Richard M Gale
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1001897 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard M Gale |
| PRENOMES | Richard M |
| SOBRENOME | Gale |
| ASSINATURA | GALE R M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1960 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Muslims in Britain
The Philosophy of William James
This 2004 book is an accessible introduction to the full range of the philosophy of William James. It portrays that philosophy as containing a deep division between a Promethean type of pragmatism and a passive mysticism. The pragmatist James conceives of truth and meaning as a means to control nature and make it do our bidding. The mystic James eschews the use of concepts in order to penetrate to the inner conscious core of all being, including …
The Philosophy of William James
The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics
List of Contributors. Preface.1. Physics, Metaphysics, and Method in Newton's Dynamics: Lawrence Sklar.2. Causation: Wesley Salmon.3. What Events Are: Jonathan Bennett.4. Time, Temporality and Paradox, Richard M. Gale.5. A Thomist Metaphysics: John Haldane.6. The Concept of Ontological Catergory: a New Approach: Lorenz Puntel.7. Universals and Predication: Bruce Aune.8. Composition as a Fiction: Gideon Rosen and Cian Dorr.9. What Do We Refer To W…
The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics
The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics
The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics
Blackwell guide to metaphysics
The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics
The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics
A response to Oppy, and to Davey and Clifton
Our paper ‘A new cosmological argument’ gave an argument for the existence of God making use of the weak Principle of Sufficient Reason (W-PSR) which states that for every proposition p , if p is true, then it is possible that there is an explanation for p . Recently, Graham Oppy, as well as Kevin Davey and Rob Clifton, have criticized the argument. We reply to these criticisms. The most interesting kind of criticism in both papers alleges that t…
Swinburne on providence
My review of Swinburne's elaborate and ingenious higher-good type theodicy will begin with an examination of his argument for why the theist needs a theodicy in the first place. After a preliminary sketch of his theodicy and its crucial free-will plank, its rational-choice theoretic arguments will be critically scrutinized. Richard Swinburne Providence and the Problem of Evil . (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998). Pp. xiii + 263. £35.50 Hbk. £14.99 P…
FM Reviews
A new cosmological argument
We present a valid deductive cosmological argument for the necessary existence of a powerful and intelligent creator of the actual universe. Whereas traditional cosmological arguments had to employ a strong version of the principle of sufficient reason that held that every fact actually has an explanation, our argument can make do with the weak version of Duns Scotus according to which every fact possibly has an explanation. As a result, our argu…
Ellen Kappy Suckiel, Heaven's Champion
William James and the Willfulness of Belief
It was important to James's philosophy, especially his doctrine of the will to believe, that we could believe at will. Toward this end he argues in The Principles of Psychology that attending to an idea is identical with believing it, which, in turn, is identical with willing that it be realized. Since willing is identical with believing and willing is an intentional action, it follows by Leibniz's Law that believing also is an intentional action…
Ontological Arguments and Belief in God
The Overall Argument of Alston's Perceiving God
Alston's overall aim in Perceiving God is to show that we are rationally justified in believing that our apparent direct perceptions of God's presence (called ‘M-experiences’) are reliable and thus for the most part veridical, the objective, existentially-committed beliefs based on these experiences thereby being prima facie justified, subject to defeat by certain overriders supplied by some background religion. It is argued that our rational jus…
Why Alston's Mystical Doxastic Practice Is Subjective
A Reply to Paul Helm
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On the Existence and Nature of God
On the Nature and Existence of God
First published in 1991, Richard M. Gale's classic book is a response to and critique of new, contemporary arguments for the existence of God from analytical philosophers. Considering concepts including time, free will, personhood, actuality and the objectivity of experience, Gale evaluates the new versions of cosmological, ontological, pragmatic and religious experience arguments that emerged in the late-twentieth century. Presented in a fresh t…
Pragmatism Versus Mysticism
The best way to characterize the philosophy of William James is to say that it is basically deeply rooted in the blues. It is the soulful expression of someone who has paid his dues; someone who, like old wagonwheels, has been through it all; and, like good blues, the aim of his philosophy is therapeutic. While its immediate aim is to keep him sane and non-suicidal-to help him make it through the night-its larger one is to help him find his way t…
Freedom and the Free Will Defense
Lewis' Indexical Argument for World-Relative Actuality
David Lewis has shocked the philosophical community with his original version of extreme modal realism according to which “ every way that a world could possibly be is a way that some world is ”. Logical Space is a plenitude of isolated physical worlds, each being the actualization of some way in which a world could be, that bear neither spatiotemporal nor causal relations to each other. Lewis has given independent, converging arguments for this.…
William James and the Willfulness of Belief
It was important to James's philosophy, especially his doctrine of the will to believe, that we could believe at will. Toward this end he argues in The Principles of Psychology that attending to an idea is identical with believing it, which, in turn, is identical with willing that it be realized. Since willing is identical with believing and willing is an intentional action, it follows by Leibniz's Law that believing also is an intentional action…
Why Alston's Mystical Doxastic Practice Is Subjective
On the Nature and Existence of God
First published in 1991, Richard M. Gale's classic book is a response to and critique of new, contemporary arguments for the existence of God from analytical philosophers. Considering concepts including time, free will, personhood, actuality and the objectivity of experience, Gale evaluates the new versions of cosmological, ontological, pragmatic and religious experience arguments that emerged in the late-twentieth century. Presented in a fresh t…
Pragmatism Versus Mysticism
The best way to characterize the philosophy of William James is to say that it is basically deeply rooted in the blues. It is the soulful expression of someone who has paid his dues; someone who, like old wagonwheels, has been through it all; and, like good blues, the aim of his philosophy is therapeutic. While its immediate aim is to keep him sane and non-suicidal-to help him make it through the night-its larger one is to help him find his way t…
Ontological Arguments and Belief in God
Lewis' Indexical Argument for World-Relative Actuality
David Lewis has shocked the philosophical community with his original version of extreme modal realism according to which “ every way that a world could possibly be is a way that some world is ”. Logical Space is a plenitude of isolated physical worlds, each being the actualization of some way in which a world could be, that bear neither spatiotemporal nor causal relations to each other. Lewis has given independent, converging arguments for this.…
Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus
The Egocentric Particular and Token-Reflexive Analyses of Tense
Ta HAS often been argued that there is something subjective about the temporal perspectives ofpast, present, and future; that there is no now in nature except in relation to the tensed utterances of human beings. This supposedly follows from the fact that tensed verbs (as well as other temporal demonstratives), by which we indicate these temporal perspectives, are or token-reflexive words. The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate this argume…
Natural Law and Human Rights
Endorsing Predictions
Professor Ducasse on Determinism
What is Political Philosophy
What is Political Philosphy? - a collection of ten essays and lectures and sixteen book reviews written between 1943 and 1957 - contains some of Leo Strauss's most famous writings and some of his most explicit statements of the themes that made him famous. The title essay records Strauss's sole extended articulation of the meaning of political philosophy itself. Other essays discuss the relation of political philosophy to history, give an account…
Tensed Statements
Journal Article Tensed Statements Get access Richard M. Gale Richard M. Gale New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 12, Issue 46, January 1962, Pages 53–59, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216839 Published: 01 January 1962
Dewey and the Problem of the Alleged Futurity of Yesterday
The Natural Philosophy of Time
"A Reply to Smart, Mayo and Thalberg on "Tensed Statements
A Reply to Smart, Mayo and Thalberg on “Tensed Statements” Get access Richaed M. Gale Richaed M. Gale Vassar College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 53, October 1963, Pages 351–356, https://doi.org/10.2307/2955529 Published: 01 October 1963
The Egocentric Particular and Token-Reflexive Analyses of Tense
Ta HAS often been argued that there is something subjective about the temporal perspectives ofpast, present, and future; that there is no now in nature except in relation to the tensed utterances of human beings. This supposedly follows from the fact that tensed verbs (as well as other temporal demonstratives), by which we indicate these temporal perspectives, are or token-reflexive words. The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate this argume…
A Reply on the Alleged Futurity of Yesterday
Studies in Metaphilosophy
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Studies in Metaphilosophy. By Morris Lazerowitz. (London : Routledge. 1964. Pp. xii + 264. Price 35s). Richard M. Gale Richard M. Gale Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 15, Issue 61, October 1965, Pages 363–369, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218266 Published: 01 October 1965
Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus
The Language of Time
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Language of Time. By Richard M. Gale. (London : Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1968. Pp. viii + 240. Price 40s) K. W. Rankin K. W. Rankin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 75, April 1969, Pages 176–177, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217699 Published: 01 April 1969
Strawson's Restricted Theory of Referring
Journal Article Strawson’s Restricted Theory of Referring Get access Richard M. Gale Richard M. Gale University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 79, April 1970, Pages 162–165, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218087 Published: 01 April 1970
Kant's theory of time
A Reply to Oaklander
Lewis' Indexical Argument for World-Relative Actuality
David Lewis has shocked the philosophical community with his original version of extreme modal realism according to which “ every way that a world could possibly be is a way that some world is ”. Logical Space is a plenitude of isolated physical worlds, each being the actualization of some way in which a world could be, that bear neither spatiotemporal nor causal relations to each other. Lewis has given independent, converging arguments for this.…
Freedom and the Free Will Defense
Pragmatism Versus Mysticism
The best way to characterize the philosophy of William James is to say that it is basically deeply rooted in the blues. It is the soulful expression of someone who has paid his dues; someone who, like old wagonwheels, has been through it all; and, like good blues, the aim of his philosophy is therapeutic. While its immediate aim is to keep him sane and non-suicidal-to help him make it through the night-its larger one is to help him find his way t…
A Reply to Paul Helm
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On the Existence and Nature of God
On the Nature and Existence of God
First published in 1991, Richard M. Gale's classic book is a response to and critique of new, contemporary arguments for the existence of God from analytical philosophers. Considering concepts including time, free will, personhood, actuality and the objectivity of experience, Gale evaluates the new versions of cosmological, ontological, pragmatic and religious experience arguments that emerged in the late-twentieth century. Presented in a fresh t…
The Overall Argument of Alston's Perceiving God
Alston's overall aim in Perceiving God is to show that we are rationally justified in believing that our apparent direct perceptions of God's presence (called ‘M-experiences’) are reliable and thus for the most part veridical, the objective, existentially-committed beliefs based on these experiences thereby being prima facie justified, subject to defeat by certain overriders supplied by some background religion. It is argued that our rational jus…
Why Alston's Mystical Doxastic Practice Is Subjective
Ontological Arguments and Belief in God
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