Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Reed A. Guy — Carmelics
    Thinkers/Reed A. Guy
    RA

    Reed A. Guy

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy of Religion

    Reed A. Guy is a contemporary philosopher working at the intersection of philosophy of religion and philosophy of science. His work engages questions of emergence, causation, and divine action, particularly whether theistic accounts of creation require ongoing interventionist causation to explain the appearance of genuinely novel properties or entities in nature.

    Notable Achievements

    1

    Argued that divine creative intervention need not be causally necessary for the nonconservative emergence of new material properties

    2

    Contributed to debates on emergence and theism in contemporary philosophy of religion

    3

    Engaged with the relationship between naturalistic explanations and theological accounts of novelty in nature

    Positions & Arguments(1)

    Natural Theology

    claim

    Divine creative intervention is not causally necessary for the nonconservative appearance of new matter in steady-state cosmology.

    Causation

    claim

    Divine creative intervention is not causally necessary for the nonconservative appearance of new matter in steady-state cosmology.

    At a Glance

    Ideas

    1

    Topics

    2

    Era

    contemporary

    Tradition

    Analytic Philosophy of Religion

    Topic Influence

    Causation1
    Natural Theology1

    Related Thinkers

    Aristotle2 shared
    Thomas Aquinas
    2 shared
    Adolf Grünbaum2 shared
    Albert Einstein2 shared
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz2 shared
    Immanuel Kant2 shared
    John Earman2 shared
    Plato2 shared

    Dive Deeper

    Explore Causation→See Natural Theology→