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    Michael Levine — Carmelics
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    Michael Levine

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy of Religion

    Michael P. Levine is a contemporary Australian philosopher specializing in philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and ethics. He is best known for his systematic treatment of pantheism as a philosophically viable alternative to classical theism, and for critical work on the logical and probabilistic structure of arguments concerning God's existence. He has held academic positions at the University of Western Australia.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Authored 'Pantheism: A Non-Theistic Concept of Deity' (1994), the most sustained analytic treatment of pantheism

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    Critiqued probabilistic and evidential arguments in philosophy of religion for failing to account for all relevant available evidence

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    Contributed to debates on the coherence and viability of non-theistic religious worldviews

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    Wrote the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on pantheism

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    Engaged critically with fine-tuning and design arguments in analytic theology

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    The objection that probabilistic arguments are only of interest when founded on all relevant available evidence is not a legitimate objection against confirmatory probabilistic arguments

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