The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology

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Natural Theology and the Qur’an

Natural theology is reading the book of nature, not the book of revelation, for knowledge of God. Natural theology, as a category employed by practitioners, originated within the history of Christianity, as passages from the New Testament such as Romans 1:20 raised the possibility of knowledge about God without revelation. The best-known work of natural theology is William Paley’s (d. 1805 AD) ...

A Modern Natural Theology?

Forthcoming: The Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy The adaptive logic of moral luck

Moral luck is a puzzling aspect of our psychology: Why do we punish outcomes that were not intended (i.e. accidents)? Prevailing psychological accounts of moral luck characterize it as an accident or error, stemming either from a reevaluation of the agent’s mental state or from negative affect aroused by the bad outcome itself. While these models have strong evidence in their favor, neither can...

consciousness : A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind : Blackwell Reference Online

T. H. Huxley (1866) said ‘How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp.’ This is the famous ‘explanatory gap’. We have no conception of our physical or functional nature that allows us to understand how it could explain our subjective experie...