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n.22; theological scepticism of
79–84, 94; and solitary proposed
explanations, 121, 122–25
social norms, 140, 147–48
social psychology, 173 n.29
solitary proposed explanations, 31,
111, 121–25
spurious unifi cation, 29–30, 43–44,
141. See also empirical content.
states of affairs. See events and states of
affairs.
Steinhardt, Paul J., 175 n.87
Stoney, G. J., 172 n.3
Stove, D. C., 175 n.97
subdoxastic venture, 38. See also acceptance
and belief.
suboptimality arguments, 83, 85–88,
88–97 See also optimality condition.
supernatural science. See science, supernatural.
Swinburne, Richard: on background
knowledge, 128–31, 184 n.53;
on coherence of theism, 49–50,
101–2; on complete explanations,
175 n.103 ; and confi rmation
theory, 23–26, 79, 111, 171 n.35,
183 n.33; design argument of, 60,
67, 70–71, 121, 124, 176 n.4;
on divine eternity, 174 n.66; on
divine immutability, 174 n.66; as
evidentialist, 135; on fi ne-tuning
argument, 70–71, 177 n.42; on
God’s purpose in creating, 174
n.43; inductive arguments of,
102–8; on intentional explanations,
9, 150–51, 177 n.33; and
justifi cationism, 111, 182 n.45;
on positing a poltergeist, 42–43,
45, 128–29; on principle of credulity,
181 n.29; on probability
of theism, 106–7, 181 n.24; on
religious experience, 107, 181
n.29; on simplicity, 71, 132–33,
136, 179 n.33
syllogism, practical. See practical syllogism
T
Taylor, Richard, 150
teleological argument. See design argument.
testability, 31, 63, 116–26, 182 n.1. See
also theistic explanations: falsifi -
ability of.
Thagard, Paul R., 133–34, 183 n.26,
183 n.39, 184 n.77
theism: coherence of, 46–51, 92; probability
of, 106–7, 181 n.24; as
research programme, 131–32
theistic explanations: apparent redundancy
of, 64, 176 n.19; a priori
rejection of, 5–7; and background
knowledge (see background
knowledge); danger of accommodation,
141–42 (see also theistic
explanations: fl exibility of); de facto
objections to, 9–10, 11–13, 20–21,
29–30, 77, 81, 102; as explanations
of last resort, 17, 146; falsifi ability
of, 15–16, 169 n.80 (see also testability);
fl exibility of, 14 (see also
theistic explanations: danger of
accommodation); informativeness
of (see informativeness); in principle
objections to, 10, 13–17, 20–21,
29–30, 77, 81, 102; and intermediate
causal mechanisms, 52–53; as
intentional explanations, 33, 40;
and miracles (see miracles); and
natural explanations, 57–58, 64,
66–71; no victory by default, 79–80,
111; ontological economy of (see
ontological economy); optimality
condition applied to (see optimality
condition); and past explanatory
success (see past explanatory success);
silver bullet against, 13, 101–2,
143–44; simplicity of (see simplicity);
suboptimality arguments against (see
suboptimality arguments); testability
of (see testability). See also basic
actions; explanations: theistic and
religious.
theodicies, and defences, 134–35
theological correctness, 20. See also
God: concepts of
theological scepticism. See scepticism:
theological.
theology: folk (see folk theology);
twentieth-century, 10; and physics,
38–39
theoretical explanations. See explanations:
theoretical.
theories and hypotheses, 23
theories of religion: intellectualist, 7;
Wittgensteinian, 36, 168 n.47
Thomson, J. J, 34, 109, 117, 120, 172
n.3, 185 n.101