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22Online Illusions of UnderstandingSocial Epistemology. forthcoming.ABSTRACT Understanding is a demanding epistemic state. It involves not just knowledge that things are thus and so, but grasping the reasons why and seeing how things hang together. Understanding, then, typically requires inquiry. Many of our inquiries are conducted online nowadays, with the help of search engines, forums, and social media platforms. In this paper, I explore the idea that online inquiry easily leads to what I will call online illusions of understanding. Both the structure of onli…Read more
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21Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley, Knowledge of God. Malden, MA / Oxford 2008: Blackwell. x + 270 pages. ISBN 9780631193647 (review)Philosophia Reformata 75 (1): 88-90. 2010.
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20Shipwrecked or Holding Water? In Defense of Alvin Plantinga’s Warranted Christian BelieverPhilo 16 (1): 42-61. 2013.
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18Online and Offline Battles : Usage of Different Political Conflict FramesInternational Journal of Press/Politics 29 (1): 26-46. forthcoming.Conflict framing is key in political communication. Politicians use conflict framing in their online messages (e.g., criticizing other politicians) and journalists in their political coverage (e.g., reporting on political tensions). Conflicts can take a variety of forms and can provoke different reactions. However, the literature still lacks a systematic and theoretically-grounded conceptual framework that accounts for the multi-dimensionality of political conflict frames. Based on literature fr…Read more
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18'Barking up the wrong tree': rationaliteit in de religieuze beslisboomAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 104 (2): 112. 2012.
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17Value pluralism in research integrityResearch Integrity and Peer Review 4 (1). 2019.Both scientists and society at large have rightfully become increasingly concerned about research integrity in recent decades. In response, codes of conduct for research have been developed and elaborated. We show that these codes contain substantial pluralism. First, there is metaphysical pluralism in that codes include values, norms, and virtues. Second, there is axiological pluralism, because there are different categories of values, norms, and virtues: epistemic, moral, professional, social,…Read more
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14Introduction to Special IssuePhilosophia Reformata 79 (1): 3-7. 2014.Discussions about the relationship between science and religion have never been absent from the public arena, but they seem to have made something of a comeback in the past decade or two. It is hard to say what accounts for such large-scale developments in society. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that it has become increasingly clear that the secularization thesis, i.e., the claim that the modernization and rationalization of societies goes hand in hand with the gradual disappearanc…Read more
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13Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro, eds., The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of ReligionPhilosophia Reformata 88 (1): 77-81. 2023.
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12Laura Frances Callahan and Timothy O’Connor, eds., Religious Faith and Intellectual Virtue (review)Journal of Analytic Theology 4 409-415. 2016._ _.
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10Conflict framing is key in political communication. Politicians use conflict framing in their online messages (e.g., criticizing other politicians) and journalists in their political coverage (e.g., reporting on political tensions). Conflicts can take a variety of forms and can provoke different reactions. However, the literature still lacks a systematic and theoretically-grounded conceptual framework that accounts for the multi-dimensionality of political conflict frames. Based on literature fr…Read more
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9Old Assyrian Legal Practices: Law and Dispute in the Ancient Near East. By Thomas Klitgaard HertelJournal of the American Oriental Society 137 (2). 2021.Old Assyrian Legal Practices: Law and Dispute in the Ancient Near East. By Thomas Klitgaard Hertel. PIHANS, vol. 123. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2013. Pp. xlii + 479. €84.80.
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9The epistemology of groups. By JenniferLackey, New York: Oxford University Press. 2021. pp. x + 200. £61.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9780199656608 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 31 (3): 860-865. 2023.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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9Willem B. Drees, Religion and Science in Context: A Guide to the Debates. London & New York 2010: Routledge. viii + 168 pages. ISBN 9780415556170 (review)Philosophia Reformata 76 (1): 154-157. 2011.
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8Kunnen goed geïnformeerde burgers wel betrokken burgers zijn?Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 116 (1): 74-93. 2024.Can well-informed citizens be engaged citizens? The storming of the Capitol exposes a tension between different kinds of virtues in public life, at least if we can disregard – for the sake of argument – the morally and politically unacceptable excessive violence that accompanied it. If we think about the event as an example of a powerful protest based on deep convictions, it points to a tension between two kinds of civic virtues. A healthy political climate requires participation: engaged and mo…Read more
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6Jonathan L. Kvanvig , Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Volume I. Oxford 2008: Oxford University Press. viii + 272 pages. ISBN 9780199542666 (review)Philosophia Reformata 74 (2): 158-161. 2009.
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5The Future of Creation Order: Vol. 1, Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Perspectives on Order and Emergence (edited book)Imprint: Springer. 2017.This work provides an overview of attempts to assess the current condition of the concept of creation order within reformational philosophy compared to other perspectives. Focusing on the natural and life sciences, and theology, this first volume of two examines the arguments for and against the beauty, coherence and order shown in the natural world being related to the will or nature of a Creator. It examines the decay of a Deist universe, and the idea of the pre-givenness of norms, laws and st…Read more
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2Scientism: Prospects and Problems (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.Can only science deliver genuine knowledge about the world and ourselves? Is science our only guide to what exists? Scientism answers both questions with yes. Scientism is increasingly influential in popular scientific literature and intellectual life in general, but philosophers have hitherto largely ignored it. This collection is one of the first to develop and assess scientism as a serious philosophical position. It features twelve new essays by both proponents and critics of scientism. Befor…Read more
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Kinds of knowledge, limits of scienceIn Jeroen de Ridder, Rik Peels & Rene van Woudenberg (eds.), Scientism: Prospects and Problems, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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Willem Drees, religion and science in context: A guide to the debates (review)Philosophia Reformata 76 (1): 154. 2011.
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Is Fake News Old News?In Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree & Thomas Grundmann (eds.), The Epistemology of Fake News, Oxford University Press. 2021.
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Bradley Monton, seeking God in science: An atheist defends intelligent design (review)Philosophia Reformata 75 (1): 85. 2010.
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