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48Maria Alvarez , Kinds of Reasons: An Essay in the Philosophy of Action . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 31 (4): 245-247. 2011.
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48Escapism, religious luck, and divine reasons for action: Andrei A. Buckareff & Allen plugReligious Studies 45 (1): 63-72. 2009.In our paper, ‘Escaping hell: divine motivation and the problem of hell’, we defended a theory of hell that we called ‘escapism’. We argued that, given God's just and loving character, it would be most rational for Him to maintain an open-door policy to those who are in hell, allowing them an unlimited number of chances to be reconciled with God and enjoy communion with Him. In this paper we reply to two recent objections to our original paper. The first is an argument from religious luck offere…Read more
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134Compatibilism and doxastic controlPhilosophia 34 (2): 143-152. 2006.Sharon Ryan has recently argued that if one has compatibilist intuitions about free action, then one should reject the claim that agents cannot exercise direct voluntary control over coming to believe. In this paper I argue that the differences between beliefs and actions make the expectation of direct voluntary control over coming to believe unreasonable. So Ryan's theory of doxastic agency is untenable.
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57Action and Doxastic Control: The Asymmetry Thesis RevisitedEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy 4 (1): 5-12. 2008.
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152Reasons explanations and pure agencyPhilosophical Studies 112 (2): 135-145. 2003.We focus on the recent non-causal theory of reasons explanationsof free action proffered by a proponent of the agency theory, Timothy O'Connor. We argue that the conditions O'Connor offersare neither necessary nor sufficient for a person to act for a reason. Finally, we note that the role O'Connor assigns toreasons in the etiology of actions results in further conceptual difficulties for agent-causalism.
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5427Hell and the Problem of EvilIn Justin P. McBrayer & Daniel Howard‐Snyder (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 128-143. 2013.The case is discussed for the doctrine of hell as posing a unique problem of evil for adherents to the Abrahamic religions who endorse traditional theism. The problem is particularly acute for those who accept retributivist formulations of the doctrine of hell according to which hell is everlasting punishment for failing to satisfy some requirement. Alternatives to retributivism are discussed, including the unique difficulties that each one faces
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89Pantheism and Saving GodSophia 55 (3): 347-355. 2016.In this paper, I examine Mark Johnston’s panentheistic account of the metaphysics of the divine developed in his recent book, Saving God: Religion After Idolatry. On Johnston’s account, God is the ‘Highest One’ and is identified with ‘the outpouring of Being by way of its exemplification in ordinary existents for the sake of the self-disclosure of Being’. Johnston eschews supernaturalism and takes his position to be consistent with what he calls ‘legitimate naturalism’ which he takes to be some …Read more
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Philosophy of Action |
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Philosophy of Religion |
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Causal Theory of Action |
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