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Robert Merrihew Adams
Born(1937-09-08)September 8, 1937
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedApril 16, 2024(2024-04-16) (aged 86)
Montgomery, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater
  • Princeton University
  • Mansfield College, Oxford
  • Princeton Theological Seminary
  • Cornell University
Spouse
Marilyn McCord Adams
(m. 1966; died 2017)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
Doctoral studentsDerk Pereboom
Main interests
  • Metaphysics
  • philosophy of religion
  • ethics
Notable ideas
Divine command theory

Robert Merrihew Adams FBA (September 8, 1937 – April 16, 2024) was an American analytic philosopher, who specialized in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and the history of early modern philosophy.

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Robert Merrihew Adams FBA (September 8, 1937 – April 16, 2024) was an American analytic philosopher, who specialized in metaphysics, philosophy of religion...

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Divine command theory

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presented various versions of divine command theory; more recently, Robert Merrihew Adams has proposed a "modified divine command theory" based on the omnibenevolence...

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Robert Adams

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teacher of Advaita Vedanta (Non-dualism) Robert Merrihew Adams (born 1937), American philosopher Rob Adams (architect) (born 1948), director of City...

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Marilyn McCord Adams

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and Wilmah Brown McCord. In 1966, she married the philosopher Robert Merrihew Adams. Adams was educated at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign...

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Utilitarianism

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in prioritarianism. Motive utilitarianism was first proposed by Robert Merrihew Adams in 1976. Whereas act utilitarianism requires us to choose our actions...

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Gnosticism

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ISBN 978-0-00-710071-2. Haardt, Robert (1967). Die Gnosis: Wesen und Zeugnisse (in German). Salzburg: Otto-Müller-Verlag. Translated as Haardt, Robert (1971). Gnosis:...

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Agnosticism

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Revisited: Robert G. Ingersoll and the Bible". Journal of the Historical Society. 11 (2): 211–238. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5923.2011.00330.x. Ingersoll, Robert Green...

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Problem of evil

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|website= ignored (help) Allen, Diogenes (1990). Marilyn McCord Adams and Robert Merrihew Adams (ed.). The Problem of Evil. Oxford University Press. pp. 204–206...

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2024 in philosophy

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– March 8, 2024), American philosopher and historian of science Robert Merrihew Adams (September 8, 1937 – April 16, 2024), American analytic philosopher...

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Philosophy of religion

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philosophers like William Alston, John Mackie, Alvin Plantinga, Robert Merrihew Adams, Richard Swinburne, and Antony Flew not only to introduce new problems...

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Euthyphro dilemma

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Anchor. Adams, Robert Merrihew (1979). "Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again". Journal of Religious Ethics. 7 (1): 66–79. Adams, Robert Merrihew (1999)...

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List of philosophies

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Analytic philosophy

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applied analytic philosophy of language to religious language. Robert Merrihew Adams also defended divine command theory, and worked on the relationship...

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Henotheism

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Archived 2020-11-11 at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopædia Britannica (2014) Robert Karl Gnuse (1997). No Other Gods: Emergent Monotheism in Israel. Bloomsbury...

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Deism

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meaning. The term deist with its current meaning first appears in English in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621). The first major statement of...

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Anukulchandra Chakravarty

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Pantheism

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Religion" (Excerpt and review). Raab Collection. Retrieved 5 June 2012. Adams, Guy (17 April 2011). "'Pantheist' Lincoln would be unelectable today"....

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List of schools of philosophy

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Deaths in April 2024

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Transcendentalism

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Contemporary Hinduism: ritual, culture, and practice, ABC-CLIO Sharf, Robert H. (1995), "Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience"...

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Actualism

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actual world around us. From an actualist point of view, such as Robert Merrihew Adams', possible worlds are nothing more than fictions created within...

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Metaphysical naturalism

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115–129. doi:10.1111/1468-0114.00053. Carrier 2005, pp. 181–188 Books Audi, Robert (1996). "Naturalism". In Borchert, Donald M. (ed.). The Encyclopedia of...

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Infidel

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International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 260; p. 302. Williams, Robert A. The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest...

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