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48Divine 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 Gailliot Jai (ed.), The Ethics and Future of Spying, Routledge. pp. 233-244. 2016.
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153Moral 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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72The anxious believer: Macaulay’s prescient theodicyInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 73 (3): 175-187. 2013.Recent feminists have critiqued G.W. Leibniz’s Theodicy for its effort to justify God’s role in undeserved human suffering over natural and moral evil. These critiques suggest that theodicies which focus on evil as suffering alone obfuscate how to thematize evil, and so they conclude that theodicies should be rejected and replaced with a secularized notion of evil that is inextricably tied to the experiences of the victim. This paper argues that the political philosophy found in the writings of …Read more
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16Early Modern Women and the Problem of Evil: Atrocity & TheodicyRoutledge. 2015._Early Modern Women and the Problem of Evil_ examines the concept of theodicy—the attempt to reconcile divine perfection with the existence of evil—through the lens of early modern female scholars. This timely volume knits together the perennial problem of defining evil with current scholarly interest in women’s roles in the evolution of religious philosophy. Accessible for those without a background in philosophy or theology, Jill Graper Hernandez’s text will be of interest to upper-level under…Read more
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"The Border Wall as a Failed Moral Project from a Second-Person Standpoint"Global Virtue Ethics Review 6 (2): 4-19. 2011.
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