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  1. On Determining How Important It Is Whether or Not There Is a God.T. J. Mawson - 2012 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (4):95--105.
    Can the issue of how important it is whether or not there is a God be decided prior to deciding whether or not there is a God? In this paper, I explore some difficulties that stand in the way of answering this question in the affirmative and some of the implications of these difficulties for that part of the Philosophy of Religion which concerns itself with assessing arguments for and against the existence of God, the implications for how its importance (...)
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    God and the meanings of life: what God could and couldn't do to make our lives more meaningful.T. J. Mawson - 2016 - New York: Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
    Some philosophers have thought that life could only be meaningful if there is no God. For Sartre and Nagel, for example, a God of the traditional classical theistic sort would constrain our powers of self-creative autonomy in ways that would severely detract from the meaning of our lives, possibly even evacuate our lives of all meaning. Some philosophers, by contrast, have thought that life could only be meaningful if there is a God. God and the Meanings of Life is interested (...)
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  3. Recent Work on the Meaning of Life and Philosophy of Religion.T. J. Mawson - 2013 - Philosophy Compass 8 (12):1138-1146.
    ‘The Meaning of Life’ and ‘The Philosophy of Religion’ have meant different things to different people, and so I do well to alert my reader to what these phrases mean to me and thus to the subject area of this review of recent work on their intersection. First, ‘The Meaning of Life’: within the analytic tradition, an idea has gained widespread assent; whatever the vague and enigmatic nature of the phrase ‘the meaning of life’, we may sensibly speak of meaningfulness (...)
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  4. Monotheism and the Meaning of Life.T. J. Mawson - 2019 - Cambridge University Press.
    Monotheism and the Meaning of Life explores the role of God, and the relationship to the question 'What is the meaning of life?' for adherents of the main monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Exploring the various senses of 'meaning' and 'life', Mawson argues that there are various questions implicit in the notion of the meaning of life and that the God of monotheistic religion is central to the correct answers to all of them.
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  5. Praying to stop being an atheist.T. J. Mawson - 2010 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 67 (3):173 - 186.
    In this paper, I argue that atheists who think that the issue of God's existence or non-existence is an important one; assign a greater than negligible probability to God's existence; and are not in possession of a plausible argument for scepticism about the truth-directedness of uttering such prayers in their own cases, are under a prima facie epistemic obligation to pray to God that He stop them being atheists.
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  6. The Rationality of Classical Theism and Its Demographics1.T. J. Mawson - 2012 - In Yujin Nagasawa (ed.), Scientific Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 184.
     
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  7. Theodical Individualism.T. J. Mawson - 2011 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 3 (1):139 - 159.
    In this journal Steve Maitzen has recently advanced an argument for atheism premised on theodical individualism, the thesis that God would not permit people to suffer evils that were underserved, involuntary, and gratuitous for them. In this paper I advance reasons to think this premise mistaken.
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  8. (1 other version)Why is there anything at all?T. J. Mawson - 2008 - In Yujin Nagasawa & Erik Wielenberg (eds.), New waves in philosophy of religion. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
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    Divine eternity.T. J. Mawson - 2008 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 64 (1):35-50.
    I argue that Open Theism leads to a retreat from ascribing to God ‘complete omniscience’. Having surrendered this ground, the Open Theist cannot but retreat from ascribing to God complete omnipotence; the Open Theist must admit that God might perform actions which He reasonably expected would meet certain descriptions but which nevertheless do not do so. This then makes whatever goodness (in the sense of beneficence, not just benevolence) God has a matter of luck. Open Theism is committed to a (...)
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  10. Safety and Knowledge in God.T. J. Mawson - 2014 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 6 (2):81--100.
    In recent ”secular’ Epistemology, much attention has been paid to formulating an ”anti-luck’ or ”safety’ condition; it is now widely held that such a condition is an essential part of any satisfactory post-Gettier reflection on the nature of knowledge. In this paper, I explain the safety condition as it has emerged and then explore some implications of and for it arising from considering the God issue. It looks at the outset as if safety might be ”good news’ for a view (...)
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    Theological Determinism.T. J. Mawson - unknown
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    God in the Age of Science? by Herman Philipse.T. J. Mawson - 2014 - Mind 123 (491):948-951.
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    Knowledge of God * by Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley.T. J. Mawson - 2009 - Analysis 69 (3):591-592.
    Knowledge of God takes the form of a debate between Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley. Plantinga opens the batting with a seventy-page laying out of his case ‘that theism has a significant epistemic virtue: if it is true, it is warranted; this is a virtue naturalism emphatically lacks’ . Indeed, Plantinga argues that ‘if naturalism were true, there would be no such thing as knowledge’ . It will be recalled [e.g. Plantinga and Plantinga ] that Plantinga's position is that warrant, (...)
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    Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering, by Michael Murray.T. J. Mawson - 2009 - Mind 118 (471):855-858.
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    The ethics of believing in God.T. J. Mawson - 2010 - Think 9 (25):93-100.
    In this paper, I aim to discuss not the issue of whether or not we do in fact have reasons to suppose that there is or that there is not a God, but rather an issue which looks at first glance like it might have a certain methodological priority, the issue of what is the right ‘ethics of belief’ for belief in God: should one believe in God only if one has positive reasons in favour of doing so or is (...)
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    Volume 38, number 1, pages 1–25 God's creation of morality.T. J. Mawson - 2002 - Religious Studies 38 (2):249-249.
    The title of T. J. Mawson's article was incorrectly given as “God's creation of mortality” on the Contents page and cover. The publishers would like to apologise to the author and their readers for this error.
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    Jonathan L. Kvanvig. Depicting Deity: A Metatheological Approach. [REVIEW]T. J. Mawson - 2023 - Journal of Analytic Theology 11:735-737.
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    Creation out of nothing, a biblical, philosophical, and scientific exploration by Paul Copan and William Lane Craig. Grand rapids, MI: Baker academic, 2004, 277pp. [REVIEW]T. J. Mawson - 2005 - Philosophy 80 (3):455-459.
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    Faith and Philosophical Analysis: The Impact of Analytical Philosophy on the Philosophy of Religion. [REVIEW]T. J. Mawson - 2006 - Religious Studies 42 (3):355-360.
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    God and Phenomenal Consciousness. [REVIEW]T. J. Mawson - 2009 - Faith and Philosophy 26 (4):471-474.
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    Jamie Mayerfeld suffering and moral responsibility. (Oxford: Oxford university press, 2002). Pp. XIII+237. £16.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 19 515495. [REVIEW]T. J. Mawson - 2003 - Religious Studies 39 (4):496-500.
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    (2 other versions)No Title available: Book reviews. [REVIEW]T. J. Mawson - 2009 - Religious Studies 45 (2):237-241.
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    On What Matters: Volume One and On What Matters: Volume Two, by Derek Parfit. [REVIEW]T. J. Mawson - 2013 - Faith and Philosophy 30 (2):239-244.
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    (1 other version)Reviews God, chance and purpose, can God have it both ways? By David J. Bartholomew. Cambridge: Cambridge university press, pp. XII + 259, 2008, £14.99. [REVIEW]T. J. Mawson - 2009 - Philosophy 84 (2):299-302.
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    The Meaning of Theism. [REVIEW]T. J. Mawson - 2009 - Faith and Philosophy 26 (2):216-221.