TIMOTHY PRITCHARD
Biographic Data
| ID | 9266455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | TIMOTHY PRITCHARD |
| GIVEN NAMES | TIMOTHY |
| FAMILY NAME | PRITCHARD |
| SIGNATURE | PRITCHARD T |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Miracles and violations
The claim that a miracle is a violation of a law of nature has sometimes been used as part of an a priori argument against the possibility of miracle, on the grounds that a violation is conceptually impossible. I criticize these accounts but also suggest that alternative accounts, when phrased in terms of laws of nature, fail to provide adequate conceptual space for miracles. It is not clear what a ‘violation’ of a law of nature might be, but thi…
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Miracles and violations
The claim that a miracle is a violation of a law of nature has sometimes been used as part of an a priori argument against the possibility of miracle, on the grounds that a violation is conceptually impossible. I criticize these accounts but also suggest that alternative accounts, when phrased in terms of laws of nature, fail to provide adequate conceptual space for miracles. It is not clear what a ‘violation’ of a law of nature might be, but thi…
A priori and a posteriori (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Karl Barth and Christian Theology (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Miracle (1 work) · Natural law (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Political science (1 work) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (1 work)