The philosophy of miracles / David Corner.
Saved in:
Superior document: | Continuum studies in philosophy |
---|---|
: | |
TeilnehmendeR: | |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Continuum studies in philosophy.
|
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | viii, 162 p. |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
500711029 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(MiAaPQ)500711029 (Au-PeEL)EBL711029 (CaPaEBR)ebr10472167 (CaONFJC)MIL312255 (OCoLC)727649538 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Corner, David. The philosophy of miracles [electronic resource] / David Corner. London ; New York : Continuum, c2007. viii, 162 p. Continuum studies in philosophy Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Conceptions of the miraculous -- Supernaturalistic conceptions of the miraculous -- Teleology and the miraculous -- Contextual criteria for the miraculous -- Miracles and the laws of nature -- The logical impossibility of a violation -- Violations as nonrepeatable counterinstances to natural law -- Objection #1: nonrepeatable counterinstances as falsifying a law -- Objection #2: identifying nonrepeatable counterinstances -- Objection #3: counterinstance as anomaly -- A supernaturalistic conception of natural law -- Identifying supernatural intrusions : an objection -- The concept of supernatural cause as empty -- A supernaturalistic response -- Miracles and causes -- What is a supernatural cause? -- Nature as causally open -- Trans-domain laws -- Dualism and the supernatural -- Supernatural explanation -- Nowell-Smith and predictive expansion -- Do explanations always rely on laws? -- Paul Dietl's response to Nowell-Smith's challenge -- Analysis of Dietl's response -- Problems with Dietl's response -- Divine agency in religious practice -- Miracle as basic action -- Must 'miracle' be conceived teleologically? -- Divine agency without supernatural causation -- Miracles and interaction -- Miracles and natural causes -- Miracle, mystery, and the God-of-the-gaps -- Miracle and divine agency -- The world as God's body -- Basic mental acts -- Psychokinesis as basic act -- Non-basic divine agency -- Divine agency and non-determined processes -- The causal joint -- Locating divine basic actions : how far down should we go? -- Divine manipulation of microprocesses : an alternative -- Arguments for divine basic actions at the macro level -- Quantum gaps and special divine agency -- A context for miracles -- Thankability and the miraculous -- Thankability and the subjective : an objection -- Due thankability -- Due thankability and apologetic -- Miracle, coincidence, and counterfactual -- Counterfactuals and basic actions. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Miracles. Philosophical theology. Electronic books. ProQuest (Firm) Continuum studies in philosophy. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=711029 Click to View |
language |
English |
format |
Electronic eBook |
author |
Corner, David. |
spellingShingle |
Corner, David. The philosophy of miracles Continuum studies in philosophy Introduction -- Conceptions of the miraculous -- Supernaturalistic conceptions of the miraculous -- Teleology and the miraculous -- Contextual criteria for the miraculous -- Miracles and the laws of nature -- The logical impossibility of a violation -- Violations as nonrepeatable counterinstances to natural law -- Objection #1: nonrepeatable counterinstances as falsifying a law -- Objection #2: identifying nonrepeatable counterinstances -- Objection #3: counterinstance as anomaly -- A supernaturalistic conception of natural law -- Identifying supernatural intrusions : an objection -- The concept of supernatural cause as empty -- A supernaturalistic response -- Miracles and causes -- What is a supernatural cause? -- Nature as causally open -- Trans-domain laws -- Dualism and the supernatural -- Supernatural explanation -- Nowell-Smith and predictive expansion -- Do explanations always rely on laws? -- Paul Dietl's response to Nowell-Smith's challenge -- Analysis of Dietl's response -- Problems with Dietl's response -- Divine agency in religious practice -- Miracle as basic action -- Must 'miracle' be conceived teleologically? -- Divine agency without supernatural causation -- Miracles and interaction -- Miracles and natural causes -- Miracle, mystery, and the God-of-the-gaps -- Miracle and divine agency -- The world as God's body -- Basic mental acts -- Psychokinesis as basic act -- Non-basic divine agency -- Divine agency and non-determined processes -- The causal joint -- Locating divine basic actions : how far down should we go? -- Divine manipulation of microprocesses : an alternative -- Arguments for divine basic actions at the macro level -- Quantum gaps and special divine agency -- A context for miracles -- Thankability and the miraculous -- Thankability and the subjective : an objection -- Due thankability -- Due thankability and apologetic -- Miracle, coincidence, and counterfactual -- Counterfactuals and basic actions. |
author_facet |
Corner, David. ProQuest (Firm) ProQuest (Firm) |
author_variant |
d c dc |
author2 |
ProQuest (Firm) |
author2_role |
TeilnehmendeR |
author_corporate |
ProQuest (Firm) |
author_sort |
Corner, David. |
title |
The philosophy of miracles |
title_full |
The philosophy of miracles [electronic resource] / David Corner. |
title_fullStr |
The philosophy of miracles [electronic resource] / David Corner. |
title_full_unstemmed |
The philosophy of miracles [electronic resource] / David Corner. |
title_auth |
The philosophy of miracles |
title_new |
The philosophy of miracles |
title_sort |
the philosophy of miracles |
series |
Continuum studies in philosophy |
series2 |
Continuum studies in philosophy |
publisher |
Continuum, |
publishDate |
2007 |
physical |
viii, 162 p. |
contents |
Introduction -- Conceptions of the miraculous -- Supernaturalistic conceptions of the miraculous -- Teleology and the miraculous -- Contextual criteria for the miraculous -- Miracles and the laws of nature -- The logical impossibility of a violation -- Violations as nonrepeatable counterinstances to natural law -- Objection #1: nonrepeatable counterinstances as falsifying a law -- Objection #2: identifying nonrepeatable counterinstances -- Objection #3: counterinstance as anomaly -- A supernaturalistic conception of natural law -- Identifying supernatural intrusions : an objection -- The concept of supernatural cause as empty -- A supernaturalistic response -- Miracles and causes -- What is a supernatural cause? -- Nature as causally open -- Trans-domain laws -- Dualism and the supernatural -- Supernatural explanation -- Nowell-Smith and predictive expansion -- Do explanations always rely on laws? -- Paul Dietl's response to Nowell-Smith's challenge -- Analysis of Dietl's response -- Problems with Dietl's response -- Divine agency in religious practice -- Miracle as basic action -- Must 'miracle' be conceived teleologically? -- Divine agency without supernatural causation -- Miracles and interaction -- Miracles and natural causes -- Miracle, mystery, and the God-of-the-gaps -- Miracle and divine agency -- The world as God's body -- Basic mental acts -- Psychokinesis as basic act -- Non-basic divine agency -- Divine agency and non-determined processes -- The causal joint -- Locating divine basic actions : how far down should we go? -- Divine manipulation of microprocesses : an alternative -- Arguments for divine basic actions at the macro level -- Quantum gaps and special divine agency -- A context for miracles -- Thankability and the miraculous -- Thankability and the subjective : an objection -- Due thankability -- Due thankability and apologetic -- Miracle, coincidence, and counterfactual -- Counterfactuals and basic actions. |
isbn |
9781441131300 (electronic bk.) |
callnumber-first |
B - Philosophy, Psychology, Religion |
callnumber-subject |
BT - Doctrinal Theology |
callnumber-label |
BT97 |
callnumber-sort |
BT 297 C72 42007 |
genre |
Electronic books. |
genre_facet |
Electronic books. |
url |
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=711029 |
illustrated |
Not Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
200 - Religion |
dewey-tens |
210 - Philosophy & theory of religion |
dewey-ones |
212 - Existence, knowability & attributes of God |
dewey-full |
212 |
dewey-sort |
3212 |
dewey-raw |
212 |
dewey-search |
212 |
oclc_num |
727649538 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT cornerdavid thephilosophyofmiracles AT proquestfirm thephilosophyofmiracles AT cornerdavid philosophyofmiracles AT proquestfirm philosophyofmiracles |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(MiAaPQ)500711029 (Au-PeEL)EBL711029 (CaPaEBR)ebr10472167 (CaONFJC)MIL312255 (OCoLC)727649538 |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Continuum studies in philosophy |
is_hierarchy_title |
The philosophy of miracles |
container_title |
Continuum studies in philosophy |
author2_original_writing_str_mv |
noLinkedField |
_version_ |
1792330714876739585 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>03355nam a2200409 a 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">500711029</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">MiAaPQ</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20200520144314.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m o d | </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr cn|||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">060619s2007 enk sb 001 0 eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="010" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="z"> 2006020210</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="z">0826488870 (hbk.)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="z">9780826488879 (hbk.)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9781441131300 (electronic bk.)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(MiAaPQ)500711029</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(Au-PeEL)EBL711029</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(CaPaEBR)ebr10472167</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(CaONFJC)MIL312255</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)727649538</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">MiAaPQ</subfield><subfield code="c">MiAaPQ</subfield><subfield code="d">MiAaPQ</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">BT97</subfield><subfield code="b">.C72 2007</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">212</subfield><subfield code="2">22</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Corner, David.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">The philosophy of miracles</subfield><subfield code="h">[electronic resource] /</subfield><subfield code="c">David Corner.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="260" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">London ;</subfield><subfield code="a">New York :</subfield><subfield code="b">Continuum,</subfield><subfield code="c">c2007.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">viii, 162 p.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Continuum studies in philosophy</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="504" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Includes bibliographical references and index.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Introduction -- Conceptions of the miraculous -- Supernaturalistic conceptions of the miraculous -- Teleology and the miraculous -- Contextual criteria for the miraculous -- Miracles and the laws of nature -- The logical impossibility of a violation -- Violations as nonrepeatable counterinstances to natural law -- Objection #1: nonrepeatable counterinstances as falsifying a law -- Objection #2: identifying nonrepeatable counterinstances -- Objection #3: counterinstance as anomaly -- A supernaturalistic conception of natural law -- Identifying supernatural intrusions : an objection -- The concept of supernatural cause as empty -- A supernaturalistic response -- Miracles and causes -- What is a supernatural cause? -- Nature as causally open -- Trans-domain laws -- Dualism and the supernatural -- Supernatural explanation -- Nowell-Smith and predictive expansion -- Do explanations always rely on laws? -- Paul Dietl's response to Nowell-Smith's challenge -- Analysis of Dietl's response -- Problems with Dietl's response -- Divine agency in religious practice -- Miracle as basic action -- Must 'miracle' be conceived teleologically? -- Divine agency without supernatural causation -- Miracles and interaction -- Miracles and natural causes -- Miracle, mystery, and the God-of-the-gaps -- Miracle and divine agency -- The world as God's body -- Basic mental acts -- Psychokinesis as basic act -- Non-basic divine agency -- Divine agency and non-determined processes -- The causal joint -- Locating divine basic actions : how far down should we go? -- Divine manipulation of microprocesses : an alternative -- Arguments for divine basic actions at the macro level -- Quantum gaps and special divine agency -- A context for miracles -- Thankability and the miraculous -- Thankability and the subjective : an objection -- Due thankability -- Due thankability and apologetic -- Miracle, coincidence, and counterfactual -- Counterfactuals and basic actions.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="533" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Miracles.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Philosophical theology.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="655" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Electronic books.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="710" ind1="2" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ProQuest (Firm)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="830" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Continuum studies in philosophy.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=711029</subfield><subfield code="z">Click to View</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |