04225nam 2200589 a 450 991078944120332120230721014330.01-283-12255-397866131225511-4411-3130-2(CKB)2670000000092797(EBL)711029(OCoLC)727649538(SSID)ssj0000524818(PQKBManifestationID)12186751(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524818(PQKBWorkID)10483723(PQKB)11251086(MiAaPQ)EBC711029(Au-PeEL)EBL711029(CaPaEBR)ebr10472167(CaONFJC)MIL312255(EXLCZ)99267000000009279720060619d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe philosophy of miracles[electronic resource] /David CornerLondon ;New York Continuumc20071 online resource (175 p.)Continuum studies in philosophyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8264-8887-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Conceptions of the miraculous -- Supernaturalistic conceptions of the miraculous -- Teleology and the miraculous -- Contextual criteria for the miraculous -- Miracles and the laws of nature -- The logical impossibility of a violation -- Violations as nonrepeatable counterinstances to natural law -- Objection #1: nonrepeatable counterinstances as falsifying a law -- Objection #2: identifying nonrepeatable counterinstances -- Objection #3: counterinstance as anomaly -- A supernaturalistic conception of natural law -- Identifying supernatural intrusions : an objection -- The concept of supernatural cause as empty -- A supernaturalistic response -- Miracles and causes -- What is a supernatural cause? -- Nature as causally open -- Trans-domain laws -- Dualism and the supernatural -- Supernatural explanation -- Nowell-Smith and predictive expansion -- Do explanations always rely on laws? -- Paul Dietl's response to Nowell-Smith's challenge -- Analysis of Dietl's response -- Problems with Dietl's response -- Divine agency in religious practice -- Miracle as basic action -- Must 'miracle' be conceived teleologically? -- Divine agency without supernatural causation -- Miracles and interaction -- Miracles and natural causes -- Miracle, mystery, and the God-of-the-gaps -- Miracle and divine agency -- The world as God's body -- Basic mental acts -- Psychokinesis as basic act -- Non-basic divine agency -- Divine agency and non-determined processes -- The causal joint -- Locating divine basic actions : how far down should we go? -- Divine manipulation of microprocesses : an alternative -- Arguments for divine basic actions at the macro level -- Quantum gaps and special divine agency -- A context for miracles -- Thankability and the miraculous -- Thankability and the subjective : an objection -- Due thankability -- Due thankability and apologetic -- Miracle, coincidence, and counterfactual -- Counterfactuals and basic actions.Philosophers who wish to argue for the rationality of belief in God frequently employ a 'god-of-the-gaps' strategy. This strategy consists in trying to find a phenomenon that cannot be explained by natural science, and insisting that it can be explained only by reference to the activity of God. Philosophical discussion of miracles usually revolves around the attempt to link a miracle to God in just this way. One of the problems with this approach is that it is very difficult to identify anything as being forever beyond the power of science to explain. Science continues to advance upon the terrContinuum studies in philosophy.MiraclesPhilosophical theologyMiracles.Philosophical theology.212Corner David1469679MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789441203321The philosophy of miracles3681221UNINA02044nam0 22003973i 450 VAN024165120220909010449.812N978331914397220220228d2015 |0itac50 baengCH|||| |||||Frontiers in Quantum Methods and Applications in Chemistry and PhysicsSelected Proceedings of QSCP-XVIII (Paraty, Brazil, December, 2013)editors M. A. C. Nascimento ... [et al.]ChamSpringer2015XXIII, 289 p.ill.24 cm001VAN01240722001 Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics210 ChamSpringer2000-29CHChamVANL001889572Biochimica. Citochimica. Istochimica22540Chimica generale22620.5Nanotecnologia22541Chimica fisica22NascimentoMarco A. C.VANV197698Springer <editore>VANV108073650Nascimento, Marco Antonio ChaerNascimento, Marco A. C.VANV197699Nascimento, Marco Antonio C.Nascimento, Marco A. C.VANV197700Nascimento, M. A. C.Nascimento, Marco A. C.VANV197701Nascimento, M.A.C.Nascimento, Marco A. C.VANV200750Nascimento, Marco A.C.Nascimento, Marco A. C.VANV200751ITSOL20240614RICAhttps://rd.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-14397-2E-book - Accesso al full-text attraverso riconoscimento IP di Ateneo, proxy e/o ShibbolethBIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE E TECNOLOGIE AMBIENTALI BIOLOGICHE E FARMACEUTICHEIT-CE0101VAN17NVAN0241651BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE E TECNOLOGIE AMBIENTALI BIOLOGICHE E FARMACEUTICHE17CONS e-book 2219 17BIB2219/14 14 20220228 Frontiers in Quantum Methods and Applications in Chemistry and Physics1939233UNICAMPANIA