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676Divine omniscience and experience: A Reply to AlterArs Disputandi 3. 2003.According to one antitheist argument, the necessarily omniscient, necessarily omnipotent, and necessarily omnibenevolent Anselmian God does not exist, because if God is necessarily omnipotent it is impossible for Him to comprehend fully certain concepts, such as fear, frustration and despair, that an omniscient being needs to possess. Torin Alter examines this argument and provides three elaborate objections to it. I argue that theists would not accept any of them because they con ict with tradi…Read more
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349The knowledge argument against dualismTheoria 68 (3): 205-223. 2002.Paul Churchland argues that Frank Jackson
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67A further reply to Beyer on omniscienceSophia 46 (1): 65-67. 2007.I provide a further response to Jason A. Beyer’s objections to the alleged inconsistency between God’s omniscience and His other attributes.
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Sars And Health Care Workers' DutyEubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 13 (6): 208-208. 2003.
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311The grounds of worshipReligious Studies 42 (3): 299-313. 2006.Although worship has a pivotal place in religious thought and practice, philosophers of religion have had remarkably little to say about it. In this paper we examine some of the many questions surrounding the notion of worship, focusing on the claim that human beings have obligations to worship God. We explore a number of attempts to ground our supposed duty to worship God, and argue that each is problematic. We conclude by examining the implications of this result, and suggest that it might be …Read more
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96Models of Anselmian TheismFaith and Philosophy 30 (1): 3-25. 2013.The so-called Anselmian thesis says that God is that than which no greater can be thought. This thesis has been widely accepted among traditional theists and it has for several hundred years been a central notion whenever philosophers debate the existence and nature of God. Proponents of the thesis are often silent, however, about exactly what it means to say that God is that than which no greater can be thought. The aim of this paper is to offer an answer to this question by providing rigorous,…Read more
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IntroductionIn Yujin Nagasawa & Erik J. Wielenberg (eds.), New waves in philosophy of religion, Palgrave-macmillan. 2008.
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521The ontological argument and the devilPhilosophical Quarterly 60 (238): 72-91. 2010.The 'parody objection' to the ontological argument for the existence of God advances parallel arguments apparently proving the existence of various absurd entities. I discuss recent versions of the parody objection concerning the existence of 'AntiGod' and the devil, as introduced by Peter Millican and Timothy Chambers. I argue that the parody objection always fails, because any parody is either (i) not structurally parallel to the ontological argument, or (ii) not dialectically parallel to the …Read more
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64Chappell on the consistency of criticisms of christianityRatio 18 (1). 2005.In ‘Anthropocentrism and the Problem of Evil’ Timothy Chappell argues that one cannot advance the following two criticisms of Christianity at the same time: (1) Christianity is an implausibly anthropocentric religion, and (2) Christianity has no convincing answer to the problem of natural evil. I demonstrate that Chappell’s argument is unsuccessful by providing three possible, and consistent, interpretations of (1) and (2).
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40The performance records of cardiac surgeons have been disclosed publicly in several states in the USA, for example New York and Pennsylvania, since the early 1990s. In response to the growing interest in the quality of healthcare, such records have also begun to be disclosed in the UK, starting in 2004. Various studies seem to show that disclosure has, indeed, contributed to the improvement of the quality of healthcare.1 However, at the same time, disclosure does have its critics.2 In this paper…Read more
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University of OklahomaDepartment of PhilosophyProfessor of Philosophy and Kingfisher College Chair of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics
Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Religion |
Philosophy of Mind |
Applied Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
The Meaning of Life |