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1338Against 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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815Alvin 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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249Jerry 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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275Darwin 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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577Can 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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350Kelly James Clark and Raymond J. VanArragon: Evidence and Religious Belief (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2): 372-375. 2012.
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587David O’Connor. God, Evil, and Design: An Introduction to the Philosophical Issues. Blackwell, 2008 (review)European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 6 (1): 209-215. 2014.
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