Daniel_Cheung
07-05-2008, 11:59 PM
這書是兩位著名形而上學家對論苦難問題、對上帝的知識和自然主義。而書評人亦十分有名氣，對兩人的對論寫了持平和精闢的撮要簡介。正如書評人所說，This is a very fine book, presenting arguments for and against theism and naturalism by two very distinguished philosophers. I strongly recommend it for graduate level courses in philosophy of religion.
Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley, Knowledge of God, Blackwell Publishing, 2008, 270pp., $34.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780631193647.
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=13485
Reviewed by William L. Rowe, Purdue University
The first two chapters -- Plantinga's "Against Naturalism" and Tooley's "Does God Exist?" -- make clear the central issues in the debate between these two distinguished philosophers. Plantinga provides an account of how faith, "belief in the central features of the Christian message", can be knowledge. For if the belief-producing process includes the activity of the Holy Spirit, and works the way it was designed, "according to a design plan successfully aimed at truth", then "if it is held with sufficient firmness (and assuming that it is true), it will constitute knowledge" (p. 12). He rejects naturalism since it cannot accommodate the idea of proper function "for such organisms as plants and animals and human beings" and, if true, "leads directly to Humean skepticism, the condition in which you have a defeater for whatever you believe and cannot sensibly trust your cognitive faculties" (p. 19). He suggests that the reason naturalism can't accommodate the notion of proper function "is that this notion, the notion of proper function, essentially involves the aims and intentions of one or more conscious and intelligent designers" (p. 29). He also argues that naturalism leads to skepticism, is self-defeating ("if it is true, it is irrational to believe it"), and cannot accommodate belief ("if naturalism is true, no one believes anything") (p. 19)...
Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley, Knowledge of God, Blackwell Publishing, 2008, 270pp., $34.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780631193647.
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=13485
Reviewed by William L. Rowe, Purdue University
The first two chapters -- Plantinga's "Against Naturalism" and Tooley's "Does God Exist?" -- make clear the central issues in the debate between these two distinguished philosophers. Plantinga provides an account of how faith, "belief in the central features of the Christian message", can be knowledge. For if the belief-producing process includes the activity of the Holy Spirit, and works the way it was designed, "according to a design plan successfully aimed at truth", then "if it is held with sufficient firmness (and assuming that it is true), it will constitute knowledge" (p. 12). He rejects naturalism since it cannot accommodate the idea of proper function "for such organisms as plants and animals and human beings" and, if true, "leads directly to Humean skepticism, the condition in which you have a defeater for whatever you believe and cannot sensibly trust your cognitive faculties" (p. 19). He suggests that the reason naturalism can't accommodate the notion of proper function "is that this notion, the notion of proper function, essentially involves the aims and intentions of one or more conscious and intelligent designers" (p. 29). He also argues that naturalism leads to skepticism, is self-defeating ("if it is true, it is irrational to believe it"), and cannot accommodate belief ("if naturalism is true, no one believes anything") (p. 19)...