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All the ideas for 'Evil and Omnipotence', 'The Empirical Stance' and 'The Idea of Overlapping Consensus'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

12772

Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise [Fraassen]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

12771

Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true? [Fraassen]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

12773

Analytic philosophy has an exceptional arsenal of critical tools [Fraassen]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

12770

We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods [Fraassen]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation

12769

Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values [Fraassen]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 4. Explanation Doubts / a. Explanation as pragmatic

12768

We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / b. Against communitarianism

23420

In a pluralist society we can't expect a community united around one conception of the good [Rawls]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / a. Problem of Evil

1472	The propositions that God is good and omnipotent, and that evil exists, are logically contradictory [Mackie, by PG]

1473	Is evil an illusion, or a necessary contrast, or uncontrollable, or necessary for human free will? [Mackie, by PG]