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"The 'Alien Exception': the Affordable Care Act and the Oblique Rights of Those on the Margins"In Fritz Allhoff Mark Hall (ed.), The Affordable Care Act Decision: Philosophical and Legal Implications, Routledge. pp. 298-312. 2014.
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1On Asymmetry In Kant's Doctrine Of Moral WorthFlorida Philosophical Review 6 (1): 43-52. 2006.That an act can have moral worth even if the end of the action is not realized seems asymmetrical with Kant’s dual notion that acts cannot have moral worth if the maxim for action is impermissible. Recent scholarship contends that fixing the asymmetry will allow impermissible acts done from a morally worthy motive to have moral worth. I argue against the asymmetry thesis and contend that Kant cannot consistently maintain a class of impermissible, morally worthy action and the view that right act…Read more
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95Divine Omniscience and Human EvilPhilosophy and Theology 17 (1-2): 107-120. 2005.The ‘middle knowledge’ doctrine salvages free will and divine omniscience by contending that God knows what agents will freely choose under any possible circumstances. I argue, however, that the Leibnizian problem of divine knowledge of human evil is best resolved by applying a Theodicy II distinction between determined, foreseen, and resolved action. This move eliminates deference to middle knowledge. Contingent action is indeed free, but not all action is contingent, and so not all action is f…Read more
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"'Due-Care' or a 'Duty-to-Care'? Codes of Ethics in Intelligence Gathering"In Jai Gailliot (ed.), The Ethics and Future of Spying, Routledge. pp. 233-244. 2016.
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152Moral Evil and Leibniz’s Form/Matter Defense of Divine OmnipotenceSophia 49 (1): 1-13. 2010.The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Leibniz’s form/matter defense of omnipotence is paradoxical, but not irretrievably so. Leibniz maintains that God necessarily must concur only in the possibility for evil’s existence in the world (the form of evil), but there are individual instances of moral evil that are not necessary (the matter of evil) with which God need not concur. For Leibniz, that there is moral evil in the world is contingent on God’s will (a dimension of divine omnipote…Read more
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1"Leibniz and the Best of All Possible Worlds"In James Dew Chad Meister (ed.), God and Evil, Intervarsity Press. pp. 94-108. 2013.
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Normative Ethics, Miscellaneous |
History of Western Philosophy |
Feminist Ethics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Existentialism |