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This book provides new insights into the interrelation between scientific and religious belief. The chapters cover important features of belief in general and discuss distinctive properties between belief, knowledge and acceptance. These properties are considered in relation and comparison to religious belief. Among the contributions are topics such as: the change of scientific belief in relation to the change of our information. Is belief val...

After a distinction between private religious visions and prophetic religious manifestations this book provides a deteiled description of the great Marian Apparitions in Guadalupe, La Salette, Lourdes, Fatima, Medjugorje and Kibeho. These events are investigated with the axiomatic method, describing its essential features with axioms and definitions from which theorems are derived. The axioms and theorems consider the events to be miracles, th...

The aim of the book is to refute the claim that God's omniscience, omnipotence and benevolence on the one hand and the existence of evil on the other are together inconsistent. This is shown first by unmasking many types of such claims as either logical fallacies or as presupposing false assumptions. Secondly the author formulates God's attributes of omniscience, omnipotence and benevolence and the existence of 10 types of evil in an axiomatic...

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The present book is a book on epistemology with the special and new focus on the relation of different types of knowledge and a differentiated comparison to both scientific and religious belief. The present book distinguishes seven types of knowledge and compares them with both scientific and religious belief. The ususal view is that scientific and religious belief have nothing or not much in common. Although there are important differences, i...

Initially proposed as rivals of classical logic, alternative logics have become increasingly important in sciences such as quantum physics, computer science, and artificial intelligence. The contributions collected in this volume address and explore the question whether the usage of logic in the sciences, especially in modern physics, requires a deviation from classical mathematical logic. The articles in the first part of the book set the sce...

The commentary of Thomas Aquinas on the Gospel of John is a masterpiece of Christian exegesis. According to Otto Hermann Pesch, who translated and edited several volumes of the German edition of Thomas Aquinas, this commentary immediately preceded his development of Christology in the Summa Theologiae and represents Thomas at the pinnacle of his exegetic skills. His take on the Gospel begins with a systematic ordering of what the Evangelist in...

Der Atheismus erlebte in den letzten Jahren eine Renaissance. Durch verschiedene Publikationen wurde der Atheismus in der Öffentlichkeit und in den Wissenschaften wieder zum Thema. Religiöser Glaube sei mit einem wissenschaftlichen Weltbild nicht vereinbar, so viele Atheisten. Diese Bewegung fasst man unter dem Namen "Neuer Atheismus" zusammen. Aber ist tatsächlich etwas neu am "neuen Atheismus"? Gibt es in den modernen Naturwissenschaften noc...

This volume comprises a selection of papers that were contributed to the 7th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, which was held in Salzburg from the 11th - 16th July, 1983. There were 14 sections in this congress: 1. proof theory and foundations of mathematics 2. model theory and its applica ti on 3. recursion theory and theory of computation 4. axiomatic set theory 5. philosophical logic 6. general methodol...

The book defends that there is both teleological order (design) and chance in non-living and in living systems of nature including man. This is done by giving exact definitions of different types of order and teleological order on the one hand and of different types of chance on the other. For their compatibility it is important to notice that any definition of chance presupposes some kind of order relative to that we can speak of chance. Thus...

The aim of the book is to clarify the concept of omniscience. This is done first by discussing basic questions on omniscience (chs.1-12) and secondly by offering a theory of omniscience as an axiomatic system in which also a definition of omniscience is given (ch.13). The twelve chapters deal with questions like whether everything is true what God knows, whether God¿s knowledge is bound to time, whether it concerns singular truths or only laws...

The aim of the book is to show that the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas, i.e. his five arguments to prove the existence of God, are logically correct arguments by the standards of modern Predicate Logic. In the first chapter this is done by commenting on the two preliminary articles preceeding the Five Ways in which Thomas Aquinas points out that on the one hand the existence of God is not self-evident to us and on the other hand, that, similar as...

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Der Sinn des internationalen Symposiums, dessen Beiträge in diesem Band gesammelt sind, war die Behandlung des Themas Übel aus interdisziplinärer Sicht. Beginnend mit dem Kosmos als Förderer und Zerstörer des Lebens fährt die Betrachtung mit Biologie (Genetic Load) und einer Kritik am sogenannten Bösen (Konrad Lorenz) fort. Weitere Themen sind das Leiden der Kreatur einerseits und die positive Seite des Schmerzes für das Lernen und Überleben a...

Der Band enthält Beiträge und Diskussionen eines internationalen Wissenschaftlergesprächs zwischen Biologen, Medizinern, Rechtswissenschaftlern und Ethikern zu einem brisanten Thema der Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart: Welches sind die biologisch-medizinischen, rechtlichen und ethischen Aspekte der embryonalen und adulten Stammzellenforschung, der entsprechenden Gentechnologie, der assistierten Fortpflanzung ..., im Zusammenhang mi...

Der Themenkreis des Buches ist die logisch-philosophische Analyse von Problemen aus der Philosophiegeschichte. Das Buch beginnt mit der Frage, ob es objektive Kriterien der Auswahl bei der Darstellung der Lehre eines Philosophen gibt. Die philosophie-geschichtlichen Probleme sind Fragen der Ontologie (Begriff der Existenz, des Seienden, des Gegenstandsbereiches der Metaphysik), der Erkenntnistheorie (Korrespondenztheorie der Wahrheit, Bedeutun...

Der Themenkreis des Buches ist die Frage nach einer Analyse von Werten und Normen und ihrer Rolle in den Wissenschaften. Diese Analyse wird mit Hilfe des Instrumentariums der modernen Logik vorgenommen. Sie beginnt mit der Definition des Werturteils und fährt mit einer Analyse vom teleologischen Argument und der Frage der Falsifizierbarkeit von Wertaussagen und Normen fort. Weitere Themen sind das Naturrecht, Invarianz von Normen bezüglich ver...

This book is a logical and philosophical analysis of the problem of evil in the light of a modern theodicy. Definitions are given for several kinds of evil like «basic evil», «necessary evil», «legitimate evil», «illegitimate evil», «moral evil». Many evils are contingent and avoidable since a global determinism is untenable. A special explanation is given for the fact: How evil accompanies the good. Can evil be desired at all? Omnipotence is ...

This volume comprises a selection of papers that were contributed to the 7th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, which was held in Salzburg from the 11th - 16th July, 1983. There were 14 sections in this congress: 1. proof theory and foundations of mathematics 2. model theory and its applica ti on 3. recursion theory and theory of computation 4. axiomatic set theory 5. philosophical logic 6. general methodol...

Initially proposed as rivals of classical logic, alternative logics have become increasingly important in sciences such as quantum physics, computer science, and artificial intelligence. The contributions collected here address the question whether the usage of logic in the sciences, especially in modern physics, requires a deviation from classical mathematical logic. The articles in the first part of the book set the scene by describing the c...