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    Naturalism
    with Stewart Goetz
    Eerdmans. 2008.
    Argues against naturalism, or the idea that natural physical processes explain everything, the mind and soul do not exist, and consciousness and causality may have no basis, and suggests that it does not account for human--or any--action.
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    Dualism and the Problem of Individuation
    Religious Studies 22 (2). 1986.
    H. D. Lewis once remarked he did not think ‘any case for immortality can get off the ground if we fail to make a case for dualism’. Lewis vigorously defended both mind body dualism, the theory that minds are nonphysical, spatially unextended things in causal interaction with physical, spatially extended things, as well as the conceivability of an after life. Lewis defended the intelligibility of supposing distinct, individual persons continue existing after bodily death, possibly even after all …Read more
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    Philosophical critique of natural theology
    In J. H. Brooke, F. Watts & R. R. Manning (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology, Oxford Up. pp. 385. 2013.
    This chapter discusses the two kinds of philosophical critiques of natural theology: external and internal critiques. External critiques take aim at the whole project, objecting to the metaphysics, epistemology, or theory of values that make natural theology possible at all. Internal critiques allow that natural theology can succeed but none of its arguments are cogent or meet high philosophical standards. Among external critiques, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason seeks to undermine all metaphysic…Read more
  •  9
    Consciousness: New Philosophical Perspectives (review)
    Religious Studies 40 (2): 243-247. 2004.
  •  17
    The Magnitude of Omnipotence
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 14 (2). 1983.
  • Book Review (review)
    Philosophia Christi 9 (2): 473-475. 2007.
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Frank J. Hoffman and Dale M. Schlitt
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 35 (1): 57-64. 1994.
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    Saving our souls: Hacking's archaeology and Churchland's neurology
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 40 (1). 1997.
  •  16
    Revelation Today (review)
    Philosophia Christi 13 (2): 427-435. 2011.
    There is much to appreciate in Samuel Fleischacker’s Divine Teaching and the Way of the World: A Defense of Revealed Religion. In the tradition of Tolstoy, Fleischacker argues that secular philosophy does not have the resources to provide for a meaningful life; a life of meaning is to be found principally through revealed religion. In the end, however, his concept of revelation seems very thin, ruling out even the intelligibility of experiencing God. We critically assess his atrophied concept of…Read more
  •  9
    Philosophers without God (review)
    Philosophia Christi 11 (1): 224-230. 2009.
    An overview and critical evaluation of personal testimonies and arguments by some contemporary atheist philosophers. Feldman’s case that epistemic parity (where equally intelligent persons adopt incompatible beliefs) should lead to agnosticism is examined and found to be self-refuting.
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    Divine and Human Agency from the Standpoint of Historicalism, Scientism, and Phenomenological Realism
    European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (3): 3--25. 2015.
    Phenomenological realism, in the tradition of Dietrich von Hildebrand, is advanced as a promising methodology for a theistic philosophy of divine and human agency. Phenomenological realism is defended in contrast to the practice of historicalism -- the view that a philosophy of mind and God should always be done as part of a thoroughgoing history of philosophy, e.g. the use of examples in analytic theology should be subordinated to engaging the work of Kant and other great philosophers. The crit…Read more
  •  1
    No Title available: Book reviews (review)
    Religious Studies 44 (4): 499-504. 2008.
  •  29
    The view from above and below
    Heythrop Journal 30 (4). 1989.
  • Consciousness and the Mind of God
    American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 17 (1): 107-112. 1996.
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    The incorporeality of God
    Modern Theology 3 (2): 179-188. 1987.
  • Book Review (review)
    Philosophia Christi 3 (1): 279-283. 2001.
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    A Defense of First and Second-Order Theism: The Limits of Empirical Inquiry and the Rationality of Religious Belief
    with Christophe Porot
    European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8 (3): 213-235. 2016.
    We argue that the use of the term “supernatural” is problematic in philosophy of religion in general, and in the contribution by Thornhill-Miller and Millican in particular. We address the disturbing parallel between Hume’s case against the rationality of belief in miracles and his dismissal of reports of racial equality. We do not argue that because Hume was a racist therefore his view against miracles is faulty, but we draw attention to how Hume sets up a framework that, for similar reasons, d…Read more
  •  12
    Review of Paul Janz, God, the Mind's Desire: Reference, Reason and Christian Thinking (review)
    Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (10). 2004.
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    Divine cognitive power
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 18 (3). 1985.
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    Possibilities in the philosophy of mind
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (1): 127-37. 1997.
    This paper seeks to overturn the claim that Cartesian arguments for dualism based on the conceivable separation of person and body lack warrant, since it is just as conceivable that persons are identical with their bodies as it is that persons and their bodies are distinct. If the thesis of the paper is cogent, then it is not as easy to imagine person-body identity as many anti-Cartesians suppose
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    Contemporary Philosophy of Religion
    Wiley-Blackwell. 1997.
    This volume provides a vivid and engaging introduction to contemporary philosophy of religion.