Robert Oakes

Datos Biográficos

ID6284549
NOMBRERobert Oakes
NOMBRESRobert
APELLIDOOakes
FIRMAOAKES R
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS9
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1981
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2019
ÍNDICE H1

  • Science for Loss and Damage. Findings and Propositions

    Open AccessReinhard Mechler, Elisa Calliari et al.CHAPTERLoss and Damage from Climate Change2019

    The debate on “Loss and Damage” (L&D) has gained traction over the last few years. Supported by growing scientific evidence of anthropogenic climate change amplifying frequency, intensity and duration of climate-related hazards as well as observed increases in climate-related impacts and risks in many regions, the “Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage” was established in 2013 and further supported through the Paris Agreement in 2015…

  • Culture, climate change and mobility decisions in Pacific Small Island Developing States

    Open AccessRobert D Oakes, Robert OakesARTICLEPopulation and Environment2019Citada por: 9Referencias: 80

  • Theism and infallibilism

    Open AccessR J Oakes, Robert D Oakes et al.ARTICLEReligious Studies2007

    This essay constitutes a brief response to Martin Blaauw's paper, ‘Divorcing theism from infallibilism’, Religious Studies , 43 (2007), 349–354, in which he raises a number of thought-provoking objections to an earlier paper of mine which appeared in this journal: ‘Theism and infallibilism: a marriage made in heaven?’, Religious Studies , 40 (2004), 193–201. In the following counter-response, I hope to show that the argument developed in my origi…

  • Theism and infallibilism

    Open AccessR J Oakes, Robert D Oakes et al.ARTICLEReligious Studies2004

    Many philosophers ardently subscribe to what can be called the doctrine of public-world fallibilism (DPWF), i.e. the doctrine that human persons can never have infallible awareness of the truth of propositions such as that expressed by the sentence ‘There is an olive on the kitchen floor’. It has, of course, been standard to contrast such claims with epistemically tentative first-person phenomenological reports, e.g. ‘It seems to me that there is…

  • Reply to Michael Levine

    Open AccessR J Oakes, Robert D Oakes et al.ARTICLEReligious Studies1983

    I am grateful to Mr Levine for his careful and accurate rendering of the thesis which I presented and defended in my first paper on the topic of ‘self-authenticating religious experience’. As should be reasonably clear from his remarks, I defended therein the negative and somewhat modest epistemological thesis that even if it is inconceivable (or logically impossible) for there to occur self-authenticating experience of God, it is far from obviou…

  • Perishability, the actual world, and the existence of God

    Open AccessR J Oakes, Robert D Oakes et al.ARTICLEReligious Studies1983

    In this paper I shall formulate and defend what I take to be a fresh argument for the rationality of theistic belief. Specifically, I propose to establish the reasonableness of believing the following proposition to be true: Every possible world that includes the existence of perishable objects includes the existence of God. Success in this endeavour would, of course, ensure the reasonableness of believing that the possible world which happens to…

  • Religious Experience, Sense-perception and God's Essential Unobservability

    Open AccessR J Oakes, Robert D Oakes et al.ARTICLEReligious Studies1981

    While many philosophical theists have maintained (correctly or not) that there are data accessible to sense-perception – e.g., the ‘orderly processes of nature’, loving and benevolent human actions – which constitute evidence for the existence of God, it seems unproblematic that there could not conceivably occur sense-perceptions of God . Rather, the properties being God and being sense-perceivable are incompatible, i.e., are such that it is inco…