Michael Peterson - Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion

In teaching and research, philosophy makes progress through argumentation and debate. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy provides a forum for students and their teachers to follow and participate in the debates that animate philosophy today in the western world. Each volume presents pairs of opposing viewpoints on contested themes and topics in the central subfields of philosophy. Each volume is edited and introduced by an expert in the field, and also includes an index, bibliography, and suggestions for further reading. The opposing essays, commissioned especially for the volumes in the series, are thorough but accessible presentations of opposing points of view.

1. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion
   edited by Michael L. Peterson and Raymond J. VanArragon
2. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science
   edited by Christopher Hitchcock
3. Contemporary Debates in Epistemology
   edited by Matthias Steup and Ernest Sosa
4. Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics
   edited by Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman
5. Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
   edited by Matthew Kieran
6. Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory
   edited by James Dreier
7. Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science
   edited by Robert Stainton
8. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind
   edited by Brian McLaughlin and Jonathan Cohen
9. Contemporary Debates in Social Philosophy
   edited by Laurence Thomas
10. Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics
    edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and Dean W. Zimmerman
11. Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy
    edited by Thomas Christiano and John Christman
12. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology
    edited by Francisco J. Ayala and Robert Arp
13. Contemporary Debates in Bioethics
    edited by Arthur L. Caplan and Robert Arp
14. Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Second Edition
    edited by Matthias Steup, John Turri, and Ernest Sosa
15. Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, Second Edition
    edited by Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman
16. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion, Second Edition
    edited by Michael L. Peterson and Raymond J. VanArragon

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Arif Ahmed is Reader in Philosophy at Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius. He writes mainly on decision theory, but also has an interest in religion and has debated whether God exists against William Lane Craig, Tariq Ramadan, Rowan Williams and others. He is an atheist and a classical liberal, his philosophical outlook being most closely allied with those of David Hume and Friedrich Hayek.

William P. Alston (19212009) was Professor Emeritus in the Philosophy Department at Syracuse University. He made many contributions in philosophy of language, epistemology, and philosophy of religion. His books include Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience (1991) and Beyond Justification: Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation (2005).

Charity Anderson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. Her research is primarily in epistemology and philosophy of religion, with a focus on issues concerning fallibilism, evidence, epistemic modals, invariantism, and knowledge norms. She is currently engaged in a research project on the topic of divine hiddenness.

Louise Antony is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts. She has published many articles in philosophy of mind, epistemology, feminism, and philosophy of religion, and coedited two volumes: A Mind of Ones Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity (1993) with Charlotte Witt, and Chomsky and His Critics (2003) with Norbert Hornstein. She edited the anthology Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life (2010) which includes her own essay For the Love of Reason.

Lynne Rudder Baker (19442017) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is best known for her work in metaphysics, and her key books include Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View (2001), and Naturalism and the FirstPerson Perspective (2013).

David Basinger is Professor of Philosophy and the Chief Academic Officer at Roberts Wesleyan College. Current research interests include epistemic humility, religious diversity, and the interplay between divine control and human freedom. He is the author of the Religious Diversity entry in the