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1642The Many Gods Objection to Pascal’s WagerPhilo 15 (2): 158-178. 2012.The Many Gods Objection (MGO) is widely viewed as a decisive criticism of Pascal’s Wager. By introducing a plurality of hypotheses with infinite expected utility into the decision matrix, the wagerer is left without adequate grounds to decide between them. However, some have attempted to rebut this objection by employing various criteria drawn from the theological tradition. Unfortunately, such defenses do little good for an argument that is supposed to be an apologetic aimed at atheists and …Read more
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1Kant on Faith: Religious Assent and the Limits to KnowledgeIn Matthew Altman (ed.), The Palgrave Kant Handbook, Palgrave. forthcoming.
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40Gambling Maxims and their UniversalizabilityInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 17 (1): 17-28. 2003.This paper explores the moral status of various gambling maxims, particularly as they relate to the bettor’s interest in profit and the mathematical expectation of the game being played. Certain difficulties with the prevailing interpretations of the Formula of Universalizability will also be discussed, particularly in relation to games for which the bettor can have a positive expectation.
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"Kant's Fourfold Critique of the Ontological Argument: Conceptual Containment, Predication, and the Portents of Free Logic"In Graham Oppy (ed.), The Ontological Argument (Cambridge Classic Philosophical Arguments Series), Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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30Preface to Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason by Georg Friedrich MeierIn Lawrence Pasternack & Pablo Muchnik (eds.), Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason by Georg Friedrich Meier, Bloomsbury Academic. 2016.The aim of Kant’s Sources in Translation is to retrieve the rich intellectual world that influenced Kant’s philosophical development. In its first stage, the series makes available the most important textbooks Kant used throughout his long teaching career. Many of these textbooks are in Latin or in German and remain inaccessible to Anglophone readers. Lacking this material, however, it is difficult to appreciate Kant’s originality and process of philosophical maturation, for readers are unable t…Read more
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57Intrinslc value and overridingness in kant’s groundworkSouthwest Philosophy Review 18 (1): 113-121. 2002.
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57Christopher Insole, Kant and the Creation of Freedom: A Theological Problem Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 Pp. xiv + 264 ISBN 9780199677603 £65.00 (review)Kantian Review 20 (1): 162-166. 2015.Book Reviews Lawrence Pasternack, Kantian Review, FirstView Article
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130Kant on the Debt of SinFaith and Philosophy 29 (1): 30-52. 2012.Kant follows Christian tradition by asserting that humanity is sinful by nature, that our sinful nature burdens us with an infinite debt to God, and that it is possible for us to undergo a moral transformation that iberates us from sin and from its debt. Most of the secondary literature has focused on either Kant’s account of sin or our liberation from it. Far less attention has been paid to the debt in particular. The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of this debt, why Kant regard…Read more
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33Preparation for Natural Theology (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2016.The aim of Kant’s Sources in Translation is to retrieve the rich intellectual world that influenced Kant’s philosophical development. In its first stage, the series makes available the most important textbooks Kant used throughout his long teaching career. Many of these textbooks are in Latin or in German and remain inaccessible to Anglophone readers. Lacking this material, however, it is difficult to appreciate Kant’s originality and process of philosophical maturation, for readers are unable t…Read more
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62Immanuel Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals in Focus (edited book)Routledge. 2002._The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals^ is one of the most important works of moral philosophy ever written, and Kant's most widely read work. It attempts to demonstrate that morality has its foundation in reason and that our wills are free from both natural necessity and the power of desire. It is here that Kant sets out his famous and controversial 'categorical imperative', which forms the basis of his moral theory. This book is an essential guide to the groundwork_ and the many importan…Read more
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57Review: DiCenso, Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: A Commentary (review)Kantian Review 18 (3): 479-483. 2013.
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73Kant’s “Appraisal” of Christianity: Biblical Interpretation and the Pure Rational System of ReligionJournal of the History of Philosophy 53 (3): 485-506. 2015.The First Preface to Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason contains various characterizations of the distinction between biblical and philosophical theology. Similar characterizations are also found in the Preface to The Conflict of the Faculties. In both, Kant warns the philosopher against trespassing into the purview of the biblical theologian. Yet, in the actual body of both texts, we find numerous occasions where Kant deviates from the rules he initially articulates. The purpo…Read more
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16Intrinslc value and overridingness in kant’s groundworkSouthwest Philosophy Review 18 (1): 113-121. 2002.
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80Can Self-Deception Explain Akrasia in Kant’s Theory of Moral Agency?Southwest Philosophy Review 15 (1): 87-97. 1999.
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45This book offers a complete and internally cohesive interpretation of Religion. In contrast to the interpretations that characterize Religion as a litany of “wobbles”, fumbling between traditional Christianity and Enlightenment values, or a text that reduces religion into morality, the interpretation here offered defends the rich philosophical theology contained in each of Religion’s four parts and shows how the doctrines of the “Pure Rational System of Religion” are eminently compatible with th…Read more
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