Richard M. Gale (July 13, 1932–July 19, 2015) was an American philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. Gale was known for defending the A-theory of time against the B-theory.
In his 1991 book On the Nature and Existence of God, Gale had criticized the idea central to Christian theism of an eternal, immutable and timeless God who is omniscient and omnipotent. But since 1999, he defended a cosmological argument for the existence of a necessary creator of the universe. Gale was not existentially religious and instead argued from the perspective of a "'detached … spectator of all time and eternity' following the logic wherever it leads".
Books 1968: The Language of Time, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1976: Negation and Non-being, American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph No. 10. Oxford: Blackwell 1991: On the Nature and Existence of God, London: Cambridge University Press 1999: The Divided Self of William James, London: Cambridge University Press 2004: The Philosophy of William James: an Introduction, London: Cambridge University Press 2007: On the Philosophy of Religion, Boston: Wadsworth 2010: John Dewey's Quest for Unity: The Journey of a Promethean Mystic, Amherst: Prometheus Press 2010: God and Metaphysics, Amherst: Prometheus Press
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Richard M. Gale @ PhilPapers