Author: Weiru Liu
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
Keywords: reasoning, evidential, probabilistic, propositional
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-10-16
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 3790814148
ISBN-13: 9783790814149

Systematically provides the reader with a broad range of systems/research work to date that addresses the importance of combining numerical and symbolic approaches to reasoning under uncertainty in complex applications.

Author: Ernest Arthur Edghill
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: prophecy, value, evidential, inquiry
Number of Pages: 668
Published: 2006-07-09
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 1428643699
ISBN-13: 9781428643697

Being The Hulsean Prize Essay For 1904.

Author: Caroline Franks Davi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: experience, religious, force, evidential
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1989-09-28
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0198244363
ISBN-13: 9780198244363

This study examines the nature of religious experiences and whether they can be used as evidence for religious beliefs. Davis discusses the important philosophical issues raised by religious experience, such as the role of models and metaphors in descriptions of religious experience, and the way experiences in general are used as evidence for claims about the world. Using contemporary and classic sources from the world religions, she gives an account of different types of religious experience and, drawing extensively on psychological and sociological as well as philosophical literature, deals

Author: Caroline Franks Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: experience, religious, force, evidential
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1999-09-23
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0198250010
ISBN-13: 9780198250012

This study examines the nature of religious experiences and whether they can be used as evidence for religious beliefs. Davis discusses the important philosophical issues raised by religious experience, such as the role of models and metaphors in descriptions of religious experience, and the way experiences in general are used as evidence for claims about the world. Using contemporary and classic sources from the world religions, she gives an account of different types of religious experience and, drawing extensively on psychological and sociological as well as philosophical literature, deals

Authors:David A. Schum, Suzanne Starace,
Publisher: Northwestern University Pre
Keywords: reasoning, probabilistic, foundations, evidential
Number of Pages: 545
Published: 2001-02-14
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0810118211
ISBN-13: 9780810118218

In this work Schum develops a general theory of evidence as it is understood and applied across a broad range of disciplines and practical undertakings. He include insights from law, philosophy, logic, probability, semiotics, artificial intelligence, psychology and history.

Author: Thomas Dubay
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Keywords: theology, meet, science, beauty, power, evidential
Number of Pages: 365
Published: 1999-09
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0898707528
ISBN-13: 9780898707526

While everyone is delighted by beauty, and the more alive among us are positively fascinated by it, few are explicitly aware that we can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. Dubay explores the reasons why all of the most eminent physicists of the twentieth century agree that beauty is the primary standard for scientific truth. Likewise, the best of contemporary theologians are also exploring with renewed vigor the aesthetic dimensions of divine revelation. Honest searchers after truth can hardly fail to be impressed that these two disciplines, science and theology, so different

Author: Daniel Howard-Snyder
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: philosophy, religion, series, indiana, argument, evil, evidential
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1996-03-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0253210283
ISBN-13: 9780253210289

Is evil evidence against the existence of God? Even if God and evil are compatible, it remains hotly contested whether evil renders belief in God unreasonable. The Evidential Argument from Evil presents five classic statements on this issue by eminent philosophers and theologians and places them in dialogue with eleven original essays reflecting new thinking by these and other scholars. The volume focuses on two versions of the argument. The first affirms that there is no reason for God to permit either certain specific horrors or the variety and profusion of undeserved suffering. The second a