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Locke’s Miracle Mistake
In this paper, I argue that, despite Locke’s explicitly subjectivist definition of miracle, he in fact employs an objectivist understanding of the...
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From marginalized to miracle: critical bioregionalism, jungle farming and the move to millets in Karnataka, India
Historically marginalized foods, which occupy the social periphery, and often function as a bulwark in times of hunger, are increasingly being...
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Qur’anic Miracle Stories: Surprising Implications for Theodicy, Transience, and Freedom
Qur’anic miracle stories startle us. Being shocked and interrupted can sometimes be a good thing. Read within the larger Qur’anic discourse, miracle...
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“By Whose Authority?”: Polemical and Political Uses of Miracle Stories
Stories of miracles are found in nearly every religious tradition. Among the many ways religious communities use these stories of transcendent power...
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How to Tell a Miracle Story: The Amazing Deeds of Young Krishna
In the classical Sanskrit epic poem Harivaṃśa, Vaishampayana tells a “miracle story” concerning the young god Krishna, incarnate form of the Hindu...
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Miracle as Natural: A Contemporary Chinese American Religious Healer
I apply the Buddhist and Chinese religious understandings of miracles as natural events to a contemporary Chinese American religious healer who...
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Local-Miracle Compatibilism: A Critique
The Consequence Argument is one of the leading arguments for the incompatibility of causal determinism and free will in the sense of freedom to do...
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The Consequence Argument and the Possibility of the Laws of Nature Being Violated
In a recent paper, Brian Cutter objected to the consequence argument due to its dependence on the principle that miracle workers are metaphysically...
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Scientific Realism, Metaphysical Antirealism and the No Miracle Arguments
Many formulations of scientific realism (SR) include some commitment to metaphysical realism (MR). On the other hand, authors like Schlick, Carnap...
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Neither the “Devil’s Lettuce” nor a “Miracle Cure:” The Use of Medical Cannabis in the Care of Children and Youth
Lack of guidance and regulation for authorizing medical cannabis for conditions involving the health and neurodevelopment of children is ethically...
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Tinbergen’s four questions and the debate between scientific realism and selectionism
According to the no-miracle argument, scientific realism is the only view that does not render the predictive success of scientific theories...
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The Ethics of Wonder: Miracles, Magic, and Morality in Devotional Hinduism
This essay explores the important connection between the miraculous and the ethical, primarily through a study of early modern Hindu devotional...
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Miracles and the Uniformity of Nature
This chapter looks critically at the prevailing modern understanding of miracle, adapted from David Hume, where a miracle is a transgression by the...
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Scientific Realism: What Is at Stake?
This chapter begins by discussing what Bas van Fraassen called “the loss of reality objection”. Since models are constructed by our action of...
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Miracles: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion
This volume provides a comparative philosophical investigation into a particular concept from a variety of angles—in this case, the concept of...
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Miracles: So What?
Miracle stories persist in modern cultures, despite philosophical objections to their claims. They are a promising subject of comparative study...
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Investigating Miracles
Miracles are claimed everywhere, but the term miracle is problematic, typically defined negatively as an occurrence science cannot explain. In a...
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A deductive variation on the no miracles argument
The traditional No-Miracles Argument (TNMA) asserts that the novel predictive success of science would be a miracle, and thus too implausible to...
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How realist is informational structural realism?
Informational structural realism (ISR) offers a new way to understand the nature of the “structure” that structural realists claim our best...
