key thinkers

Question 1

1.1 Design argument

Answer 1

William Paley
David Hume

Question 1

1.2 Cosmological argument

Answer 1

Aquinas
David Hume
Immanuel Kant

Question 2

1.3 Ontological argument

Answer 2

Anselm
Bertrand Russell

Question 3

2.1 Nature of religious experience

Answer 3

William James
Rudolph Otto

Question 4

2.2 influence of religious experience as an argument for the existence of God

Answer 4

Richard swinburne
John Hick
Michael Persinger
Richard Dawkins

Question 5

3.1 Problem of Evil and suffering

Answer 5

David Hume
Mackie

Question 6

3.2 Theodicies and solutions to the problem of evil

Answer 6

Augustine
Irenaeus

Question 7

4.1 analogy and symbol

religious language

Answer 7

Aquinas
Paul Tillich

Question 8

4.2 Verification and falsification debates

Answer 8

A J Ayer
B Mitchell

Question 9

4.3 Language games

Answer 9

L Wittgenstein
W D phillips

Question 10

5.1 Context to critiques of religious belief and points for discussion

Answer 10

Richard Dawkins
M Westphal

Question 11

5.2 A comparison between a critique of religion…

Answer 11

Bertrand Russell
Frederick Copleston

Question 12

6.1 Views about life after death across a range of religious traditions

Answer 12

John Hick

Question 13

6.2 Points for discussion about life after death

Answer 13

Plato
Aristotle

Question 14

6.3 Religion and science debates and their significance for philosophy of religion

Answer 14

Charles Darwin
Richard Dawkins