Ethics of Belief: Essays in Tribute to D.Z. Phillips

1. Front Matter

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2. Acknowledgments

   Pages 1-1

3. Ethics of belief: introduction

   • Eugene Thomas Long

   Pages 3-6

4. The duty to believe according to the evidence

   • Allen Wood

   Pages 7-24

5. The virtues of belief: toward a non-evidentialist ethics of belief-formation

   • Richard Amesbury

   Pages 25-37

6. The ethics of belief and two conceptions of christian faith

   • Van A. Harvey

   Pages 39-54

7. Choosing to believe

   • Ronney Mourad

   Pages 55-69

8. Can religious arguments persuade?

   • Jennifer Faust

   Pages 71-86

9. Belief, faith, and acceptance

   • Robert Audi

   Pages 87-102

10. D. Z. Phillips and reasonable belief

    • John H. Whittaker

    Pages 103-129

11. D. Z. Phillips on the grammar of “God”

    • Anselm K. Min

    Pages 131-146

12. Tribute to Dewi Z. Phillips

    • Patrick Horn

    Pages 147-148

Eugene Thomas Long Originally published in the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Volume 63, Nos 1–3. DOI: 10. 1007/s11153-007-9155-4 © Springer Science+Business Media B. V. 2007 This volume is presented as a tribute to the life and work of D. Z. Phillips. Six of the articles were originally presented at the annual conference on the philosophy of religion organized by Phillips and held at Claremont Graduate University, February 9–10, 2007. Unfortunately, Phillipsdidnotlivetoparticipateintheconferenceitself. HediedunexpectedlyJuly25,2006 in the library of his beloved University of Wales, Swansea. Previously published volumes of essays,basedonconferencesorganizedbyPhillipsinClaremont,includedachapterentitled, “Voices in Discussion,” in which Phillips provided his own reactions to the discussions wr- ten almost immediately after the conference. Sadly, this volume appears without the addition of his voice. Born in Morriston, near Swansea, Phillips was a Welsh speaker, a strong supporter of Welsh speaking schools and the author of many works in philosophy and literature in Welsh and English. Known widely as the leading representative of the movement in the philo- phy of religion called Wittgensteinianism, Phillips spent much of his effort challenging the tendency of philosophers to elevate one kind of discourse to the point where it becomes the norm by which other forms of discourse are to be judged.

• D.Z. Phillips
• Ethics of belief
• Rationality of religious belief
• Religion
• Religious language
• ethics
• theology

• University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

  Eugene Thomas Long

• Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, USA

  Patrick Horn

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