Peter Forrest

Biographic Data

ID1051008
NAMEPeter Forrest
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMEForrest
SIGNATUREFORREST P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of New England
ORCID0000-0002-5575-0664
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS18
WORKS AS AUTHOR19
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • In defence of Rebel Angel Theodicy

    Open AccessPeter ForrestARTICLEReligious Studies2026References: 13

    Rebel Angel Theodicy – often called Satan Theodicy – is the thesis that horrendous evils are directly or indirectly caused by angels who disobeyed God. In this article, I defend it, developing Gary Emberger’s suggestion that they influenced the course of evolution. After defending speculative theodicy, I expound Rebel Angel Theodicy and reply to seven objections that explicate the widespread judgement of implausibility: 1. That the existence of a…

  • The Natural Theology of Beauty, and the Glory of Love

    Open AccessPeter ForrestARTICLESophia2022

  • Purpose in the Universe

    Peter ForrestARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2016

  • Replying to the anti-God challenge

    Open AccessPeter ForrestARTICLEReligious Studies2012

    Several authors, including Stephen Law in this journal, have argued that the case for an evil God is (about) as strong as for a good God. In this article I take up the challenge on behalf of theists who, like Richard Swinburne, argue for an agent of unrestricted power and knowledge as the ultimate explanation of all contingent truths. I shall argue that an evil God is much less probable than a good one. I do so by (1) distinguishing the analogica…

  • The Evidence for God

    Peter ForrestARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2012

    Book Review| October 01 2012 The Evidence for God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined Moser, Paul K., The Evidence for God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. x + 280 pp. Peter Forrest Peter Forrest Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 622–625. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1630876 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio S…

  • A World for Us

    Peter ForrestARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2009

    Journal Article A World for Us: the Case for Phenomenalistic Idealism – John Foster Get access A World for Us: the Case for Phenomenalistic Idealism. John Foster, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 261. Price £35.00.) Peter Forrest Peter Forrest University of New England, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 237, October 2009, Pages 740–743, https…

  • Collective Guilt; Individual Shame

    Open AccessPeter Forrest, Peter V ForrestARTICLEMidwest Studies in Philosophy2006

    I start with a problem that has received some attention in the literature, and which usually arises in the context of serious past wrongs such as the genocide of the Tasmanians, various massacres, and the sustained attempt to destroy Aboriginal culture and language. (As an Australian I use Australian examples to avoid appearing to be censorious.) The problem is also of considerable importance in the philosophical understanding and evaluation of r…

  • Universals as Sense-data

    Open AccessPeter Forrest, Peter V ForrestARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2005Cited by: 5

  • The Incarnation

    Open AccessPeter ForrestARTICLEReligious Studies2000

    As a preliminary, I shall clarify the kenotic position by arguing that a position which is often called kenotic is actually a quasi-kenotic version of the classical account, according to which Jesus had normal divine powers but chose not to exercise them. After this preliminary, I discuss three problems with the strict kenotic account. The first is that kenosis conflicts with the standard list of attributes considered essential to God. The second…

  • In Defence Of The Phase Space Picture

    Open AccessPeter ForrestARTICLESynthese1999References: 7

  • Divine Fission

    Open AccessPeter ForrestARTICLEReligious Studies1998

    This paper is a contribution to the programme of moderating Social Trinitarianism to achieve a fairly orthodox result. I follow Swinburne in relying heavily on divine thisnessless and in the important speculation that the Trinity arose from a primordial ‘unitarian’ God. In this paper I explain why I disagree with Swinburnes's account of how the Trinity came into being and I propose an alternative in which the primordial God fissions into three di…

  • God without the Supernatural

    Michael B Wakoff, Peter Forrest et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1998

  • A Miller’s Tale

    Open AccessDavid Oldroyd, Phil Dowe et al.ARTICLEMetascience1997

  • Is space-time discrete or continuous? ? An empirical question

    Open AccessPeter ForrestARTICLESynthese1995Cited by: 8References: 2

  • Aesthetic Understanding

    Peter ForrestARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1991Cited by: 2

  • The problem of representing incompletely ordered doxastic systems

    Open AccessPeter ForrestARTICLESynthese1989Cited by: 1References: 2

  • The Lehrer/Wagner theory of consensus and the zero weight problem

    Open AccessPeter Forrest, Peter V ForrestARTICLESynthese1985Cited by: 1

  • Occam’s Razor and Possible Worlds

    Peter Forrest, Peter V Forrest et al.ARTICLEThe Monist1982Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Occam's Razor and Possible Worlds Get access Peter Forrest Peter Forrest University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 65, Issue 4, 1 October 1982, Pages 456–464, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist198265431 Published: 17 December 2014

  • Reincarnation without Survival of Memory or Character

    Peter ForrestARTICLEPhilosophy East and West1978