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409Thomas Nagel: Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False (review)Review of Metaphysics 66 (3): 588-590. 2013.A review of Thomas Nagel's book Mind and Cosmos.
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148Objectivity and Subjectivity in Epistemology: A Defense of the Phenomenal Conception of EvidenceDissertation, Baylor University. 2014.We all have an intuitive grasp of the concept of evidence. Evidence makes beliefs reasonable, justifies jury verdicts, and helps resolve our disagreements. Yet getting clear about what evidence is is surprisingly difficult. Among other possibilities, evidence might consist in physical objects like a candlestick found at the crime scene, propositions like ‘a candlestick was found at the crime scene,’ or experiences like the experience of witnessing a candlestick at the crime scene. This dissertat…Read more
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3711St. Thomas Aquinas on Intelligent DesignProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85 79-97. 2011.Recently, the Intelligent Design (ID) movement has challenged the claim of many in the scientific establishment that nature gives no empirical signs of having been deliberately designed. In particular, ID arguments in biology dispute the notion that neo-Darwinian evolution is the only viable scientific explanation of the origin of biological novelty, arguing that there are telltale signs of the activity of intelligence which can be recognized and studied empirically. In recent years, a number of…Read more
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1317Against Contextualism: Belief, Evidence, & the Bank CasesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology 17 (1): 57-70. 2013.Contextualism (the view that ‘knowledge’ and its variants are context-sensitive) has been supported in large part through appeal to intuitions about Keith DeRose’s Bank Cases. Recently, however, the contextualist construal of these cases has come under fire from Kent Bach and Jennifer Nagel who question whether the Bank Case subject’s confidence can remain constant in both low- and high-stakes cases. Having explained the Bank Cases and this challenge to them, I argue that DeRose has given a reas…Read more
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799Alvin Plantinga: Where the conflict really lies: science, religion, and naturalism: Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2011, 359 pp. $27.95 (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 72 (1): 53-57. 2012.
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233Jerry Root: C.S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil (review)Theological Book Review 23 (2): 80-81. 2011.A review of Jerry Root's book C.S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil.
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259Darwin Knows Best: Can Evolution Support the Classical Liberal Vision of the Family?In Stephen Dilley (ed.), Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism: Theories in Tension, Lexington Books. pp. 135-156. 2013.In a time when conservatives believe that the traditional family is under increasing fire, some think an appeal to Darwinian science may be the answer. I argue that these conservatives are wrong to maintain that Darwinian theory can serve as the intellectual foundation for the traditional conception of the family. Contra Larry Arnhart and James Q. Wilson, a Darwinian philosophy of nature simply lacks the stability the traditional family requires; it cannot support the traditional conception of h…Read more
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560Can a Thomist Be a Darwinist?In Jay W. Richards (ed.), God and Evolution, . pp. 187-202. 2010.A discussion of several tensions between Thomistic philosophy and modern Darwinian theory as well as several recent Thomistic criticisms of intelligent design.
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