Published Books.
The Reality of Time and the Existence of God: The Project of Proving God’s Existence
1998
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Basing his argument for the existence of God on the continuous nature of the temporal world, Braine here posits that the philosophy of religion cannot be continued as a separate discipline: the solution of its problems will be the fruit of the correct telesis of the problems of general philosophy in their complex interrelationships.
The Human Person:
Animal and Spirit
1992
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A philosophical work that addresses the validity of the question: What is it for the human being to be an animal, and for this animal to be a spirit? Braine argues that the perspectives of materialism and dualism are different casts of the same flawed mold and offers a holistic alternative. Braine further argues that perception is inseparable…
Language and Human Understanding: The Roots of Creativity in Speech and Thought
2014
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Human speech and writing reveal our powers both to generalize and to criticize our own procedures. For this we must use words non-mechanically and with a freedom without definite limits, allowing mutual intelligibility…