Education
University of Edinburgh, and Oriel College, Oxford.
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Main publications:
(1970) Survival and Disembodied Existence, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
(1971) Religion and Rationality. New York: Random House.
(1971) Problems of Religious Knowledge, London: Macmillan.
(1975) Hume, London: Macmillan.
(1983) God and Skepticism, Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
(1985) Butler, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (1989) (ed.) Faith, London: Macmillan.
(1992) David Hume: An Introduction to his Philosophical System, West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
(1993) 'A belated return’, in Kelly James Clark (ed.) Philosophers Who Believe, Downer’s Grove: Inter Varsity Press, pp. 223-36 (autobiographical).
Secondary literature:
Macintosh, J. J. and Meynell. H. A. (eds) (1994) Faith, Scepticism and Rationality: A Festschrift for Terence Penelhum, Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
Terence Michael Penelhum
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Lecturer to Associate Professor, University of Alberta, 1953-1963. Prolessorof Philosophy (196378) and then of Religious Studies (1978-1988), University of Calgary.
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Main publications:
(1970) Survival and Disembodied Existence, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
(1971) Religion and Rationality. New York: Random House.
(1971) Problems of Religious Knowledge, London: Macmillan.
(1975) Hume, London: Macmillan.
(1983) God and Skepticism, Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
(1985) Butler, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (1989) (ed.) Faith, London: Macmillan.
(1992) David Hume: An Introduction to his Philosophical System, West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
(1993) 'A belated return’, in Kelly James Clark (ed.) Philosophers Who Believe, Downer’s Grove: Inter Varsity Press, pp. 223-36 (autobiographical).
Secondary literature:
Macintosh, J. J. and Meynell. H. A. (eds) (1994) Faith, Scepticism and Rationality: A Festschrift for Terence Penelhum, Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
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Views
Appreciative of the benefits of analytical techniques, Penelhum has consistently applied them to substantive philosophical questions, especially in epistemology and philosophy of religion. He has countered scepticism not least that of religious apologists who welcome sceptical assessments of reason as leaving room for faith and commitment. An authority on Butler and Hume, he has provided careful and balanced evaluations of their arguments. Thus, while in no way neglecting Butler’s contribution to ethics, he has elucidated his significant arguments qua philosopher of religion; and while not denying Hume's widely acknowledged importance for epistemology, he has brought his arguments in the fields of psychology, ethics and religion into greater prominence. In the latter part of his career Penelhum has viewed his philosophical concerns within the broader context of a department of Religious Studies.
