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New Waves in Philosophy of Religion

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new-waves-in-philosophy-of-religionThe book New Waves in Philosophy of Religion has been published by Palgrave MacMillan last December as part of its New Waves in Philosophy anthology series. The series aims to “gather the young and up-and-coming scholars in philosophy to give their view of the subject now and in the years to come, and to serve a documentary purpose.”

New Waves in Philosophy of Religion, edited by Y. Nagasawa & E. Wielenberg, discusses the “perennial problems and emerging issues from refreshingly new points of view and develop original ideas. It addresses such topics as: divine attributes, the origin of the universe, evolution and design, implications and puzzles of religious doctrines, morality and God, and the meaning of life.”

Contents of the book is as follows:

  • Introduction
    Yujin Nagasawa (University of Birmingham, UK) and Erik J. Wielenberg (DePauw University, USA)
  • Chapter 1: A New Definition of ‘Omnipotence’ in Terms of Sets
    Daniel J. Hill (University of Liverpool, UK)
  • Chapter 2: Can God Choose a World at Random?
    Klaas J. Kraay (Ryerson University, Canada)
  • Chapter 3: Why is there Anything at All?
    T. J. Mawson (Oxford University, UK)
  • Chapter 4: Programs, Bugs, DNA and a Design Argument
    Alexander R. Pruss (Georgetown University, USA)
  • Chapter 5: The ‘Why Design?’ Question
    Neil A. Manson (University of Mississippi, USA)
  • Chapter 6: Divine Command Theory and the Semantics of Quantified Modal Logic
    David Efird (University of York, UK)
  • Chapter 7: Divine Desire Theory and Obligation
    Christian B. Miller (Wake Forest University, USA)
  • Chapter 8: The Puzzle of Prayers of Thanksgiving and Praise
    Daniel Howard-Snyder (Western Washington University, USA)
  • Chapter 9: A Participatory Model of the Atonement
    Tim Bayne (University of Oxford, UK) and Greg Restall (University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • Chapter 10: Basic Human Worth: Religious and Secular Perspectives
    Christopher J. Eberle (United States Naval Academy, USA)
  • Chapter 11: Imperfection as Sufficient for a Meaningful Life: How Much is Enough?
    Thaddeus Metz (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)