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574David 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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349Michael Ruse: Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science (review)Religious Studies Review 38 (1): 10. 2012.A brief review of Michael Ruse's 2010 book Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science (Cambridge University Press).
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440New Atheist Approaches to ReligionIn Graham Robert Oppy (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, Routledge. pp. 51-62. 2015.In this article, we examine in detail the New Atheists' most serious argument for the conclusion that God does not exist, namely, Richard Dawkins's Ultimate 747 Gambit. Dawkins relies upon a strong explanatory principle involving simplicity. We systematically inspect the various kinds of simplicity that Dawkins may invoke. Finding his crucial premises false on any common conception of simplicity, we conclude that Dawkins has not given good reason to think God does not exist.
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406Thomas 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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3685St. 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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1310Against 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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