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2``Disagreement and Reflective Ascent"In Jennifer Lackey (ed.), New Essays on Disagreement, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012.
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1``Divine Conservation and the Persistence of the World"In Thomas V. Morris (ed.), Divine and human action: essays in the metaphysics of theism, Cornell University Press. pp. 13-49. 1988.
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1``Scientific Naturalism and the Value of Knowledge"In Thomas M. Crisp, Matthew Davidson & David Vander Laan (eds.), Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga, Springer. pp. 193-214. 2006.
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1``Infinitism, Holism, and the Regress Argument"In Peter Klein & John Turri (eds.), Infinitism, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012.
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1``Divine Hiddenness: What is the Problem?"In Daniel Howard-Snyder & Paul Moser (eds.), Divine Hiddenness: New Essays, Cambridge University Press. pp. 149-163. 2001.
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1``The Epistemic Paradoxes"In Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal, Routledge. 1998.
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``Hell"In Jerry L. Walls (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 413-427. 2008.
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The questions concerning the value of knowledge and truth range from complete skepticism about such value to more discriminating concerns about the precise nature of the value in question and the comparative judgment that one of the two is more valuable than the other
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Divine OmniscienceIn Adrian Hastings, Alistair Mason & Hugh Pyper (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 498-499. 2000.
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``Jonathan Edwards on Hell"In Paul Helm & Oliver Crisp (eds.), Jonathan Edwards: Philosophical Theologian, Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Publishing Co.. pp. 1-12. 2003.
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, An Epistemic Theory of CreationIn Destiny and Decision: Essays in Philosophical Theology, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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Unknowable Truths and the Doctrine of OmniscienceJournal of the American Academy of Religion 57 485-507. 1989.THE DOCTRINE OF omniscience has been understood in two ways. Roughly, it has been taken either as the claim that God knows all that is true (Geach, Kvanvig 1986) or as the claim that God knows all that can be known (Swinbume; Mavrodes). The first construal I shall call the traditional construal, and the second I shall call a limited construal. Though the traditional construal would seem to be the natural one to hold, considerations of the analogy between the best construals of the doctrine of om…Read more
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Theoretical Unity in EpistemologyIn Cherie Braden, Rodrigo Borges & Branden Fitelson (eds.), Themes From Klein, Springer Verlag. 2019.
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Five Questions about EpistemologyIn Duncan Pritchard & Vincent Hendricks (eds.), Epistemology: 5 Questions, Automatic Press/vip. 2008.
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``The Rational Significance of Reflective Ascent"In Trent Dougherty (ed.), Evidentialism and its Critics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2011.
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``Resurrection, Heaven, and Hell"In Charles Taliaferro & Paul Draper (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Routledge. pp. 630-639. 2009.
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Plantinga's proper function account of warrantIn J. J. Kvanvig (ed.), Warrant and Contemporary Epistemology, Rowman and Littlefield, Savage, Maryland. 1996.Plantinga thus offers an approach that begins by assessing the faculties or abilities of a cognitive system or agent. Once such an assessment is complete, the epistemologist is in a position to infer the epistemic status of the doxastic products of those faculties or abilities.
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Philosophical reflection concerning heaven and hell has focused on the place of such doctrines in the great monotheistic religions emanating from the religion of the ancient people of Israel--Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The philosophical issues that arise concerning these doctrines is not limited to such traditions, however. Consider, for example, the doctrine of hell. Any religion promises certain benefits to its adherents, and these benefits require some contrast that befalls, or might b…Read more
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``The Value of Knowledge and Truth"In D. M. Borchert (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Macmillan Reference Books. 2006.
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``Restriction Strategies for Knowability: Lessons in False Hope"In Joseph Salerno (ed.), New Essays on Knowability, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 205-222. 2009.
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``Virtue Epistemology"In Sven Bernecker & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Routledge Companion to Epistemology, Routledge. 2010.
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I came to epistemology through an interest in the concept of rationality, and especially through the attacks on the rationality of religious believers. My thoughts at the time focused on the disappointing quality of the arguments for and against religious belief, and I recall being astonished at the time that philosophers capable of such penetrating insight in other areas had nothing that seemed either penetrating or original. The defenders sounded too much like mere apologists for the faith, an…Read more
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