By Steven Duncan
This publication is a reconstruction and interpretation of the improvement of analytic philosophy of faith in Britain and the U.S., with targeted connection with the controversy over the lifestyles of God and the matter of evil, over the last fifty years. It discusses Theism and Atheism; Neo-Thomism; the matter of non secular Language; The Argument from Evil and the Origins of Inductivism; The Inductivist Paradigm; The Ontological, Cosmological Argument and Teleological Arguments; Post-Deductivism; and The Philosophy of faith this present day. Steven M. Duncan's different courses contain A Primer of recent advantage Ethics (Upa, 1995) and The facts of the exterior global (Wipf and inventory, 2008). "A concise but rigorous and great assessment of many of the very important paintings that has been performed in analytic philosophy of faith in past times part century. it's going to end up worthwhile either to the pro thinker and the scholar of philosophy. this can be a remarkable book!"--Professor Paul Herrick
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