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85Christian MonotheismFaith and Philosophy 6 (1): 3-18. 1989.In this paper I present an argument that there can be no more than one God in a way which allows me to give the doctrine ofthe Trinity logical priority over the attributes traditionally used in arguments for God’s unicity. The argument that there is at most one God makes no assumptions about the particular attributes included in divinity. It uses only the Identity of Indiscemibles and a Principle of Plenitude. I then offer a theory on the relationship between individuals and kinds which allows m…Read more
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317OmnisubjectivityIn L. Kvanvig Jonathan (ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Oxford University Press. pp. 231-248. 2013.
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617The Moral Gap (review)Philosophical Review 108 (2): 291-293. 1999.The title of Hare’s book refers to the gap between the demand that morality places on us and our natural capacity to live by it. Such a gap is paradoxical if we accept the “‘ought’ implies ‘can”’ principle. The solution, Hare argues, is that the gap is filled by the Christian God. So we ought to be moral and can do so—with divine assistance. Hare’s statement and defense of the existence of the gap combines a rigorously Kantian notion of the moral demand with a rigorously Calvinist notion of huma…Read more
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6Intellectual motivation and the good of truthIn Michael Raymond DePaul & Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (eds.), Intellectual virtue: perspectives from ethics and epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 135--154. 2003.
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10Recent Work on Divine Foreknowledge and Free WillIn Robert Kane (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, Oxford University Press. pp. 45-64. 2001.
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761First Person and Third Person Reasons and Religious EpistemologyEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 3 (2). 2011.In this paper I argue that there are two kinds of epistemic reasons. One kind is irreducibly first personal -- what I call deliberative reasons. The other kind is third personal -- what I call theoretical reasons. I argue that attending to this distinction illuminates a host of problems in epistemology in general and in religious epistemology in particular. These problems include (a) the way religious experience operates as a reason for religious belief, (b) how we ought to understand religious …Read more
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234Virtue epistemology: essays on epistemic virtue and responsibility (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2001.Virtue Epistemology is a new movement receiving the bulk of recent attention from top epistemologists and ethicists; this volume reflects the best work in that vein. Included are unpublished articles by such eminent philosophers as Robert Audi, Simon Blackburn, Alvin Goldman, Christopher Hookway, Keith Lehrer, and Ernest Sosa
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9What if the impossible had been actualIn Michael D. Beaty (ed.), Christian Theism and the Problems of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 165--183. 1990.
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1Epistemic self-trust and the consensus gentium argumentIn Kelly James Clark & Raymond J. VanArragon (eds.), Evidence and religious belief, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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43Rational Faith: Catholic Responses to Reformed Epistemology (edited book)Notre Dame Press. 1993.Rational Faith contains nine new essays by Catholic philosophers who critically evaluate the recent work of the Reformed epistemologists, including Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff and George Mavrodes. Although the contributors employ a distinctly Catholic perspective, their papers are by no means wholly polemical; instead, each reflects an appreciation of the importance of Reformed epistemology and its impact on contemporary religious philosophy.
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5Omniscience, time, and freedomIn William Mann (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 3-26. 2004.
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117The Virtues of God and the Foundations of EthicsFaith and Philosophy 15 (4): 538-553. 1998.In this paper I give a theological foundation to a radical type of virtue ethics I call motivation-based. In motivation-based virtue theory all moral concepts are derivative from the concept of a good motive, the most basic component of a virtue, where what I mean by a motive is an emotion that initiates and directs action towards an end. Here I give a foundation to motivation-based virtue theory by making the motivations of one person in particular the ultimate foundation of all moral value, an…Read more
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28A New Foreknowledge DilemmaProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 63 (n/a): 139. 1989.
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271Morality and religionIn William J. Wainwright (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of religion, Oxford University Press. 2005.Almost all religions contain a code of morality, and in spite of the factthat there are moral codes and philosophies that do not rely upon anyreligion, it has been traditionally argued that there are at least threeimportant ways in which morality needs religion: the goal of the morallife is unreachable without religious practice, religion is necessary toprovide moral motivation, and religion provides morality with itsfoundation and justification. These three ways in which morality may needreligi…Read more
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2The admirable life and the desirable lifeIn Timothy Chappell (ed.), Values and virtues: Aristotelianism in contemporary ethics, Oxford University Press. 2006.