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Reply to Timothy Hinton on Gareth Moore's Philosophy of God
Author(s) -
Robinson Howard
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/nbfr.12626
Subject(s) - philosophy , metaphysics , philosophy of language , epistemology , literal (mathematical logic) , positivism , theology , linguistics
Hinton's defence of Gareth's philosophy is welcome ‐ but I don't think it works. This is because he does not show how, on Gareth's theory, ‘God’ can be referential, and, if it is not referential, then ‘belief in God’ cannot be taken in any literal sense. Sadly, I stand by my original claim that the radical, Phillipsian Wittgensteinianism that Gareth adopts is a form of informal positivism that only allows an expressivist sense to religious, and, indeed, all metaphysical language.