profile picture

Mark S. McLeod-Harrison

George Fox University
 More details
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Religion
  •  24
    Socrates and St. Paul: Can Christian Apologetics be Public Philosophy?
    Essays in Philosophy 15 (1): 117-137. 2014.
    Can popular Christian apologetics be public philosophy? This paper argues that it can be partly because the criteria for what counts as public philosophy are so vague but also partly because popular Christian apologetics parallels much that counts as public philosophy both in terms of its historical roots in Socrates but also how public philosophy is practiced now. In particular, there are parallels on the role of amateurs vs. professionals, the sorts of topics, the quality of the discussions, a…Read more
  • Al’s in Wonderland But Alston’s Well that Ends Well: Traditional Christianity and Noetic Nonrealism about the World
    Ars Disputandi 7. 2007.
    Many traditional Christians hold that since God created the world, the world is noetically real, that is, not dependent, generally, on human noetic contributions for its ontological status. This essay argues that traditional Christianity only requires noetic realism about God. William Alston and Plantinga are taken as examples of two traditional Christian philosophers who hold to noetic realism and their arguments touching on the connection between the Christianity and realism are considered
    Philosophy of Religion
  •  11
    Much “To-Do” about Nothing
    Philosophia Christi 11 (1): 207-214. 2009.
    Steven Hales’s defense of his philosophical relativism in “What to Do about Incommensurable Doxastic Perspectives” challenges a number of my criticisms made in my “Hales’s Argument for Philosophical Relativism.” I respond to each of these challenges and make a number of further observations about Hales’s position.
    Philosophy of ReligionEpistemology of Religion
  •  62
    The Many Ways God Is: Ontological Pluralism and Traditional Christian Theism
    Forum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 14 (2): 259-276. 2009.
    Traditional Christianity holds that God is a singular way, not dependent on the conceptual machinations of humans. I argue that God can be plural ways, different in different human conceptual schemes, all the while holding to traditional Christianity. In short, I provide a framework for an ontological pluralism that extends not just to the world being various ways but to God being various ways.
    Ontological Pluralism