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741An agent-based approach to the problem of evilInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 39 (3). 1996.
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219Admiration and the AdmirableAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 89 (1): 205-221. 2015.The category of the admirable has received little attention in the history of philosophy, even among virtue ethicists. I don't think we can understand the admirable without investigating the emotion of admiration. I have argued that admiration is an emotion in which the object is ‘seen as admirable’, and which motivates us to emulate the admired person in the relevant respect. Our judgements of admirability can be distorted by the malfunction of our disposition to admiration. We all know many wa…Read more
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37Reported Miracles: A Critique of HumePhilosophical Review 105 (4): 538. 1996.Joseph Houston’s book is a fine contribution to the philosophical investigation of the value of miracle reports for religious apologetics. It covers a wide range of arguments of interest to philosophers about the concept of miracles and the justifiability of belief in their occurrence, but it is also rich in theological and biblical sources. Houston’s reasoning throughout is careful and subtle, but neither technical nor excessively pedantic. So while the book is primarily intended for scholars, …Read more
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10Virtue Theory and ExemplarsPhilosophical News 4. 2012.This essay outlines an approach to virtue theory that makes the foundation of the theory direct reference to virtuous exemplars, modeled on the famous theory of direct reference, devised in the seventies by Hilary Putnam and Saul Kripke. The basic idea is that exemplars are persons like that, just as water is liquid like that, and humans are members of the same species as that, and so on. In this theory exemplars are picked out directly through the emotion of admiration rather than through the s…Read more
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50Ethical and Epistemic Egoism and the Ideal of AutonomyEpisteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 4 (3): 252-263. 2007.
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2919Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free WillReligious Studies 21 (3): 279-298. 1985.If God knows everything he must know the future, and if he knows the future he must know the future acts of his creatures. But then his creatures must act as he knows they will act. How then can they be free? This dilemma has a long history in Christian philosophy and is now as hotly disputed as ever. The medieval scholastics were virtually unanimous in claiming both that God is omniscient and that humans have free will, though they disagreed in their accounts of how the two are compatible. With…Read more
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421On EpistemologyWadsworth. 2009.These books will prove valuable to philosophy teachers and their students as well as to other readers who share a general interest in philosophy.
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16Self-Trust and the Diversity of ReligionsPhilosophic Exchange 36 (1). 2006.The diversity of religions poses two, distinct challenges for belief in a particular religion. The first challenge is based upon an epistemic egalitarianism, according to which all normal human beings are roughly equal in their ability to get knowledge. I argue that this challenge is based on some mistaken assumptions. The second challenge arises from our admiration of people of other faiths. I argue that this second challenge is very serious, since it is rooted in our trust of ourselves.
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Alan G. Padgett, God, Eternity, and the Nature of Time (review)Philosophy in Review 13 179-181. 1993.
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4John Martin Fischer, ed., God, Foreknowledge, and Freedom Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 10 (8): 309-311. 1990.
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69Perfect Goodness and Divine Motivation TheoryMidwest Studies in Philosophy 21 (1): 296-309. 1997.
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23Hermes and Athena: Biblical Exegesis and Philosophical TheologyPhilosophical Books 36 (1): 74-77. 1995.
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92Epistemic Value MonismIn John Greco (ed.), Ernest Sosa: And His Critics, Wiley-blackwell. 2004.This chapter contains section titled: The Value Problem Sosa's Solution Epistemically Valuable False Beliefs Organic Unities Gettier.
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6Religious Knowledge and the Virtues of the MindIn Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (ed.), Rational Faith: Catholic Responses to Reformed Epistemology, Notre Dame Press. pp. 199-225. 1993.