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1076Incarnation, Timelessness, and Leibniz's Law ProblemsIn Gregory E. Ganssle & David M. Woodruff (eds.), God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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184Justified Belief and Demon WorldsRes Philosophica 90 (2): 203-214. 2013.The New Demon World Objection claims that reliabilist accounts of justification are mistaken because there are justified empirical beliefs at demon worlds— worlds at which the subjects are systematically deceived by a Cartesian demon. In this paper, I defend strongly verific (but not necessarily reliabilist) accounts of justification by claiming that there are two ways to construct a theory of justification: by analyzing our ordinary concept of justification or by taking justification to be a th…Read more
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288On Privileging God's Moral GoodnessFaith and Philosophy 23 (4): 409-422. 2006.According to Eric Funkhouser, omnipotence and necessary moral perfection (what Funkhouser calls "impeccability") are not compatible. Funkhouser gives two arguments for this claim. In this paper, I argue that neither of Funkhouser's arguments is sound. The traditional theist can reasonably claim that, contra Funkhouser, (i) there is no possible being who possesses all of God's attributes sans impeccability, and (ii) the fact that there are things that God cannot do does not entail that God lacks …Read more
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562The real presence of an eternal GodIn Kevin Timpe (ed.), Metaphysics and God: Essays in Honor of Eleonore Stump, Routledge. 2009.
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1Charles Taliaferro, Consciousness and the Mind of God (review)Philosophy in Review 15 428-430. 1995.
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813Two factor theories, meaning wholism and intentionalistic psychology: A reply to FodorPhilosophical Psychology 5 (2): 133-151. 1992.In the third chapter of his book Psychosemantics , Jerry A. Fodor argues that the truth of meaning holism (the thesis that the content of a psychological state is determined by the totality of that state's epistemic liaisons) would be fatal for intentionalistic psychology. This is because holism suggests that no two people are ever in the same intentional state, and so a psychological theory that generalizes over such states will be composed of generalizations which fail to generalize. Fodor the…Read more
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4744The prima/ultima facie justification distinction in epistemologyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (3): 551-566. 1996.
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705Review of Matthias Steup (ed.), Knowledge, Truth, and Duty: Essays on Epistemic Justification, Responsibility, and Virtue (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (3). 2002.
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1232In this paper I argue for a version of the Total Evidence view according to which the rational response to disagreement depends upon one's total evidence. I argue that perceptual evidence of a certain kind is significantly weightier than many other types of evidence, including testimonial. Furthermore, what is generally called "The Uniqueness Thesis" is actually a conflation of two distinct principles that I dub "Evidential Uniqueness" and "Rationality Uniqueness." The former principle is likely…Read more
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20JL Schellenberg, Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 15 (1): 63-65. 1995.
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1008God, Supernatural Kinds, and the IncarnationReligious Studies 27 (3): 353-370. 1991.Traditionally, the term ’God’ has been understood either as a proper name or as a description. However, according to a new view, the term God’ in a sentence like "Jesus Christ is God" functions as a kind term, much as the term ’tiger’ functions in the sentence "Tigger is a tiger." In this paper I examine the claim that divinity can be construed as a ’supernatural’ kind, developing the outlines of an account of the semantics of God’ along these lines, and suggest that it might solve an important …Read more
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2207Defending Divine FreedomIn L. Kvanvig Jonathan (ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Oxford University Press. pp. 168-95. 2013.
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1230The IncarnationIn Chad V. Meister & Paul Copan (eds.), The Routledge companion to philosophy of religion, Routledge. 2007.
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930The Incarnation and the TrinityIn Michael J. Murray (ed.), Reason for the Hope Within, Eerdmans. 1999.
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2137On the Tenability of Brute Naturalism and the Implications of Brute TheismPhilosophia Christi 10 (2): 273-280. 2010.Timothy O’Connor’s book Theism and Ultimate Explanation offers a defense of a new version of the cosmological argument. In his discussion, O’Connor argues against the coherence of a brute fact “explanation” of the universe and for the claim that the God of theism cannot be logically contingent. In this paper, I take issue with both of these arguments. Regarding the former, I claim that contrary to what O’Connor asserts, we have no good reason to prefer an account according to which the universe …Read more
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19The Prima/Ultima Facie Justification Distinction in EpistemologyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (3): 551-566. 1996.
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20Common Core/Diversity Dilemma, Agatheism and the Epistemology of Religious BeliefEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8 (4): 213--226. 2016.The essay “The Common-Core/Diversity Dilemma: Revisions of Humean Thought, New Empirical Research, and the Limits of Rational Religious Belief‘ is a bold argument for the irrationality of “first-order‘ religious belief. However, unlike those associated with “New Atheism,‘ the paper’s authors Branden Thornhill-Miller and Peter Millican claim both that there are prospects for rational “second-order‘ religious belief and that religious belief and practice can play a positive role in human life. In …Read more
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655Review of Paul K. Moser, The Evidence for God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (1). 2011.
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Review of J.L. Schellenberg's Human Reason and the Hiddenness of God (review)Canadian Philosophical Reviews (I): 63-65. 1995.
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