After the Australopithecines (Stratigraphy, Ecology and Culture Change in the Middle Pleistocene) ||

This book stands in the tradition of philosophers who advance the rationality of faith. Yet this book goes beyond their accounts, for it not only defends the view that faith can be termed rational, but it also considers the different senses in which faith can be termed rational. While this book advances the idea that faith as a general category can be termed rational, it does not investigate in a detailed way whether there are arguments for the rationality of particular faiths which would go beyond the arguments for the rationality of faith as a general category. Besides discussing whether betting on God in Pascal's wager and believing in miracles are forms of the rationality of faith, I will provide unique solutions to the problem of evil and the paradoxes of omnipotence and omniscience. General Editor’s Preface Preface The Stratigraphic Record of Deep-Sea Cores and Its Implications for the Assessment of Glacials, Interglacials, Stadials, and Interstadials in the Mid-Pleistocene Pleistocene Littoral-Sedimentary Cycles of the Mediterranean Basin: A. Mallorquin View The Contribution of the Volcanic Massif Central of France to European Quaternary Chronology Loess Stratigraphy of Central Europe The Mid-Pleistocene of the Rhine Basin Middle Pleistocene Sedimentary Sequences of in East Anglia (United Kingdom) The Correlation and Duration of Middle Pleistocene Interglacial Periods in Northwest Europe The Macro-faunas of Continental Europe During the Middle Pleistocene: Stratigraphic Sequence and Problems of Intercorrelation Mid-Pleistocene Microfaunas of Continental Europe and Adjoining Areas The Mammalian Faunas and Hominid Fossils of the Middle Pleistocene of the Maghreb Pleistocene Faunal Evolution in Africa and Eurasia Cultural Patterns in the Olduvai Sequence Stratigraphy and Cultural Patterns in East Africa During the Middle Ranges of Pleistocene Time Demography, Subsistence, and Culture During the Acheulian in Southern Africa Archeological Occurrences in the Middle Pleistocene of Israel A Comparison of the Late Acheulian Industries of Africa and the Middle East Acheulian Sites and Stratigraphy in Iberia and the Maghreb Cultural Evolution in France in its Paleoecological Setting During the Middle Pleistocene Middle Pleistocene Hominids Geological and Ecological Perspectives on the Middle Pleistocene Sorting out the Muddle in the Middle: An Anthropologist’s Post-Conference Appraisal Appendix 1: Correlation Charts Compiled at the Symposium Appendix 2: Delimitation of the Geologic Time Term “Middle Pleistocene” Biographical Notes