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15Hume's Enquiry: Expanded and ExplainedRoutledge. 2021.Hume's Enquiry: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font, and analytic summaries of each section. The commentary is like a professor on hand to guide the reader through every line of the daunting prose and every move in the intricate argumentation. The unique design helps students learn how to read and engage with one of modern philosophy'…Read more
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7Commanding BeliefRatio 28 (2): 163-174. 2014.This essay shows three things: first, that we cannot comply with a command from God to believe in God; second, that God cannot command us to believe in God; and, third, that the divine command theory is false. The third conclusion follows from the second, and the second follows from the first. The essay focuses on an argument from the medieval Jewish philosopher, Hasdai Crescas. It also draws from, and is something of a sequel to, an argument from Brown and Nagasawa published previously in this …Read more
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1A proof of Exodus : Yehuda HaLevy and Jonathan Edwards walk into a barIn Samuel Lebens, Dani Rabinowitz & Aaron Segal (eds.), Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age, Oxford University Press, Usa. 2019.
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1The Necessity of IdealismIn Tyron Goldschmidt & Kenneth L. Pearce (eds.), Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics, Oxford University Press. pp. 34-49. 2017.
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The Afterlife in JudaismIn Benjamin Matheson & Yujin Nagasawa (eds.), Palgrave Handbook on the Afterlife, Palgrave. pp. 107-27. 2017.
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The Argument From NumbersIn Jerry L. Walls & Trent Dougherty (eds.), Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project, Oxford University Press. pp. 59-75. 2018.
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The argument from (natural) numbersIn Jerry L. Walls & Trent Dougherty (eds.), Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Religion |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Applied Ethics |
Jewish Philosophy |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
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Philosophy of Mind |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |