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Richard Swinburne

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Philosophy of Religion

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Epistemology

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Richard Swinburne's Degrees

Bachelors Philosophy, Politics and Economics University of Oxford
Masters Philosophy University of Oxford
PhD Philosophy University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Granville Swinburne is an English philosopher. He is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years, Swinburne has been a proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. His philosophical contributions are primarily in the philosophy of religion and philosophy of science. He aroused much discussion with his early work in the philosophy of religion, a trilogy of books consisting of The Coherence of Theism, The Existence of God, and Faith and Reason.

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OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE: AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH (1973) (1521)
The Philosophy of Karl Popper (1975) (671)
The existence of God (2020) (374)
The Coherence of Theism (1979) (321)
Responsibility and Atonement (1989) (203)
The Argument from Design (1968) (183)
The Christian God (1994) (174)
The Concept Of Miracle (1970) (157)
Providence and the Problem of Evil (1998) (140)
Consciousness And Causality (1984) (120)
The Evolution Of The Soul (1989) (107)
Faith and Reason. (1981) (103)
Is There a God (1996) (84)
Revelation: From Metaphor to Analogy (1992) (77)
Space and Time (2002) (74)
The Resurrection of God Incarnate (2003) (69)
II. THE PARADOXES OF CONFIRMATION ? A SURVEY (2016) (67)
Bayes's theorem (2005) (65)
An introduction to confirmation theory (1973) (55)
Argument from the Fine-Tuning of the Universe (1990) (53)
METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (1970) (48)
The Coherence of Theism: Second Edition (2016) (43)
The justification of induction (1974) (42)
Was Jesus God (2008) (41)
FALSIFIABILITY OF SCIENTIFIC THEORIES (1964) (36)
Selected Writings, 1909-1953 (1980) (31)
MODERN SCIENCE AND ZENO'S PARADOXES (1969) (28)
The Subjective View (2009) (27)
Cosmological Horizons (1966) (26)
Mind, Brain, and Free Will (2013) (25)
The Argument from Design—a Defence (1972) (22)
Duty and the Will of God (1974) (20)
Plantinga on warrant (2001) (20)
Could There Be More Than One God (1988) (19)
Free Will and Modern Science (2011) (17)
Does Theism Need a Theodicy? (1988) (15)
ANALYTICITY, NECESSITY AND APRIORITY (1975) (15)
The social theory of the Trinity (2018) (15)
Space, Time and Causality (1979) (15)
Eleonore Stump. The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers (2018) (14)
Our Idea of God (1991) (13)
The Irreducibility of Causation (2005) (12)
What Kind of Necessary Being Could God Be (2012) (12)
Relations between universals,or divine laws? (2006) (12)
Is Goodness Without God Good Enough?: A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethics (2009) (12)
XIII—Personal Identity (1974) (12)
Theodicy, our well-being, and God’s rights (1995) (11)
THE ARGUMENT TO GOD FROM FINE-TUNING REASSESSED (2003) (11)
God as the Simplest Explanation of the Universe1 (2010) (11)
The Christian Wager (1969) (9)
Natural Theology, Its “Dwindling Probabilities” and “Lack of Rapport” (2004) (9)
The presence-and-absence theory (1962) (9)
Simplicity as evidence of truth : under the auspices of the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau (1997) (8)
The Objectivity of Morality (1976) (8)
Necessary Moral Principles (2015) (8)
Bayes, God, and the Multiverse (2012) (8)
SUBSTANCE DUALISM (2016) (8)
Explanation and its Limits: The Limits of Explanation (1991) (7)
Cartesian Substance Dualism (2018) (7)
Reason and the Christian religion : essays in honour of Richard Swinburne (1996) (7)
Choosing between Confirmation Theories (1970) (7)
Could God Become Man? (1989) (7)
Personal Identity: How to determine which is the true theory of personal identity (2012) (7)
Knowledge of past and future (1966) (7)
Mackie, Induction, and God (1983) (6)
The Beginning of the Universe (1966) (6)
The Beginning of the Universe and of Time (1996) (6)
From Mental / Physical Identity to Substance Dualism (2014) (6)
Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind By Paul M. Churchland Cambridge University Press, 1979, 157 pp., £8.50 (1980) (6)
Reply to Grünbaum (2000) (5)
Evidence for the Resurrection (1998) (5)
Dualism and the determination of action1 (2011) (5)
How the divine properties fit together: reply to Gwiazda (2009) (5)
The coherence of the Chalcedonian Definition of the incarnation1 (2011) (5)
Violation of a Law of Nature (1970) (5)
A Posteriori Arguments for the Trinity (2013) (4)
Discussion of Peter Unger's Identity, Consciousness and Value (1992) (4)
The Problem of Evil (1991) (4)
The Implausibility of the Causal Closure of the Physical (2019) (4)
What Does the Old Testament Mean (2010) (4)
Swinburne and Plantinga on internal rationality (2001) (4)
Affecting the Past (1966) (4)
What Makes Me Me? A Defense of Substance Dualism (2014) (4)
THE ANTICIPATION OF NATURE (1966) (4)
Arguments from Design (2002) (4)
Second Reply to Grünbaum (2005) (3)
THE SIMPLICITY OF GOD (1996) (3)
Divine Nature and Human Language (1992) (3)
The Argument from Colors and Flavors (2018) (3)
The Structure of the Soul (1997) (3)
GOD AND MORALITY (2008) (3)
Three Types of Thesis About Fact and Value (1961) (3)
Response to my commentators (2002) (3)
Response to WarrantWarrant: The Current Debate.Warrant and Proper Function (1995) (3)
Conditions for Coherence (1993) (3)
Phenomenal Conservatism and Religious Experience (2018) (2)
The Modal Argument is Not Circular (1998) (2)
Conventionalism About Space and Time* (1980) (2)
Why the Life of Heaven Is Supremely Worth Living (2017) (2)
Design defended (2004) (2)
The Indeterminism of Human Actions (1987) (2)
The Limits of Explanation: The Limits of Explanation (1990) (2)
Verificationism and Theories of Space-Time (1983) (2)
Popper's account of acceptability (1971) (2)
Confirmability and factual meaningfulness (1973) (2)
Dualism and the Determination of Action* (2016) (2)
Anselmian Explorations, Essays in Philosophical Theology (1989) (2)
Conditions for bitemporality (1965) (2)
The Argument to God from the Laws of Nature (2010) (2)
Polyurethane and Epoxy Coatings For the Rehabilitation and Repair of Pipelines (2000) (2)
DEITY AND MORALITY (1969) (2)
Gwiazda on the Bayesian Argument for God (2011) (2)
The Evidential Argument from Evil (2008) (2)
A Necessary Being (1993) (2)
WHY GOD ALLOWS EVIL (1996) (2)
The Revival of Natural Theology (2007) (2)
REPLY TO BLACKBURN (2008) (2)
Authority of Scripture, Tradition, and the Church (2011) (2)
Mental Causation Is Really Mental Causation (2018) (2)
Reply to Stump and Kretzmann (1996) (2)
Reply to Richard Gale (2000) (1)
Natural Evils and Moral Choice (2016) (1)
Guilt, Atonement, and Forgiveness (1989) (1)
The Dimensions of Space (1968) (1)
Free To Do Evil (1999) (1)
Natural Evil and the Possibility of Knowledge (1998) (1)
The Argument from Religious Experience (1991) (1)
Review: The Problem of Evil (2007) (1)
Review: Logic and Theism (2006) (1)
Chapter 80. Evidentialism (2010) (1)
The Refutation of Determinism. By M. R. Ayers. (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1968. Price 37s. 6d.) (1968) (1)
The Purpose of Religion (1984) (1)
Causation, Time, and God’s Omniscience (2017) (1)
The argument from souls to God (2015) (1)
Christianity and the Discourse of the World Religions (2003) (1)
Faith and Reason by Anthony Kenny; The Miracle of Theism by J. L. Mackie; God and Skepticism by Terence Penelhum; Faith and Rationality by Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff, eds. (1985) (1)
The Argument from Laws of Nature Reassessed (2004) (1)
The Geometry of Space (1968) (1)
Sobel on Arguments from Design (2006) (1)
The Probability of the Resurrection of Jesus (2013) (1)
The Future of the Soul (1997) (1)
The Argument to God from Fine‐Tuning (2010) (1)
The Need for Theodicy (1998) (1)
Précis of Mind, Brain, and Free Will (2014) (1)
Morality and god (2003) (1)
DOES GOD KNow THE FUTURE ? CAN GOD BE MISTAKEN ? : A REPLY (2012) (1)
DOES GOD KNow THE FUTURE ? CAN GOD BE MISTAKEN ? : A REPLY (2012) (1)
Gregory Palamas and our Knowledge of God (2014) (1)
Response to Keith Ward, Christ and the Cosmos (2016) (1)
PRIOR PROBABILITIES IN THE ARGUMENT FROM FINE-TUNING (2005) (1)
Faith and the Existence of God: Arguments for the Existence of God (1988) (1)
The Argument to the Soul from Partial Brain Transplants (2018) (1)
Does God Permit Massive Deception (2013) (1)
Review: Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles (2002) (1)
An Omnipresent Spirit (1993) (0)
Jesus Founded a Church (2003) (0)
The Beginning and End of the Universe (1968) (0)
Theodicy in Christian Tradition (1998) (0)
Original Sinfulness (1985) (0)
How to define ‘Moral Realism’ (2020) (0)
The Value of Diachronic Justification (2001) (0)
The Four Tests for a Revelation (2007) (0)
Is Simplicity Evidence of Truth?1 (2007) (0)
Anomalies and Scientific Theories . By Willard C. Humphreys. (San Fransisco: Freeman, Cooper and Co. 1968. Pp. 318. No price given). (1969) (0)
Rival Theories of What Happened (2003) (0)
FROM PERSONAL IDENTITY TO SIMPLE IMMATERIAL SOULS (2021) (0)
The Action of a god (1970) (0)
The Explanatory Power of Theism: General Considerations (1991) (0)
Stump On Forgiveness (2019) (0)
Merit and Reward (0)
The Balance of Probability (1991) (0)
William Lane Craig God, Time and Eternity. The Coherence of Theism II: Eternity. (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001). Pp. xi+321. £74.00 (Hbk). ISBN 1402000111. (2002) (0)
God’s Omnipotence (2018) (0)
God's Reasons for Incarnation (2003) (0)
5.4 'DUALISM AND PERSONAL IDENTITY' (2001) (0)
Past and Future (1968) (0)
On What There Must Be By Ross Harrison. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1974, 210 pp., £4.25 (1975) (0)
PHS volume 27 Cover and Front matter (1990) (0)
Sanctification and Corruption (1989) (0)
Arguments from History and Miracles (1991) (0)
Why Believe That There Is a God? (2016) (0)
Theodicy, our well-being, and God's rights (1995) (0)
The Fact of Moral Evil; and Free Will (1998) (0)
A Selective Bibliography of the Philosophy of Religion (1990) (0)
Free and Creator of the Universe (1993) (0)
Many Kinds of Rational Theistic Belief (1999) (0)
The Value of Synchronic Justification (2001) (0)
The Argument from Providence (1991) (0)
The Value and Christian Roots of Analytical Philosophy of Religion (2019) (0)
William Hasker: Metaphysics and the Tri-personal god (2014) (0)
Modern Anglo-American Philosophy of Religion (2003) (0)
PROBABILISTIC ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD (2013) (0)
The Words of Theology—I Words With Old and New Senses (1993) (0)
Bonaventure’s Trinitarian Argument from Beatitude (2019) (0)
What Makes a Scientific Theory Probably True (2010) (0)
Morality, Religious and Secular: The Dilemma of the Traditional Conscience. By Basil Mitchell. Pp. vii+168. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. £7.50. (1981) (0)
HOW WE EXPLAIN THINGS (1996) (0)
The Construction of Reality By Michael A. Arbib and Mary B. Hesse Cambridge University Press, 1987, 286 pp., £25.00 (1987) (0)
God's Right (1998) (0)
The Evidence of Personal Identity (1997) (0)
Forgiving as a Performative Utterance (2021) (0)
The Concept of Identity. (1983) (0)
The Range of Moral Evil; and Responsibility (1998) (0)
John Hick. Death and Eternal Life . Pp. 495.(London: Collins, 1976.) £5.95. - Paul Badham. Christian Beliefs about Life after Death . Pp. 174. (London: Macmillan Press, Library of Philosophy and Religion, 1976.) £8.95. (1977) (0)
Book Review: God’s Love and Human Suffering (2011) (0)
The Humean Tradition (1970) (0)
What We Cannot Know about God (2021) (0)
Richard Swinburne, THE RESSURECTION OF GOD INCARNATE (2020) (0)
The Role of Creeds (1984) (0)
Senses of ‘Miracle’ (1970) (0)
CHRISTIAN DISCOURSE: SOME LOGICAL EXPLORATIONS (1966) (0)
How God Knows Counterfactuals of Freedom (2019) (0)
Historical Sources (2003) (0)
THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT (1976) (0)
HOW THE EXISTENCE OF GOD EXPLAINS MIRACLES AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE (1996) (0)
The Words of Theology—2 Medieval and Modern Accounts (1993) (0)
The Significance of the Resurrection (2003) (0)
Analogy and Metaphor (1991) (0)
The Tests of Content and Miracle (1991) (0)
Responsibility, Atonement, and Forgiveness Verantwortung, Sühne und Vergebung (2012) (0)
Book Review: Death and Afterlife (1990) (0)
Morality Under God (1989) (0)
New Studies in Philosophy of Religion.Death and Immortality.Religion and Secularisation.The Concept of Miracle.Morality and Religion (1972) (0)
Law and Explanation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Science. (1972) (0)
Times and the Topology of Time (1968) (0)
Recensioni/Reviews-Epistemic Justification (2003) (0)
Rationality and public evidence : a reply to (2012) (0)
The Comparison of Creeds (1984) (0)
Moral Responsibility and Weakness of Will (1989) (0)
Visiting Speaker Series - Fall 2014 (2015) (0)
Jesus Taught His Atonement (2003) (0)
Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks By Nicholas Wolterstorff Cambridge University Press, 1995, 326 pp., £37.50 hb, £12.95 pb. (1996) (0)
God and Revelation (2021) (0)
The Nature of Belief (1984) (0)
Causation, Time, and God’s Omniscience (2016) (0)
The Value of Rational Religious Belief (1984) (0)
Summary of Are We Bodies or Souls? (2021) (0)
The Nature of Explanation (1991) (0)
THE ARGUMENT TO GOD FROM FINE- (2013) (0)
The Origin and Life of the Soul (1997) (0)
Carnap's Philosophy (1966) (0)
The Criteria of Logical Probability (2001) (0)
Language, Rationality, and Choice (1997) (0)
HOW THE EXISTENCE OF GOD EXPLAINS THE EXISTENCE OF HUMANS (1996) (0)
William Hasker: Metaphysics and the Tri-personal god (2014) (0)
Reply to my commentators (2017) (0)
A simple theism for a mixed world: response to Bradley (2007) (0)
HOW THE EXISTENCE OF GOD EXPLAINS THE WORLD AND ITS ORDER (1996) (0)
Arguments to God from the Observable Universe (2012) (0)
Body and soul (2003) (0)
Meaningfulness without Confirmability--A Reply (1974) (0)
Kinds of Necessity (1993) (0)
Whole and Part in Cosmological, Arguments (1969) (0)
The Relevance of Free Will (1989) (0)
Sin and Original Sin (1989) (0)
Symposium: The Beginning of the Universe (1966) (0)
Could God Be a Necessary Being (2015) (0)
The Probability of Particular Events (1971) (0)
Arguments from Consciousness and Morality (1991) (0)
Jonathan Barnes. The Ontological Argument . Pp. 98 (London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1972.) £1·95. Thomas McPherson. The Argument from Design . Pp. 78 (London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd. 1972.) £1·95. (1973) (0)
The Nature of Faith (1984) (0)
The Empty Tomb and the Observance of Sunday (2003) (0)
Response to Reviewers (2014) (0)
Heaven and Hell (1989) (0)
In Search of the Soul, by John Cottingham (2020) (0)
The Life and Moral Teaching of Jesus (2003) (0)
THE MEASURE OF THE UNIVERSE (1966) (0)
REPLY TO MY CRITICS (2008) (0)
Richard Swinburne, EPISTEMIC JUSTIFICATION (2020) (0)
God and the Ethics of Belief: The Probability of the Resurrection (2005) (0)
Eternal and Immutable (1993) (0)
Book reviews (1974) (0)
Natural Evil and the Scope for Response (1998) (0)
Distance and Direction — (ii) Secondary Tests (1968) (0)
Perfectly Good and a Source of Moral Obligation (1993) (0)
Place and Matter (1968) (0)
The Original Revelation (1991) (0)
The Need for Revelation (1991) (0)
OUR SOUL MAKES US WHO WE ARE (2021) (0)
EPILOGUE: SO WHAT? (1996) (0)
The Possibility of Incarnation (1994) (0)
6.1 'A DEFENSE OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY' (2001) (0)
Weighing Good Against Bad (1998) (0)
Distance and Direction — (i) Primary Tests (1968) (0)
Issue six• spring 2004 (2009) (0)
God's Moral Goodness (2022) (0)
History and Philosophy of Science (1967) (0)
Physical Limits to Knowledge of the Universe — (i) Horizons (1968) (0)
Vincent Brümmer. Theological and Philosophical Inquiry: An Introduction . Pp. 310. (London: MacMillan Press Limited, 1981.) £13.00 h/c. £5.95 p/b. (1982) (0)
Jesus and the Total Available Evidence: Second Response to Cavin and Colombetti (2014) (0)
SWINBURNE ON RELIGION AND ETHICS. Author's reply (2008) (0)
Primary and secondary tests (1969) (0)
THE IMPLICATIONS OF INDUCTION (1971) (0)
The Marks of an Incarnate God (2003) (0)
Wilfrid Cantwell Smith. Faith and Belief. Pp. 347. (Princeton University Press, 1979.) £11.70. (1980) (0)
In Defence of Open Theism (2017) (0)
The Evidence of Incarnation (1994) (0)
Reply: A Further Defence of Christian Revelation (1993) (0)
Introduction: Necessity and Contingency (1968) (0)
EVIDENTIALISM, KNOWLEDGE, AND EVIDENCE POSSESSION (2018) (0)
The Divine Nature (1994) (0)
The Freedom of the Will (1997) (0)
Jesus Implied His Divinity (2003) (0)
Time Measurement and Absolute Time (1968) (0)
The Intrinsic Probability of Theism (1991) (0)
In defence of logical nominalism: reply to Leftow1 (2010) (0)
The argument to God from fine-tuning reassessed: Richard Swinburne (2003) (0)
Two Peas in a Single (2015) (0)
The Words of Theology (2016) (0)
Principles for Weighing Evidence (2003) (0)
Logical Limits to Spatio-Temporal Knowledge (1968) (0)
COHEN ON EVIDENTIAL SUPPORT (1972) (0)
God’s Necessary Properties (2016) (0)
Holy and Worthy of Worship (1993) (0)
Man's Moral Condition (1989) (0)
Response to Essays on Are We Bodies or Souls? (2021) (0)
The Evils of Sin and Agnosticism (1998) (0)
THE LANGUAGE OF TIME (1969) (0)
Property and Event Dualism (2012) (0)
Theories of Synchronic Justification (2001) (0)
God and Morality: God and Morality (2014) (0)
Bayes, God, and the Multiverse1 (2016) (0)
Swinburne’s attack on Byron (2013) (0)
Sensations and Brain‐Events (1997) (0)
The Justification of Explanation (1991) (0)
The Appearances of the Risen Jesus (2003) (0)
Argument z celowości (The argument from design) (2012) (0)
A cartesian argument for substance dualism (2023) (0)
The Size and Geometry of the Universe (1968) (0)
Thought and Feeling (1998) (0)
Review of Richard Swinburne's The Evolution of the Soul (2014) (0)
Physical Limits to Knowledge of the Universe — (ii) Past/Future Sign Asymmetry (1968) (0)
Two Peas in a Single Polytheistic Pod: (2016) (0)

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