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1The Reality of Time and the Existence of God (review)International Studies in Philosophy 23 (3): 98-98. 1991.
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5Emergent Dualism and Emergent CreationismPhilosophia Christi 20 (1): 93-97. 2018.Joshua Farris offers “emergent creationism” as an alternative to emergent dualism. It is argued that emergent creationism cannot deliver some of the advantages claimed for it, and that Farris’s objections to emergent dualism are not compelling.
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9The transcendental refutation of determinismSouthern Journal of Philosophy 11 (3): 175-183. 1973.
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12The foreknowledge conundrumInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 50 (1/3): 97-114. 2001.
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4The constitution view of persons: A critiqueInternational Philosophical Quarterly 44 (1): 23-34. 2004.This paper discusses the “constitution view” of human persons, as set forth by Lynne Rudder Baker in her book, Persons and Bodies. The metaphysical notion of constitution is explained and briefly defended. It is shown, however, that the view that human persons are constituted by their bodies faces difficulties in specifying the “person-favorable conditions” under which a human body constitutes a person. Furthermore, none of the arguments in support of the claim that humans are constituted by (bu…Read more
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27Response to John Haldane’s “Is the Soul the Form of the Body?”American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87 (3): 517-520. 2013.
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7The Constitution View of PersonsInternational Philosophical Quarterly 44 (1): 23-34. 2004.This paper discusses the “constitution view” of human persons, as set forth by Lynne Rudder Baker in her book, Persons and Bodies. The metaphysical notion of constitution is explained and briefly defended. It is shown, however, that the view that human persons are constituted by their bodies faces difficulties in specifying the “person-favorable conditions” under which a human body constitutes a person. Furthermore, none of the arguments in support of the claim that humans are constituted by (bu…Read more
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8Theological Incompatibilism and the Necessity of the PresentFaith and Philosophy 28 (2): 224-229. 2011.Michael Rota has identified a problem in my argument for theological incompatibilism, and claims that it also undermines my argument against divinetimeless knowledge. I acknowledge the problem, but show that it is easily corrected and leaves my arguments unscathed.
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20The Dialectic of Soul and BodyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87 (3): 495-509. 2013.Thomistic dualism, based on the Aristotelian view of the soul as the form of the body, presents us with a conception of the person as part of the natural world in a way that deserves our attention. The view is outlined, following Eleonore Stump’s exposition, and some objections to it are noted. Consideration is then given to a modified version of Thomistic dualism developed by J. P. Moreland. Finally, attention is directed at the theory of “emergent dualism,” which obtains many of the benefits a…Read more
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8“The (Non)-Existence of Molinist Counterfactuals”In Ken Perszyk (ed.), Molinism: The Contemporary Debate, Oxford University Press. pp. 25--37. 2011.
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1The Foundations of TheismFaith and Philosophy 15 (1): 52-67. 1998.In the extensive literature that has accumulated around Reformed epistemology, some of the most interesting material is found in the debate on the foundations of theism between Philip Quinn and Alvin Plantinga. This essay assesses that debate and draws some tentative conclusions.
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5Should Natural Science Include Revealed Truth? A Response to PlantingaPerspectives on Science and Christian Faith 45 (1): 57-59. 1993.
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10Swinburne’s Modal Argument for DualismFaith and Philosophy 15 (3): 366-370. 1998.Most critics of Richard Swinburne’s modal argument for mind-body substance dualism have alleged that the argument is unsound, either because its premises are false or because it commits a modal fallacy. I show that the argument is epistemically circular, and thus provides no support for its conclusion even if it is sound.
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The many gods of Hick and MavrodesIn Kelly James Clark & Raymond J. VanArragon (eds.), Evidence and religious belief, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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6“The End of Human Life”: Buddhist, Process, and open Theist PerspectivesJournal of Chinese Philosophy 32 (2). 2005.
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2Hasker on OmniscienceFaith and Philosophy 4 (1): 86-92. 1987.I contend that William Hasker’s argument to show omniscience incompatible with human freedom trades on an ambiguity between altering and bringing about the past, and that it is the latter only which is invoked by one who thinks they are compatible. I then use his notion of precluding circumstances to suggest that what gives the appearance of our inability to freely bring about the future (and hence that omniscience is incompatible with freedom) is that, from God’s perspective of foreknowledge, i…Read more
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Theism and Evolutionary BiologyIn Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Wiley-blackwell. 1997.
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2The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism (review)Faith and Philosophy 28 (1): 108-111. 2011.
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21The Emergent SelfCornell University Press. 2001.In The Emergent Self, William Hasker joins one of the most heated debates in contemporary analytic philosophy, that over the nature of mind.
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2The absence of a timeless GodIn Gregory E. Ganssle & David M. Woodruff (eds.), God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature, Oxford University Press. pp. 182--206. 2001.
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2Review of Peter Van Inwagen, The Problem of Evil (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (3). 2007.