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58Knowledge in an Uncertain World, by Jeremy Fantl and Matthew McGrath (review)Mind 122 (488): 1078-1085. 2013.
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51In this paper I will offer a sketch of an account of knowledge which seeks to unify a number of disparate elements the inclusion of which I assume to be a desideratum of a theory of knowledge. The device I will utilize to achieve this unity-in-diversity is that of a functional property—a property multiply realizable in widely varying realization bases. The essential idea is that the property warrant is a functional property: that which epistemizes true belief, that which turns mere true belief i…Read more
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32Still Nowhere Else to StartIn Matthias Steup & John Turri (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Blackwell. pp. 25. 2013.
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31Review of Quentin Smith (ed.), Epistemology: New Essays (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (1). 2010.
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28Introduction: Special Issue on Religious EpistemologyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 92 (3): 405-407. 2018.
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26We Have Liftoff..Journal of Analytic Theology 1. 2013.A brief introduction to the first issue of the Journal of Analytic Theology
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25Skeptical Theism: New Essays (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2014.This collection of 22 newly-commissioned essays presents cutting-edge work on skeptical theistic responses to the problem of evil and the persistent objections that such responses invite.
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25Internalist Evidentialism and Epistemic Virtue: Re-reply to AxtellLogos and Episteme 3 (2): 281-289. 2012.In this brief re-reply to Axtell, I reply to key criticisms of my previous reply and flesh out a bit my notions of the relationship between internalist evidentialism and epistemic virtue and epistemic value.
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24Explanation and the Problem of EvilIn Justin P. McBrayer & Daniel Howard‐Snyder (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil, Wiley. 2013.Do the evils in the world make it unlikely that God exists? In the first half of this chapter, Paul Draper formulates a Humean argument from evil for an affirmative answer to this question. He compares the theistic hypothesis that an omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good God exists to a competing hypothesis called naturalism. He claims both that naturalism is simpler than theism, and that naturalism fits or “predicts” a variety of facts about good and evil much better than theism does. Afte…Read more
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22The problem of animal pain: a theodicy for all creatures great and smallPalgrave-Macmillan. 2014.The plan of this book -- The problem of animal pain -- The Bayesian argument from animal pain -- Is there really a problem? the challenge of neo-cartesianism -- There is a problem. the defeat of neo-cartesianism -- The saint-making theodicy I:Negative phase -- The saint-making theodicy II:Positive phase -- Animal saints -- Animal afterlife.
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13Re-Reducing Responsibility: Reply to AxtellLogos and Episteme 2 (4): 625-632. 2011.In this brief reply to Axtell, I review some general considerations pertaining to the disagreement and then reply point-by-point to Axtell's critique of thedilemma I pose for responsibilists in virtue epistemology. Thus I re-affirm my reductionist identity thesis that every case of epistemic irresponsibility is either a case of ordinary moral irresponsibility or ordinary practical irrationality.
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3Explanation and the problem of evilIn Justin P. Mcbrayer (ed.), A Companion to the Problem of Evil, Wiley. pp. 71-87. 2013.
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2In defense of propositionalism about evidenceIn Evidentialism and its Discontents, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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2Parrying Parity: A Reply to a Reidian Critique of IdealismIn K. Pearce & T. Goldschmidt (eds.), Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics, Oxford University Press. pp. 1-17. 2017.One Berkeleyan case for idealism, recently developed by Robert M. Adams, relies on a seeming disparity between our concepts of matter and mind. Thomas Reid’s critique of idealism directly challenges the alleged disparity. After highlighting the role of the disparity thesis in Adams’s updated Berkeleyan argument for idealism, this chapter offers an updated version of Reid’s challenge, and assesses its strength. What emerges from this historico-philosophical investigation is that a contemporary Re…Read more
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Seemings, Reasons, and Knowledge: A Defense of Phenomenal ConservatismIn McCain Kevin (ed.), Believing in Accordance with the Evidence: New Essays on Evidentialism, Springer Verlag. 2018.
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IntroductionIn Jerry L. Walls Trent Dougherty (ed.), Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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