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11Much “To-Do” about NothingPhilosophia 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.
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62The Many Ways God Is: Ontological Pluralism and Traditional Christian TheismForum 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.
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34Christian Feminism, Gender, and Human Essences: Toward a Solution of the Sameness and Difference DilemmaForum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 19 (2): 169-191. 2014.Christian feminist theory faces many stresses, some due directly to the apparent nature of Christianity and its seeming patriarchy. But feminism can also be thought inherent in Christianity. All people are made in God’s image. Christians should view women and men as equals, just as they should see peopleof all races as equals. The basic question discussed, within a biblical and philosophical framework, is if it possible for Christian feminist theory to hold thatthere is an essence to being a wom…Read more
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35Relaxed Naturalism and Caring About the TruthForum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 17 (1): 89-103. 2012.Can our caring about truth be rooted in “relaxed” naturalism? I argue that it cannot. In order to care about truth we need the universe to be capable of providing non-adventitious good, which relaxed naturalism cannot do. I use Michael Lynch’s work as a springboard to showing this claim.
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Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Religion |