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S.R. Duncan has been in and around the poetry and communications scene in Vancouver for most of his life. He is a prolific poet writing about both the beautiful and the seedy side of life, work, acquaintances and family. Steven's poetry is evocative, cutting edge that cuts no corners. Of particular interest are the poems "Milltown Gunslinger", "They Burn Dance Halls Don't They?", "Party Like It's the End of the World" and of course many more.

Among the questions that have exercised philosophers of the last sixty years, that of the existence of God has been one of the most hotly contested. That question is the subject of this book. Its chapters cover: What is the Philosophy of Religion? Three Competing Paradigms in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, Deductivism (Neo-Thomism, Analytic Philosophy, Analytic Atheism, etc), Inductivism (Mitchell's Inductivist Proposal, Swinburne's v...

This book is a reconstruction and interpretation of the development of analytic philosophy of religion in Britain and the United States, with special reference to the debate over the existence of God and the problem of evil, during the last fifty years. It discusses Theism and Atheism, Neo-Thomism, The Problem of Religious Language, The Argument from Evil and the Origins of Inductivism, The Inductivist Paradigm, The Ontological, Cosmological A...

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Lt. Colonel Nathan Serling (Denzel Washington) unterläuft ein verhängnisvoller Irrtum - im Kampfgefecht jagt er einen Panzer seiner eigenen Division in die Luft und verschuldet so den Tod seiner Kameraden. Der Vorfall wird von den Militärbehörden als glorreicher Heldentod vertuscht und Serling ein hochbrisanter Pentagon-Auftrag übertragen, er soll die Anwärterschaft der Hubschrauber-Pilotin Karen Walden (Meg Ryan) auf eine Ehrenmedaille für i...

Description: In How Free Will Works, Steven M. Duncan provides not merely discussions of, but potential answers to two of the most vexed questions discussed by philosophers concerning free choice. First, supposing that the mind and the body are separate substances of opposed natures, how is it possible for them to interact such that an entirely non-physical immanent mental act can give rise to changes in the external world? Second, supposing ...

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Description: In How Free Will Works, Steven M. Duncan provides not merely discussions of, but potential answers to two of the most vexed questions discussed by philosophers concerning free choice. First, supposing that the mind and the body are separate substances of opposed natures, how is it possible for them to interact such that an entirely non-physical immanent mental act can give rise to changes in the external world? Second, supposing ...

Church and state issues are in the news. The Supreme Court continues to work to clarify the fuzzy line between religion and politics. This collection summarizes the history and status of issues involving the separation of church and state by examining the backgrounds, relevant constitutional concerns, and perspectives on specific controversies.

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Descartes' attempt to ground the possibility of human knowledge in the existence of God was judged to be a complete failure by his contemporaries, and this remains the universal opinion of philosophers to this day, despite the fact that three and a half centuries of secular epistemology--which attempts to ground the possibility of knowledge either in the unaided human intellect or in natural processes--has failed to do any better. Further, the...