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    Robert Merrihew Adams — Carmelics
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    Robert Merrihew Adams

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy of Religion

    b. 1937

    Robert Merrihew Adams is an American analytic philosopher known for his work in philosophy of religion, metaphysics, ethics, and the history of modern philosophy. He has made influential contributions to theistic ethics, Leibniz scholarship, and the metaphysics of virtue, arguing for a modified divine command theory and a Platonic account of the good.

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    Notable Achievements

    1

    Developed a modified divine command theory of ethical wrongness

    2

    Authored 'Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics' (1999)

    3

    Wrote 'Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist' (1994), a major work in Leibniz scholarship

    4

    Advanced influential work on the problem of evil and middle knowledge

    5

    Long tenure at UCLA, Yale, and Oxford shaping contemporary philosophy of religion

    Positions & Arguments

    (5)

    Modality & Possibility

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    The truth of a proposition in a world does not entail that the proposition exists in that world

    claim

    Allison's premise (6) is too weak to be a plausible reconstruction of Kant's non-spatiality thesis

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    No-trace actualists cannot provide a standard compositional semantics for modal languages.

    Truth & Knowledge

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    The truth of a proposition in a world does not entail that the proposition exists in that world

    Divine Attributes

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    God must exemplify pain.

    Against an attribute of God

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    God must exemplify pain.

    Aesthetics

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    Moral and aesthetic excellence are objective qualities in objects, not merely projections of the pleasure they cause in observers.

    Virtue Ethics

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    Moral and aesthetic excellence are objective qualities in objects, not merely projections of the pleasure they cause in observers.

    Perception

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    Allison's premise (6) is too weak to be a plausible reconstruction of Kant's non-spatiality thesis

    At a Glance

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    Analytic Philosophy of Religion

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    Modality & Possibility3
    Against an attribute of God1
    Truth & Knowledge1
    Virtue Ethics1
    Perception1
    Divine Attributes1
    Aesthetics1

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