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15 I was myself much in the same frame of mind about the scope of ‘logic’, when
I wrote two articles of philosophical theology, of which I’m now quite ashamed,
in the Flew and MacIntyre volume mentioned in note 8 above.
16 For an excellent exposition, discussion and defence of Quine’s indispensability
argument for the reality of mathematical entities, see Mark Colyvan, The Indispensability
of Mathematics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
17 Flew and MacIntyre, New Essays, p. 54.
18 In O.H. Lee (ed.) Philosophical Essays for A.N. Whitehead (New York: Longmans,
1936), reprinted in Quine’s Ways of Paradox.
19 William Lane Craig, ‘Review of Smart and Haldane Atheism and Theism’, Ratio
(New Series) 9 (1998), 200–5.
20 See Lee Smolin, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (London: Weidenfeld and
Nicholson, 2000), p. 200.
21 I have been helped to be even more sceptical about the fine-tuning argument by
a paper by my one-time student and former colleague M.C. Bradley, ‘The Fine
Tuning Argument’, forthcoming in Religious Studies, and a draft article by the
same author, ‘The Fine Tuning Argument: The Bayesian Version’.
22 Inquiry, 2000.
23 John Leslie, Infinite Minds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
24 M.J. Behe, Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1996).
25 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.
26 See J.J.C. Smart, ‘Moral Values’, in Revue International de Philosophie 51(1997),
479–94. Because imperatives have a (recursive) semantics this account avoids
objections faced by expressivism. Nevertheless it has affinity to C.L. Stevenson,
who, however, confused semantics with pragmatics.
27 Gilbert Ryle, ‘Systematically Misleading Expressions’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian
Society, (1931–2).
28 John Hick (ed.), The Metaphor of God Incarnate (London: SCM Press, 1993).
29 New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
30 I am using the word ‘phenomenology’ in a down-to-earth sense, not as used in a
certain sort of philosophy descending from Husserl.
31 For a possible explanation of the illusory phenomena, see D.M. Armstrong, ‘The
Headless Woman Illusion and the Defence of Materialism’, Analysis 29, 48–9.
See also J.J.C. Smart, ‘The Identity Theory of Mind’, in the Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy. http//plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity
32 In particular, see Richard Swinburne, The Existence of God (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, revised edition, 1991).
33 Alvin Plantinga, Warrant and Proper Function, and Warranted Christian Belief
2nd edn (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).