Contents Of Recent Issues

Volume 3, Number 2
Fall-Winter 2000

Editorial

 "Defending Naturalism" - Keith Parsons

Papers

"Methodological Naturalism and Philosophical Naturalism: Clarifying the Connection" - Barbara Forrest 

"Methodological Naturalism vs. Methodological Realsim" - Theodore Schick, Jr.

"The Fine-tuning Argument Revisited" - Theodore M. Drange

"Natural Explanations for the Anthropic Coincidences" - Victor J. Stenger

"The Failure of Supernatural Hypotheses" - Lewis Vaughn

"Perceiving God and Realism" - Peter Byrne

Book Reviews

Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe, by Michael J. Denton.  
Reviewed by Mark I. Vuletic

Suffering Belief: Evil and the Anglo-American Defense of Theism, by A. Weisberger.  Reviewed by Graham Oppy

Volume 3, Number 1
Spring-Summer 2000

Editorial

Ongoing Debates - Keith M. Parsons, Editor

Papers

Why God Cannot Think: Kant, Omnipresence, and Consciousness - Matt McCormick

Is There a Moral Obligation to Obey God? --Owen McLeod

Plantinga and Wittgenstein on Properly Basic Beliefs --Basil Smith

Discussion

The Rationality of Resurrection for Christians: A Rejoinder --Stephen T. Davis

Christianity and the Rationality of Resurrection --Michael Martin

Quantum Cosmology, Theistic Philosophical Cosmology, and the Existence Question --George Nakhnikian

Concerning the Metaphysical Necessity of the Universe Beginning Uncaused: A Reply to George Nakhnikian -- Quentin Smith

Reply to Parsons and Lippard on the Argument from Reasons --Victor Reppert

Further Reflections on the Argument from Reason --Keith M. Parsons

Book Reviews

The Eternal Footman by James Morrow
Reviewed by Craig White

Volume 2, Number 2
Fall-Winter 1999

Editorial

The Big Issues - Keith Parsons

Papers

Can an Ancient Argument of Carneades on Cardinal Virtues and Divine Attributes be Used to Disprove the Existence of God? - Douglas Walton

Dying for It - R. Harwood

On Some Criticisms of Hume's Principle of Proportioning Cause to Effect - John Beaudoin

The Kalam Cosmological Argument and the Possibility of an Actually Infinite Future - Erik Sotnak

Richard Swinburne's Arguments - Paul Edwards

Book Reviews

God, Reason and Theistic Proofs by Stephen T. Davis
Reviewed by Basil Smith

God and Inscrutable Evil by David O'Connor
Reviewed by Peter Hutcheson

The Psychological Origins of the Resurrection Myth by Jack A. Kent
Reviewed by Antony Flew

Is There a God? by Richard Swinburne
Reviewed by Austin Dacey

Volume 2, Number 1
Spring-Summer 1999

Editorial

Uncovering the Other Side of the Debate - Keith Parsons

Papers

Must the Past Have a Beginning? - Wes Morriston

Are the Gods Apolitical? - E.M. Fales

Discussion

The Argument from Reason - Victor Reppert

Historical but Indistinguishable Differences: Some Notes on Victor Reppert's Paper - Jim Lippard

Is Belief in the Resurrection Rational? A Response to Michael Martin - Stephen T. Davis

Reply to Davis - Michael Martin

Book Reviews

The Last Word  Thomas Nagel

Objectivity: The Obligations of Impersonal Reason by Nicholas Rescher
Reviewed by Keith M. Parsons

The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee Strobel
Reviewed by Jeffery Jay Lowder

Volume 1, Number 2
Fall-Winter 1998

Editorial

Debating Naturalism - Keith Parsons

Papers

On Being a Secularist All the Way Down - Kai Nielsen

Reflective Equilibrium and the Contemplative Ideal of Knowledge - Isaac Nevo

Legor et Legar: Schopenhauer's Atheistic Morality - Timothy J. Madigan

Incompatible-Properties Arguments: A Survey - Theodore M. Drange

Book Reviews

Restoring Pride: The Lost Virtue of Our Age by Richard Taylor
Reviewed by Paul B. Cliteur

The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom by Gerald L. Schroeder
Reviewed by Graham Oppy

The God of Spinoza: A Philosophical Study by B. Richard Mason
Philosophical Essays: Antony Flew edited by John Shosky
Reviewed by J. James Birx

Volume 1, Number 1
Spring-Summer, 1998

Editorial

Why Philo? - Keith M. Parsons

Papers

First Things First: Toward a Minimalistic Definition of Humanism - Paul Kurtz

Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology - Adolph Grunbaum

R.M. Adams's Theodicy of Grace - Richard Gale

Naturalism and Religion: Must Naturalistic Explanations Explain Religion Away? - Kai Nielsen

Why the Resurrection Is Initially Improbable - Michael Martin

Why Steven Hawking's Cosmology Precludes a Creator - Quentin Smith

The `Big Bang' Argument for the Existence of God - Theodore Schick, Jr.

Nonbelief vs. Lack of Evidence: Two Atheological Arguments - Theodore M. Drange

Book Reviews