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Over the years Nicholas Rescher has published various essays on religious issues from a philosophical point of view. The chapters of the present volume collect these together, joining to them four further pieces which appear here for the first time (Chapters 3, 7, and 8). While these studies certainly do not constitute a system of religious philosophy, they do combine to give a vivid picture of a well-defined point of view on the subject-the viewpoint of a Roman Catholic philosopher who, in the longstanding manner of this tradition, seeks to harmonize the commitments of faith with the fruits of inquiry proceeding under the auspices of reason.
List of contents
Table of contents:
Preface
Chapter 1: ON FAITH AND BELIEF
Chapter 2: THE ONTOLOGICAL PROOF REVISITED
Chapter 3: RELIGION AND PRAGMATISM
Chapter 4: PROCESS THEOLOGY
Chapter 5: GOD S PLACE IN PHILOSOPHY
Chapter 6: CAN A SCIENTIST BE SERIOUSABOUT RELIGION?
Chapter 7: DARWINISM AND THE INTELLIGENTDESIGN IN THE CONTEXT OF THEISM
Chapter 8: AQUINAS AND THE PRINCIPLEOF EPISTEMIC DISPARITY
Chapter 9: THOMISM: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Chapter 10: RESPECT FOR TRADITION
Chapter 11: IN MATTERS OF RELIGION
Index of Names
About the author
Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he also served for many years as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is a former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and has also served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Americna Metaphysical Society, the American G. W. Leibniz Society, and the C. S. Peirce Society. An honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has been elected to membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia Europaea), the Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Professor Rescher has received six honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated into other languages, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.
