Terence Penelhum

Biographic Data

ID1008552
NAMETerence Penelhum
GIVEN NAMESTerence
FAMILY NAMEPenelhum
SIGNATUREPENELHUM T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Calgary
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1955
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX2

  • Religion after atheism

    Open AccessTerence PenelhumARTICLEReligious Studies2013

    This article reflects critically on some of the claims of J. L. Schellenberg's trilogy and on the fundamental decisions lying behind them. Some of the latter are found to be tied to his earlier work on atheism in ways that can be questioned

  • Rev. Dr Leslie Sumio Ryosho Kawamura (1935-2011)

    Open AccessTerence PenelhumARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…2011

  • Hume’s Moral Psychology

    Terence PenelhumCHAPTERThemes in Hume2000

    IN 1927, A. E. Taylor concluded his Leslie Stephen Lecture on ‘David Hume and the Miraculous’ with a judgement of Hume’s attitude to his philosophical work that has been held by many other readers of Hume: Taylor is here expressing an attitude to Hume that many of us have felt: that his philosophy does not deserve to be taken too much to heart, because for all his intellectual vitality and the disturbing character of much that he says, there is a…

  • Themes in Hume: The Self, the Will, Religion

    Terence PenelhumBOOKThemes in Hume2000

    Terence Penelhum has since the 1950s been a leading contributor to studies of the thought of David Hume; he now presents a selection of the best of his essays on Hume, most of them quite recent, three of them previously unpublished. The central themes of the book are selfhood, the will, and religious belief. Penelhum’s view of Hume will be fascinating for all who work on these themes, whether from an eighteenth-century or a twentieth-century pers…

  • Response to Chappell

    Open AccessTerence PenelhumARTICLEReligious Studies1997

    I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to Dr Chappell for the encomia he has so kindly included in his notice of my book. It was especially kind of him to include them when we appear to disagree so fundamentally on the two issues he has chosen to discuss. First, he does not think, as I do, that the world is religiously ambiguous. Second, he thinks that religious beliefs can be, and are, chosen, and I do not.Before beginning, I should pe…

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hume

    Open AccessJohn Biro, Alexander Rosenberg et al.BOOKThe Cambridge companion to Hume1993

    David Hume is, arguably, the most important philosopher ever to have written in English. Although best known for his contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion, Hume also made substantial and influential contributions to psychology and the philosophy of mind, ethics, the philosophy of science, political and economic theory, political and social history, and, to a lesser extent, aesthetic and literary theory. All fa…

  • The Word of Science: The Religious and Social Thought of C. A. Coulson David and Eileen Hawkin London, England: SCM Press, 1989. xii + 127 p

    Open AccessTerence PenelhumARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…1991

  • Butler

    J B Schneewind, Terence PenelhumARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1988

  • Sceptics, believers, and historical mistakes

    Open AccessTerence PenelhumARTICLESynthese1986References: 4

  • God and Skepticism

    Gary S Rosenkrantz, Gary Rosenkrantz et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1986

  • God and Skepticism

    William P Alston, Terence PenelhumARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1985

  • Scepticism, Sentiment, and Common Sense in Hume

    Open AccessTerence PenelhumARTICLEDialogue1985References: 2

    Norman Kemp Smith began his famous work on Hume by reminding us how difficult Hume is: not difficult to follow paragraph by paragraph, but difficult to interpret as a whole. He then went on to try to remedy this situation by offering an overall interpretation that essentially reversed the dominant reading of Hume as a sceptic, and argued instead that he is a naturalist —a thinker who views our beliefs, as well as our moral commitments, as product…

  • Problems of Cartesianism Thomas M. Lennon, John M. Nicholas, and John W. Davis, editors Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1982. Pp. 253

    Open AccessTerence PenelhumARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…1984

  • Natural Belief and Religious Belief in Hume's Philosophy

    Terence PenelhumARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1983Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Natural Belief and Religious Belief in Hume's Philosophy Get access Terence Penelhum Terence Penelhum University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 131, April 1983, Pages 166–181, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218743 Published: 01 April 1983

  • Reason, Spirits and Criteria

    Open AccessTerence PenelhumARTICLEDialogue1983References: 1

    These comments are a response to Professor John King-Farlow's criticism of three of my essays that have recently been reprinted in the volume Analytical Philosophy of Religion in Canada , edited by Mostafa Faghfoury. I shall try to present them in a way that is intelligible to those not familiar with the book; but, inevitably, the choice of topics will be determined by the particular disagreements between King-Farlow and myself that emerged there…

  • Illusions of Faith: A Critique of Non-Credal ReligionCarlos G. Prado Dubuque, Iowa and Toronto: Kendal-Hunt Publishing Company, 1980. Pp xii, 93

    Open AccessTerence PenelhumARTICLEDialogue1982

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  • Mystics and Scholars: The Calgary Conference on Mysticism 1976

    Dennis M Ahern, Henry Coward et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy East and West1978

  • The Analysis of Faith in St Thomas Aquinas

    Open AccessTerence PenelhumARTICLEReligious Studies1977

    My intent in this paper is to give an account of Aquinas' analysis of the nature of Christian faith, to indicate some difficulties to which it seems to me, and has seemed to others, to give rise, to try to evaluate the degree to which his analysis can suggest answers to those difficulties, and then to conclude with some general comments about the sources of those perplexities that still remain

  • Xi Self-Identity and Self-Regard

    Terence PenelhumCHAPTERIdentities of Persons1976

  • Hume

    Antony Flew, Terence PenelhumARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1976

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Hume. By Terence Penelhum. (London: Macmillan. 1975. Pp. 223. Price £6.95) Antony Flew Antony Flew Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 104, July 1976, Pages 268–270, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219021 Published: 01 July 1976

  • Hume

    Open AccessTerence PenelhumBOOKHume1975

  • Hume's Theory of the Self Revisited

    Open AccessTerence PenelhumARTICLEDialogue1975Cited by: 4References: 4

    This paper is in two parts. I begin the first part by presenting a brief resume of an account of Hume's Section "Of Personal Identity" which I offered at length in a paper first published twenty years ago. I shall then try to respond to some criticisms of my interpretation of that Section. The authors of these criticisms consider that Hume's account of personal identity is less sceptical and more defensible than I suggested it is. The purpose of …

  • Compte rendu / Review of book: Models for Divine Activity IAN T. Ramsey Toronto: Welch 1973. ix, 78. $6.95

    Open AccessTerence PenelhumARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…1974

  • Problems of religious knowledge

    Terence PenelhumBOOKProblems of religious knowledge.1971

  • Survival and Disembodied Existence

    Antony Flew, Terence PenelhumARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1971