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What derivations cannot do

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

GRAHAM OPPY
GRAHAM OPPY*
Affiliation:
School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Menzies Building, 20 Chancellor's Walk, Monash University VIC 3800, Australia e-mail: graham.oppy@monash.
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Abstract

I think that there is much about contemporary philosophy of religion that should change. Most importantly, philosophy of religion should be philosophy of religion, not merely philosophy of theism, or philosophy of Christianity, or philosophy of certain denominations of Christianity, or the like. Here, however, I shall complain about one fairly narrow aspect of contemporary philosophy of religion that really irks me: its obsession with derivations that have as their conclusion either the claim that God exists or the claim that God does not exist. I shall work myself up by degrees.

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Religious Studies , Volume 51 , Special Issue 3: Religious Studies at 50 , September 2015 , pp. 323 - 333
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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