthropomorphism in God-concepts, 20 apparitions. See Medjugorje. Aquinas, Thomas: on analogical language, 47–48; on concepts of God, 46; on God <strong>and</strong> evil, 173 n.40; on on<strong>to</strong>logical economy, 137; on theistic explanations, 8, 176 n.19. argument: from analogy (see analogy: argument from); from design (see design argument); from evil (see evil: argument from) arguments <strong>and</strong> explanations. See explanations: <strong>and</strong> arguments; practical syllogism; intentional explanations: as arguments. Aris<strong>to</strong>telian philosophy, 176 n.20 assimilation. See accommodation <strong>and</strong> assimilation astronomy, P<strong>to</strong>lemaic. See P<strong>to</strong>lemaic astronomy. atheism, methodological, 168 n.28. See also methodological naturalism. a<strong>to</strong>mism, 135, 184 n.89 Audi, Robert, 154–55, 187 n.41 auxiliary hypotheses. See explanations: <strong>and</strong> auxiliary hypotheses. Ayer, A. J., 35–36 B Babylonian Exile, 67–68 background knowledge, 39, 126–31, 184 n.53 Banner, Michael C., 114, 172 n.20 barber paradox, 94 Barth, Karl, 10 Bartholomew, Michael, 132 basic actions, 52, 85, 139–40, 179 n.22, 185 n.107 Bayes’s theorem, 24, 106, 111, 115, 181 n.23. See also confi rmation theory. Beaudoin, John, 179 n.33 belief <strong>and</strong> acceptance. See acceptance <strong>and</strong> belief. belief-desire thesis. See intentional explanations: belief-desire thesis.
204 Index Bentham, Jeremy, 113 Berger, Peter L., 168 n.28 best explanation. See inference <strong>to</strong> the best explanation. best possible world, 91–94 biblical prophets See prophets, biblical. big bang hypothesis, 53, 56–57, 72, 175 nn.85, 87, 178 n.47 Bishop, John, 38, 173 n.26 Book of Mormon. See Mormon, Book of. Bosnia-Herzegovina. See Medjugorje. boson. See Higgs boson. Boxing Day tsunami. See tsunami, Boxing Day. Brauer, Matthew J., 9–11 brute facts, 67, 111, 176 n.107 Buckl<strong>and</strong>, William, 12 C Calvin, John, 141 Carrier, R. C., 132 Cartesian philosophy, 176 n.20 cathode rays, 34, 172 n.2 causal adequacy, 186 n.2 causal deviance. See intentional explanations: <strong>and</strong> causal deviance. causal overdetermination, 170 n.14 causal preemption, 22–23, 170 n.14 causal thesis. See intentional explanations: causal thesis. causation: counterfactual defi nitions of, 54–55; divine, 53–58; event, 176 n.23; Humean defi nitions of, 53–54, 61–62, 161–64; <strong>and</strong> independent specifi cation criterion, 178 n.14; <strong>and</strong> laws, 53–54, 161; <strong>and</strong> mechanism, 52–53; <strong>and</strong> occasionalism (see occasionalism); regularity defi nitions of, 53–54, 61–62, 161–64; singularist defi nitions of, 61–63, 108; ubiquity of divine, 45, 57–58. See also explanations: causal; intentional explanations: causal thesis. causes, primary <strong>and</strong> secondary, 57, 64–65 chance. See explanations: <strong>and</strong> chance. character. See intentional explanations: <strong>and</strong> character of the agent. Cioffi , Frank, 116 Clay<strong>to</strong>n, Philip, 60 Cohen, L. Jonathan, 37, 173 n.26, 186 nn.8, 17, 21 coherence of theism. See theism: coherence of Collins, Robin, 23, 79 Colyvan, Mark, 175 n.75 concurrentism, 177 n.28. See also occasionalism. confi rmation theory: <strong>and</strong> explanationism, 111–12; <strong>and</strong> theism, 79, 82, 124, 132; <strong>and</strong> theory acceptance, 23–26, 105–6, 111–12, 115, 183 n.33. See also justifi cationism. conservationism, 177 n.28. See also occasionalism. consilience, dynamic, 183 n.26 context: of discovery, 10; of justifi cation, 10 Cornman, James. 171 n.44 corroboration: heuristic account of, 121; his<strong>to</strong>rical account of, 121–22; <strong>and</strong> Nicod’s criterion, 121 cosmological argument, 45–46, 173 n.41 Couvalis, George, 185 n.91 Craig, William Lane, 72, 178 n.47 creation s<strong>to</strong>ry, 89–90, 139–40 creationism, 8, 12, 16, 89–90. See also intelligent design theory. credulity, principle of. See principle of credulity. Cupitt, Don, 36. D Dan<strong>to</strong>, Arthur C., 188 n.61 Dark Sucker Theory, 126–27, 183 n.38 Darwin, Charles: objections <strong>to</strong> theistic explanations, 13–14, 88, 169 n.71; on the origin of species, 1, 11, 26–27, 180 n.15; <strong>and</strong> suboptimality arguments, 86; on the vera causa doctrine, 127 Davidson, Donald: belief-desire thesis of, 149–51; causal thesis of, 51, 148–49, 186 n.6; on differing reasons for action, 187 n.40; on explanations <strong>and</strong> laws, 62, 162– 64, 188 n.63; on intentions, 186 nn.17, 18; on principle of charity, 152; on pro attitudes, 46, 149; on weakness of will, 158 Davis, Lawrence D., 186 n.8 Dawkins, Richard, 14, 16, 58 deduction. See explanations: deductivist view of de fac<strong>to</strong> objections. See theistic explanations: de fac<strong>to</strong> objections <strong>to</strong>
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