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A reply to Robert Larmer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2008

KIRK McDERMID
KIRK McDERMID
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy and Religion, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 07403
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Abstract

The metaphysics of miracles put forward in my article, ‘Miracles: metaphysics, physics and physicalism’, above (125–147) are, argues Robert Larmer, both unnecessary and unworkable. Here, I try more clearly to explain that my goal of saving important physicalist intuitions that are incompatible with both the ‘open-systems’ and ‘exemption’ approaches’ use of powerful ceteris paribus clauses. I also defend the two mechanisms proposed in the paper from Larmer's criticisms.

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Religious Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 161 - 164
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Copyright © 2008 Cambridge University Press

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