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6Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 8 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century.
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2Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion: Volume 2 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2009.Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century.
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4Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 6 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2015.Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century.
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2Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 4 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century.
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3Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 5 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2014.Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century.
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9Warrant and Contemporary Epistemology (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 1996.Motivated by Plantinga's work, fourteen prominent philosophers have written new essays investigating Plantingian warrant and its contribution to contemporary epistemology. The resulting collection, representing a broad array of views, not only gives readers a critical perspective on Plantinga's landmark work, but also provides in one volume a clear statement of the variety of approaches to the nature of warrant within contemporary epistemology and to the connections between epistemology and meta…Read more
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89Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion: Volume 1 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2008.Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is a new annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy ...
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4Perspectivalism and Reflective AssentIn David Christensen & Jennifer Lackey (eds.), The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays, Oxford University Press. pp. 223-242. 2013.
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1``Divine Hiddenness: What is the Problem?"In Daniel Howard-Snyder & Paul Moser (eds.), The Hiddenness of God, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 149-163. 2001.
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1``The Epistemic Paradoxes"In Edward Craig (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge. 1998.
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Every religion offers both hope and fear. They offer hope in virtue of the benefits promised to adherents, and fear in virtue of costs incurred by adversaries. In traditional Christianity, the costs incurred are expressed in terms of the doctrine of hell, according to which each person consigned to hell receives the same infinite punishment. This strong view of hell involves four distinct theses. First, it maintains that those in hell exist forever in that state (the Existence Thesis) and that a…Read more
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150A critique of van Fraassen’s voluntaristic epistemologySynthese 98 (2): 325-348. 1994.Van Fraassen's epistemology is forged from two commitments, one to a type of Bayesianism and the other to what he terms voluntarism. Van Fraassen holds that if one is going to follow a rule in belief-revision, it must be a Bayesian rule, but that one does not need to follow a rule in order to be rational. It is argued that van Fraassen's arguments for rejecting non-Bayesian rules is unsound, and that his voluntarism is subject to a fatal dilemma arising from the non-monotonic character of reason…Read more
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21Philosophical Perspectives, Volume 2, Epistemology, ed. James E. Tomberlin (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (3): 700-703. 1991.
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``Truth-Tracking and the Value of Knowledge"In Kelly Becker (ed.), New Essays on Sensitivity and Knowledge, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012.
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28In Defense of CoherentismJournal of Philosophical Research 22 299-306. 1997.Alvin Plantinga and John Pollock both think that coherentism is a mistaken theory of justification, and they do so for different reasons. In spite of these differences, there are remarkable connections between their criticisms. Part of my goal here is to show what these connections are. I will show that Plantinga’s construal of coherentism presupposes Pollock’s arguments against that view, and I will argue that coherentists need not breathe their last in response to the contentions of either. Co…Read more
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392Why Should Inquiring Minds Want to Know?The Monist 81 (3): 426-451. 1998.National Enquirer commercials tell us that some people want to know. I have no idea what such a desire has to do with reading tabloid journalism, but the avowal of wanting to know interests me. Maybe this desire is shared by all; at the very least, curiosity is universal. Curiosity may amount to a desire for knowledge, or perhaps it might be explained in other terms, such as a desire for understanding or for finding the truth. Perhaps none of these, even. Maybe the desire is only one of being ab…Read more
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135``Propositionalism and the Perspectival Character of Justification"American Philosophical Quarterly 40 (1): 3-18. 2003.The flight from foundationalism in the earlier part of this century left several options in its wake. Distress over the possibility of foundationalist replies to the regress problem, coupled with consternation over the thought of circular reasoning mysteriously becoming acceptable as the circle gets large led to the attraction of holistic theories of a coherentist variety. Yet, such coherentisms seemed to leave the belief system cut off from the world, and perhaps a better idea was to abandon th…Read more
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69Simple reliabilism and agent reliabilism (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66 (2). 2003.Though I find the project significant and unprecedented in this way, I am not convinced that it is entirely successful, and I will try to explain here the grounds of my concern. We can begin with Greco’s list of requirements for an adequate theory of knowledge, and the relationship he sees between simple reliabilism and his own theory, agent reliabilism.
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499The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of UnderstandingCambridge University Press. 2003.Epistemology has for a long time focused on the concept of knowledge and tried to answer questions such as whether knowledge is possible and how much of it there is. Often missing from this inquiry, however, is a discussion on the value of knowledge. In The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding Jonathan Kvanvig argues that epistemology properly conceived cannot ignore the question of the value of knowledge. He also questions one of the most fundamental assumptions in epistemology, …Read more
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12Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 6 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2015.Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it publishes exemplary papers in any area of philosophy of religion.
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204Contextualism, Contrastivism, Relevant Alternatives, and ClosurePhilosophical Studies 134 (2): 131-140. 2007.Contextualists claim two important virtues for their view. First, contextualism is a non-skeptical epistemology, given the plausible idea that not all contexts invoke the high standards for knowledge needed to generate the skeptical conclusion that we know little or nothing. Second, contextualism is able to preserve closure concerning knowledge – the idea that knowledge is extendable on the basis of competent deduction from known premises. As long as one keeps the context fixed, it is plausible …Read more
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38In defending his rejection of Maverick Molinism (Faith and Philosophy 20.1, (January 2003), pp. 91-100) from my criticisms (Faith and Philosophy 19 (2002), pp. 348-357), Tom Flint attributes three central claims to my argument, and disagrees with two of them. He also notes my request for a defense of the Law of Conditional Excluded Middle, which his argument employs. He portrays that discussion as taking “potshots” at his argument, in part because I denied that concerns about the Law are compell…Read more
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``Theism, Reliabilism, and the Cognitive Ideal"In Michael J. Beaty (ed.), Philosophy and the Christian Faith, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 71-91. 1990.
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78On Behalf of Maverick MolinismFaith and Philosophy 19 (3): 348-357. 2002.In clarifying and defending Molinism, Thomas Flint argues against a position he terms Maverick Molinism. This version of Molinism maintains that, though counterfactuals of freedom have their truth-value logically prior to God’s acts of will, God could have so acted that these counterfactuals would have had a different truth value from that which they actually have. Flint believes this position is flawed, and presents an argument for rejecting it. I argue that Flint’s argument against Maverick Mo…Read more
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3``Curiosity and a Response-Dependent Account of the Value of Understanding"In Timothy Henning & David Schweikard (eds.), Epistemic Virtues, . 2012.
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