New Issue of Philo

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Here is the table of contents:

ARTICLES

PAUL PISTONE
Introduction

PETER BYRNE
Is Morality Undercut by Evolutionary Naturalism?

PAUL CHURCHLAND
is Evolutionary Naturalism Epistemologically Self-Defeating?

ROBIN COLLINS
God and the Laws of Nature

JOHN LESLIE
A Cosmos Existing Through Ethical Necessity

ANDREW MELNYK
Naturalism as a Philosophical Paradigm

GRAHAM OPPY
Craig's Kalam Cosmology

PETER VAN INWAGEN
Some Remarks on the Modal Ontological Argument

WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT
Two (or Maybe One and a Half) Cheers for Perfect Being Theology

Rauser on Copan on Divinely Mandated Genocide in the Old Testament

Randal Rauser (Taylor Seminary) has written a nice reply to Paul Copan's defense of divinely-commanded genocide in the Old Testament: "'Let Nothing that Breathes Remain Alive.' On the Problem of Divinely Commanded Genocide." Philosophia Christi 11:1 (2009), pp. 27-41. The article can be found here.

HT: Sarah Schoonmaker

Job Offer Accepted.

Hi gang,

I'm happy to announce that I just accepted a tenure-track Philosophy gig at College of Undisclosed Location. Woo-hoo!

Best,
EA

Symposium on J.L. Schellenberg's Recent Work

Here is the announcement as found at Prosblogion:

This note is to announce a symposium dedicated to the recent work of J.L. Schellenberg, in particular his trilogy with Cornel U press - Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion (2005), Wisdom to Doubt: A Justification of Religious Skepticism (2007), The Will to Imagine: A Justification of Skeptical Religion (2009)

The one-day symposium will take place in Montreal, at Concordia University, Sunday, May 30th, 2010 -- and is part of the Canadian Philosophical Association's annual meeting. The main focus of the event will be over Schellenberg's provocative claim that (i) traditional religious outlooks, including theism, are no longer tenable, but that (ii) religion may well have a very interesting future that human beings, at this stage in their evolutionary development, can only begin to grasp.

Participants Include:

J.L Schellenberg (Mount St Vincent)

Paul Draper (Purdue University)

Stephen Wykstra (Calvin College)

J.J Macintosh (University of Calgary)

Reppert and Littlejohn: The Dialogue Continues on the Argument from Reason

Here and here. It appears to me that the substantive dialectical moves have been exhausted, and that the theistic Argument from Reason is a failure. By that I mean that it fails to provide evidence that would even slightly favor theism over naturalism.

A Modal Cosmological Argument for Atheism

Consider the following principle:  WEAK PMC: Possibly, every concrete object (and aggregate of such) that has an originating or sustaining e...