Dewi Zephaniah Phillips

CSPR; Religion and Hume's Legacy - Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion Dewi Zephaniah Phillips 1999 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: D. Z. Phillips is Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University and Rush Rhees Research Professor at the University of Wales, Swansea. Timothy Tessin is a freelance editor and an associate of the Hochschule fur Musik "Franz Liszt" in Weimar, Germany. Table of Contents: Introduction--D. Z. Phillips * Part I: Hume's Epistemological and Moral Critique * Playing Hume's Hand--Simon Blackburn * Morality and Religion: Towards Meeting Hume's Challenge--William H. Brenner * Voices in Discussion--D. Z. Phillips * Part II: Hume's "True Religion" * Hume's "Mitigated Skepticism": Some Implications for Religious Belief--M. Jamie Ferreira * Is There Anything Religious about Philo's "True Religion"?--Van A. Harvey * Is Hume's "True Religion" a Religious Belief?--D. Z. Phillips * Voices in Discussion--D. Z. Phillips * Part III: Hume on Miracles * Hume and the Miraculous--R. W. Beardsmore * Beardsmore on Hume on Miracles--Stephen T. Davis * Voices in Discussion--D. Z. Phillips * Part IV: Hume on Superstition * Hume on Superstition--Martin Bell * Passion and Artifice in Hume's Account of Superstition--Jane L. McIntyre * Voices in Discussion--D. Z. Phillips * Part V: Philosophy of Religion After Hume * Can Religion be Rational?--Anthony Flew * Overcoming Hume on His Terms--Nancey Murphy * Religion After Hume: Tightrope Walking in an Age of Enlightenment--B. R. Tilghman * Voices in Discussion--D. Z. Phillips * Part VI: Hume in Historical Context * Hume on Context, Sentiment, and Testimony in Religion--Peter Jones

Contributor Bio:  Phillips, Dewi Zephaniah D Z Phillips is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea, and Danworth Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate School, California. He has published widely in the philosophy of religion and ethics with some of his more recent books including "From Fantasy to Faith" (1991), "Interventions in Ethics" (1992), and "Wittgenstein and Religion" (1993). He is also editor of the Blackwell journal "Philosophical Investigatins."Contributor Bio:  Tessin, Timothy Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea.