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	Swinburne's Argument from Religious Experience
		While Swinburne's overall aim is to establish that the probability that God exists is greater than one-half, he does not want the probability to be too high, for he fears that this would necessitate belief in God on the part of whoever accepts the argument, thereby negating the accepter's freedom to choose not to believe.
		Swinburne constructs a theodicy for these evils based on their being necessary for our having the requisite knowledge to make morally significant choices, a knowledge of which can be gained only by inductive reasoning from past experiences of actual instances of natural evils.
		Swinburne seems to have forgotten that he is supposed to be justifying his extension of the PC to religious experience in premiss 2 on the ground that there are no cognitively relevant disanalogies between sense and religious experience.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/richard_gale/swinburne_argument.html (7904 words)

	Richard Swinburne’s Teleological Argument
		Swinburne seeks a stronger version of the teleological argument which tends to bypass the co-present (spatial) regularities in favor of the successive (temporal) regularities that seem apparent in the universe.
		Swinburne believes that the force of explanation sides most favorably with the latter hypothesis, though he first must explain why Hume’s skeptical character Philo, arguing as much for the sake of arguing as for any other reason, suggests to Cleanthes in the Dialogues that his single God could well be many gods.
		Swinburne also distinguishes between types of inductive arguments, suggesting that there are P-inductive and C-inductive arguments: in the former of which the premises or data render the conclusion likely and in the latter of which the premises contribute to the overall probability of the conclusion, but do not directly, of themselves alone, make it probable.
	www.mrrena.com /2006/teleo_argument.shtml (3279 words)

	Richard Swinburne
		Richard Swinburne (born December 26, 1934) is a British professor and philosopher primarily interested in the philosophy of religion.
		Other subjects on which Swinburne writes include personal identity (in which he espouses a view based on the concept of a soul), and epistemic justification.
		Swinburne has held various professorships through his career in academia, including from 1972 to 1985 at the University of Keele[?], and from 1985 until his retirement in 2002 at the University of Oxford (where he is now a professor emeritus).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ri/Richard_Swinburne.html (225 words)

	Rejection of Pascal's Wager: Swinburne and the Probability of Theism
		Another modern attempt to revive the moribund state of philosophical theism is that of Richard Swinburne.
		Swinburne's argument is based on the field of inductive logic known as "confirmation theory".
		Although Swinburne claims that p(e/k) is small he gives no clue as to exactly how small it is nor does he provide any suggestion of a methodology of acquiring such an estimate.
	www.geocities.com /paulntobin/swinburne.html (1307 words)

	Richard Swinburne - The Resurrection of God Incarnate - Reviewed by Richard Otte , University of California, Santa Cruz ...
		Swinburneâs argument is based on an application of Bayesâ theorem, and most of the book is support for the probability values he uses in that theorem.
		Swinburne considers the evidence of natural theology (k) to be our background knowledge, and the evidence to be that Jesus and only Jesus satisfies the prior and posterior requirements for being God incarnate (f).
		Swinburne does claim that it is âimmensely unlikelyâ that we would have the evidence we have if God did not become incarnate: âIt would have been deceptive of God to bring about this combination of evidence.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1329 (2301 words)

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		If you know who Richard Swinburne is, then you know that he is a Christian philosopher whose usual trade is arguing for the existence of God.
		The result is as you may expect: Swinburne shows significant weaknesses in terms of his familiarity with Biblical scholarship; yet his ability is such that he offers a powerful defense of the resurrection even so.
		Swinburne approaches the resurrection with the general thesis that of all possible explanations for the data, it fits better than any other, including naturalistic explanations.
	www.tektonics.org /books/swinrezrvw.html (370 words)

	Books in Review: Is There a God? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Swinburne insists on the stronger claim that theism is the most reasonable worldview in that it is more probable than any of its intellectual competitors.
		Swinburne’s background in the philosophy of science gives him an advantage in sorting out the legitimate science in these books from their questionable philosophical assumptions.
		Swinburne tells us in the final paragraph that if theism is true, "God in his perfect goodness will want to make the best of us: make saints of us and use us to make saints of others." Statements of this sort don’t appear in analytic philosophy books every day.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9803/reviews/garcia.html (739 words)

	Whitworth Press Release - Swinburne Philosophy Lecture
		Richard Swinburne, widely considered to be one of the most prolific and well-known philosophers of religion today, will present a lecture, "What Makes Me, Me: The Relation of Soul and Body," on Tuesday, March 22, at 7 p.m.
		Swinburne's lecture is being hosted by the Whitworth Theology and Philosophy Department in conjunction with the Weyerhaeuser Center for Faith and Learning and Gonzaga University.
		Swinburne is Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Emeritus Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of Christian Religion at the University of Oxford.
	www.whitworth.edu /News/2004_2005/Spring/SwinburnePhilosophyLecture.htm (288 words)

	Richard Swinburne Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Richard Swinburne presents a new edition of one of his classic works on philosophical theology.
		Swinburne analyzes the purposes of practicing a religion, and argues that...
		Swinburne argues that God wants us to learn and to love, to make our choices about good and evil for ourselves and others on our own, to form our characters in the way we choose, and, above all, to be of great...
	www.alibris.co.uk /search/books/author/Richard_Swinburne (674 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Christian God: Livres en anglais: Richard Swinburne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In this pivotal volume of his tetralogy, Richard Swinburne builds a rigorous metaphysical system for describing the world, and applies this to assessing the worth of the Christian tenets of the Trinity and the Incarnation.
		Swinburne finds that there are good reasons to believe the Christian additions to the core Western idea of God.
		In this pivotal volume of a tetralogy, Oxford University's Richard Swinburne builds a rigorous metaphysical system for describing the world, which he applies to assessing the validity of the Christian tenets of the Trinity and the Incarnation.
	www.amazon.fr /Christian-God-Richard-Swinburne/dp/0198235127 (447 words)

	Think
		It is surprising that a writer as clear as Swinburne has risen to the top of his profession as Nolloth Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Oxford.
		Swinburne generously concedes that God cannot accomplish feats that are logically impossible, and one feels grateful for this forbearance.
		Richard Dawkins FRS is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.
	www.royalinstitutephilosophy.org /think/article.php?num=17 (1145 words)

	blog.kennypearce.net: Richard Swinburne Archives
		Swinburne has, however, presented the clearest version I have seen (not that I have seen that many different versions of the argument), and so my argument will be based chiefly on his.
		Major influences on the arguments I'm going to make are Richard Swinburne's book Revelation (I posted my first response immediately after finishing it here) and a series of teachings on the subject by John Piper, which I downloaded from the Theopedia article on the inerrancy of the Bible.
		Swinburne argues that no such investigation can be adequately undertaken without first determining whether the evidence supports belief in the existence of God and his activity in the world, especially with regard to the formation of religious belief.
	blog.kennypearce.net /archives/contemporary-thinkers/richard-swinburne (5147 words)

	Amazon.com: The Existence of God: Books: Richard Swinburne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Swinburne is perhaps the leading figure in contemporary natural theology and _The Existence of God_ is his most important work.
		Swinburne's methodology is, I think, clearly on the right track; and as a result there is little doubt that his arguments for theism are powerful and deserve serious consideration.
		Swinburne's dismissal of morality as a good argument to the existence of God is somewhat out of tune with his endorsement of the beauty of the universe as a good argument to the existence of God.
	www.amazon.com /Existence-God-Richard-Swinburne/dp/0199271682 (2373 words)

	Richard G. Swinburne -- The Justification of Theism
		The key power involved in Swinburne's use of 'personal explanation' is that of fulfilling intentions directly, without any physical or causal mediation, without materials or instruments.
		Swinburne holds, and his argument requires, that inductive extrapolation is reasonable, prior to and independently of any belief in a god.
		Richard Swinburne, a Greek Orthodox Christian, is perhaps the most significant proponent of argumentative theism today, studied philosophy and theology at Oxford University.
	www.orthodoxytoday.org /articles/SwinburneTheism.htm (6242 words)

	Amazon.com: Is there a God?: Books: Richard Swinburne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Swinburne is accepting the challenge to make his case on the more difficult side.
		I understand why Swinburne closes this volume with some "dissatisfaction," because it is a very brief distillation and summary of his much more detailed work elsewhere and it does, as he readily admits, invite any number of critical replies he does not have room to address.
		Swinburne's basic idea is that although no particular argument clinches the case for God, several arguments together render His existence altogether more likely than not.
	www.amazon.com /there-God-Richard-Swinburne/dp/0198235445 (2309 words)

	Amazon.fr : Is There a God?: Livres en anglais: Richard Swinburne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		For many people, this gives strength to the belief that God is not needed to explain the universe; that religious belief is not based on reason; and that the existence of God is, intellectually, a lost cause.
		Richard Swinburne, one of the most distinguished philosophers of religion writing today, argues that on the contrary, science provides good grounds for belief in God.
		Swinburne uses these methods of scientific reasoning to agrue that the best answers to these questions are given by the existence of God.
	www.amazon.fr /There-God-Richard-Swinburne/dp/0198235453 (556 words)

	Is there a God ? (Richard Swinburne).
		Professor Richard Swinburne is one of the most influential theistic philosophers of our time and is Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at the University of Oxford.
		Swinburne redefines human experience to such an extent that his story ceases to be a neutral description of the facts.
		However Swinburne next removes essential properties of his 'explanatory person', such as having a body, being born, having parents, growing up in a family, thereby transforming his explanatory person to the very opposite of a natural person and transforming it into a highly abstract unobservable theoretical entity.
	home.planet.nl /~gkorthof/kortho24.htm (2591 words)

	Swinburne Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The poet Swinburne is one of the very few, since the days of Raleigh and Sidney, to come from the aristocracy.
		A collection of verse by the poet Swinburne who is one of the very few, since the days of Raleigh and Sidney, to come from the aristocracy.
		This is Swinburne's version of the courtly legend and is considered by him to be his masterwork.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Swinburne (1039 words)

	Epistemic Justification
		Well, generic foundationalism, as Swinburne understands it, is the view that some justified beliefs are basic, i.e., not grounded on or based on other beliefs.
		Following Ian Hacking and others, Swinburne notes that since the seventeenth century, two main kinds of probability have been identified: probability as “a feature of the physical world”, which Swinburne calls ‘externalist probability’, and “probability on evidence that something was the case in the physical world”, which he calls ‘inductive probability’ (pp.
		Even if a logically omniscient person will have privileged access to which of her basic beliefs are logically probable, most people won’t for, the simple reason that they won’t always have privileged access to which of their beliefs are in contingent propositions or to which of their beliefs in noncontingent propositions are true.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~bergmann/swinburne.htm (1357 words)

	Richard Swinburne - Theopedia
		Richard Swinburne is a Christian philosopher and currently teaches at Oxford.
		Swinburne studied at the University of Oxford, and spent around a decade each lecturing at the University of Hull and the University of Keele, before returning to Oxford to become Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion from 1985 to his retirement in 2002.
		During this time he produced a series of influential works, without doubt changing the face of the philosophy of religion.
	www.theopedia.com /Richard_Swinburne (236 words)

	Philosophy of Religion .info - Biographies - Modern Authors - Richard Swinburne
		Richard Swinburne’s contribution to Christian philosophy has been immense.
		Swinburne’s other works include a tetralogy on philosophical theology, consisting of Responsibility and Atonement, Revelation, The Christian God, and Providence and the Problem of Evil, and a study of the mind-body problem, The Evolution of the Soul.
		More recently, in his The Resurrection of God Incarnate, he used Bayes’ theorem to argue that the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection can be established with 97% certainty.
	www.philosophyofreligion.info /richardswinburne.html (241 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Coherence of Theism: Books: Richard Swinburne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The revisions are not extensive, but make significant corrections to his treatment especially of omniscience, and of the unicity of God.
		I was very glad to see that his tough minded philosophical explications of God-Talk are defensible without much fallback to analogy(or from what he says).
		From my perspective, Swinburne is tops in the Philosophy of Religion.
	www.amazon.ca /Coherence-Theism-Richard-Swinburne/dp/019824410X (390 words)

	Richard Swinburne (ed.) - Bayes's Theorem - Reviewed by Branden Fitelson , University of California'Berkeley - ...
		Swinburne, Richard (ed.), Bayes's Theorem, Oxford University Press, 2002, 160pp, $24.95 (hbk), ISBN 0197262678.
		The final contemporary paper in this collection (aside from Swinburneâs solid introductory piece on which I have chosen not to comment explicitly) is Millerâs brief (but important) essay on the propensity interpretation of probability.
		I found this book very edifying and clear, and the debates and issues it encompasses are of great importance for contemporary philosophy of probability, statistics, and decision-making.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1307 (2875 words)

	The descendants of Col. Joseph Swinburne of Lichfield in Staffordshire
		The descendants of Col. Joseph Swinburne of Lichfield in Staffordshire
		JOSEPH SWINBURNE, born 1820 Ceylon; one of the executors of his fathers' will 1860 at which time he was living at Lichfield; does not appear on the 1881 census; died 8 September 1900 Brighton, aged 80, of 45 St. George's Road, Brighton, probate granted 27 October 1900 London to brother Charles Alfred, effects £379
		HENRY LAWRENCE SWINBURNE, born 1859 India; Secretary to Lord Charles Beresford; executor of father's will in 1895 and mother's in 1908; died 6 February 1909 of 51 Rowan Road, Brook Green, Middlesex, aged 50; admon.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Atlantis/8805/lichfield.html (634 words)

	Richard Swinburne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to an interview Swinburne did with Foma magazine, he switched from the Church of England to the Greek Orthodox Church around 1996:
		Richard Swinburne, "The Vocation of a Natural Theologian," in Philosophers Who Believe, Kelly James Clark, ed.
		Keith M. Parsons, God and the Burden of Proof: Plantinga, Swinburne, and the Analytic Defense of Theism (Buffalo: Prometheus, 1989).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Swinburne (556 words)

	Amazon.com: The Christian God: Books: Richard Swinburne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Swinburne commands a very wide range of philosophical and theological ideas and never shuns hard thinking...
		Swinburne is an open theist in his views on foreknowledge, so I disagreed with his stance there.
		His argument was not persuasive there at all, but that's not the full subject of the book, so I don't hold that against him here.
	www.amazon.com /Christian-God-Richard-Swinburne/dp/0198235127 (1432 words)

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