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2211Defending Divine FreedomIn L. Kvanvig Jonathan (ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Oxford University Press. pp. 168-95. 2013.
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932The Incarnation and the TrinityIn Michael J. Murray (ed.), Reason for the Hope Within, Eerdmans. 1999.
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1249The IncarnationIn Chad V. Meister & Paul Copan (eds.), The Routledge companion to philosophy of religion, Routledge. 2007.
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2142On 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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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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656Review of Paul K. Moser, The Evidence for God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (1). 2011.
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87God, Supernatural Kinds, and the Incarnation: THOMAS D. SENORReligious Studies 27 (3): 353-370. 1991.Thinking about God often leads to thinking about ‘God’. And it has never been completely clear how best to understand this little English word. Traditionally, ‘God’ has been taken to be either a description or a name. However, a third option has recently captured the attention of philosophical theologians. It is claimed that just as one should think of, say, ‘humanity’ as a kind term, so one should think of ‘God’, or perhaps ‘divinity’, as a kind term. But given the tight link between semantics …Read more
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2157What if there are no political obligations? A reply to A. J. SimmonsPhilosophy and Public Affairs 16 (3): 260-268. 1987.
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877Drawing on Many Traditions: An Ecumenical Kenotic ChristologyIn Anna Marmodoro & Jonathan Hill (eds.), The Metaphysics of the Incarnation, Oxford University Press Usa. 2011.
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91The Knowledge-As-Perception Account of KnowledgeJournal of Philosophical Research 41 (9999): 91-109. 2016.William Alston once argued that justification is not necessary for knowledge. He was convinced of this because he thought that, in cases of clear perception, one could come to know that P even if one’s justification for believing P was defeated. The idea is that the epistemic strength of clear perception is sufficient to provide knowledge even where justification is lacking; perceiving (and believing) that P is sufficient for knowing that P. In this paper, I explore a claim about knowledge that …Read more
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926Preserving preservationism: A reply to LackeyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (1). 2007.
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1253Internalistic foundationalism and the justification of memory beliefSynthese 94 (3). 1993.In this paper I argue that internalistic foundationalist theories of the justification of memory belief are inadequate. Taking a discussion of John Pollock as a starting point, I argue against any theory that requires a memory belief to be based on a phenomenal state in order to be justified. I then consider another version of internalistic foundationalism and claim that it, too, is open to important objections. Finally, I note that both varieties of foundationalism fail to account for the epist…Read more
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486E.J.Lowe: The Subjects of Experience (review)Philosophical Review 112 (3): 416-419. 2003.Subjects of Experience is as ambitious as it is contrary to the spirit of most of contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of mind. The reader needs a scorecard to keep track of all the currently unfashionable positions that Lowe adopts in this courageous little book. While the work ranges broadly over many topics, Lowe’s account of the self is at its core, and will be the focus of this review. However, it should be noted that one of the virtues of Subjects of Experience is its broad per…Read more
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10The Rationality of Belief and the Plurality of Faith (edited book)Cornell University Press. 1995.A veritable who's who in the field of contemporary philosophy of religion here considers various issues in the epistemology of religious beliefs. The writings of William P. Alston, the leading figure in the revival of the Anglo-American philosophy of religion, provide the focus of these essays, all but two previously unpublished. Philosophers of religion, meta-physicians, epistemologists, and theologians will find in this volume some of the most important work available in the theory of knowledg…Read more
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25Charles Taliaferro, Consciousness and the Mind of God Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 15 (6): 428-430. 1995.
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1Review of Warrant: The Current Debate and Warrant and Proper Function (review)Review of Metaphysics 925-26. 1995.
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671Should Cubs Fans Be Committed? What Bleacher Bums Have to Teach Us about the Nature of FaithIn Eric Bronson (ed.), Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box, Open Court. 2004.
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530MemoryIn Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa & Matthias Steup (eds.), A companion to epistemology, second edition, Blackwell. 2010.
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850Harman, negative coherentism, and the problem of ongoing justificationPhilosophia 24 (3-4): 271-294. 1995.
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