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preemption, causal. See causal preemption.
presumption of naturalism, 146. See
also naturalism: methodological;
theistic explanations: as explanations
of last resort.
presumption of rationality, 151. See
also rationality: principle of.
Priest, Graham, 175 n.74
primary causes. See causes, primary and
secondary.
principle of charity, 152. See also rationality:
principle of.
principle of credulity, 181 n.29
pro attitudes, 46, 149. See also intentional
explanations: belief-desire
thesis.
probability, conceptions of, 24–25, 171
n.33. See also confi rmation theory;
Bayes’s theorem.
prophets, biblical, 68
proportioning cause to effect, 101, 179
n.33
proposed explanations. See explanations:
proposed, potential, and actual.
Pseudo-Dionysius, 47
Psillos, Stathis, 172 n.6
psychology: feline (see feline psychology);
folk (see folk psychology);
social (see social psychology)
Ptolemaic astronomy, 11, 171 n.35
Q
quantum mechanics, 43
Quine, W. V. , 2, 4–5, 27, 127, 144–45
Qur’an, 185 n.115
R
Ramanujan, Srinivasa, 10
Ratcliffe, Matthew, 140, 147–48
rationality principle. See rationality:
principle of
rational reconstruction, 33
rationality: criteria of, 89–90, 153;
presumption of (see presumption
of rationality); principle of, 40, 51,
74, 82–84, 108, 151–53, 162, 187
n.34
raven paradox, 103, 121–22, 182 n.16
realism and antirealism, 34–38, 41, 172
n.18, 177 n.37
Reichenbach, Hans, 35, 172 n.9
religion: and explanation (see explanations,
and religion); origin of (see
Index 209
origin of religion); theories of (see
theories of religion)
religious explanations, 19–20. See also
theistic explanations.
representational fallacy, 163
research programmes, 131–32, 166
retrodiction. See prediction: and retrodiction.
revelation, 9–11
Rosenbaum, Ron. 176 n.7
Rosenkrantz, Gary S., 174 n.66
Rowe, William L., 93–94
Rundle, Bede, 173 n.41
Ruse, Michael, 4
Russell’s paradox. See barber paradox.
Ryle, Gilbert, 186 n.6
S
sacred scripture. See scripture, sacred;
Qur’an; Mormon, Book of.
Salmon, Wesley C., 25
Scanlon, T. M.,186 n.10
scepticism: modal, 78–79, 94–96, 184
n.84; moral, 134; theological,
78–82, 95, 141
Schoen, Edward L., 47, 62–63
Schueler, G. F., 156–57, 187 n.34
Schutz, Alfred, 147–48, 185 n.1, 186
n.2
science, supernatural, 13
scripture, sacred, 140, 179 n.33, 185
n.115
Scriven, Michael, 188 n.61
secondary causes. See causes, primary
and secondary.
Sedgwick, Adam, 12
semantically anomalous propositions,
14. See also theistic explanations:
fl exibility of; theistic explanations:
danger of accommodation.
semantic realism, 172 n.6
Shanks, Niall, 12–13
silver bullet. See theistic explanations:
silver bullet against.
singular causal explanations. See causation:
singularist defi nitions of.
simplicity: divine, 46–47; explanatory
virtue of, 71, 132–36
Smith, Morton, 72–73
Smith, Quentin, 53–57, 178 n.53
Sobel, Howard, 26
Sober, Elliott: on critics of theistic
explanations, 169 n.80; on likelihood
principle, 105, 123, 181