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15Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1964.This substantial anthology is a comprehensive, authoritative collection of the classical and contemporary readings in the philosophy of religion, providing a survey and analysis of the key issues, figures and concepts. Comprises the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of the classical and contemporary readings in the philosophy of religion. Provides a survey and analysis of the key issues, figures and concepts. Examines religious identity, theism and divine attributes, explanations o…Read more
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15The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, 4 Volume Set (edited book)Wiley. 2021.An unprecedented multi-volume reference work on philosophy of religion, providing authoritative coverage of all significant concepts, figures, and movements Unmatched in scope and depth, the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion provides readers with a well-balanced understanding of philosophical thought about the nature of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other religious traditions around the globe. Spanning across four comprehensive volumes, this groundbre…Read more
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14Models of God and Global WarmingIn Jeanine Diller & Asa Kasher (eds.), Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities, Springer. pp. 979--989. 2013.
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13The Problem of Soul–Body Causal InteractionIn Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Brief History of the Soul, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Causation and Dualism Why Not Locate Souls in Space? Property/Event Dualism or Dual Aspect Theory.
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13The Soul in Locke, Butler, Reid, Hume, and KantIn Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Brief History of the Soul, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Locke Butler Reid Hume Kant.
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13IntroductionIn C. Taliaferro, V. S. Harrison & S. Goetz (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Theism, . pp. 1-7. 2013.
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12Constructive Comparative Philosophy of Religion: Translations of Christianity and Islam and a Case Study of Ibn Tufayl and Ralph CudworthJournal of Philosophical Theological Research 25 (3): 27-36. 2023.We point out how some Christian-Muslim comparative philosophies of religion may be enhanced with certain translations or interpretations of Christianity: a modalist view of the trinity and a high Christology. While perhaps of only limited significance, we argue in more detail that a comparison of two leading philosophers, one Islamic, the other Christian, can bring to light a shared philosophy of innate ideas or nativism, grounding moral and theological views of goodness and the divine.
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12The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology (edited book)Ashgate Publishing Company. 2015.In recent scholarship there is an emerging interest in the integration of philosophy and theology. Philosophers and theologians address the relationship between body and soul and its implications for theological anthropology. In so doing, philosopher-theologians interact with cognitive science, biological evolution, psychology, and sociology. Reflecting these exciting new developments, The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology is a resource for philosophers and theologians, stud…Read more
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12Review 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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11The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, 4 Volume Set (edited book)Wiley. 2021.An unprecedented multi-volume reference work on philosophy of religion, providing authoritative coverage of all significant concepts, figures, and movements Unmatched in scope and depth, The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion provides readers with a well-balanced understanding of philosophical thought about the nature of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other religious traditions around the globe. Spanning across four comprehensive volumes, this groundbreaking resource c…Read more
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10NaturalismEerdmans. 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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10How Sinful Is Sin? How Vicious Is Vice?TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 7 (2). 2022.We defend the guise of the good thesis in a tradition going back to Socrates and Plato, according to which persons act on the basis of what appears to them as good or the least bad or evil act available to them. This seems contrary to moral experience, but we defend the thesis against plausible counter-examples in life as well as fiction. We contend that the thesis makes wrong-doing and vice intelligible, but still wrong, dysfunctional and horrific.
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10Feel the Love! Reflections on Alexander Pruss’ Essay in Christian Sexual EthicsRoczniki Filozoficzne 63 (3): 31-41. 2015.Throughout his excellent book One Body, Alex Pruss relies upon the view that there is a requirement of universal love: each and every one of us is required to love each and every one of us. Although he often appeals to revealed truth in making arguments for his various theses, he supports the requirement of universal love primarily through a philosophical argument, an argument that I call the “argument from responsiveness to value.” The idea is that all persons bear a sort of nonrelational value…Read more
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9To My Other SelfIn William Irwin & Christopher Robichaud (eds.), Dungeons & Dragons and Philosophy, Wiley. 2014-09-19.This chapter talks about to my other self reflection and existentialism in dungeons dragons. The 3.5 Dungeon Master's Guide II sourcebook discusses player motivations such as these, recognizing that, for many, they are one of the main reasons to play DD. The actor plays a character that someone else has envisioned and written: a figment of someone else's imagination. The author's task looks at the other side of this coin: an author conceives of a world and characters, and then sees how those cha…Read more
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9Philosophers 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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9The Naturalness of Belief: New Essays on Theism’s Rationality (edited book)Lexington Books. 2018.This volume exposes naturalism’s unnaturalness and defends theism’s naturalness and greater explanatory power to account for wide-ranging phenomena in the world and human experience. A broadening of naturalism to accommodate these features means borrowing heavily from—and thus more closely resembling—a theistic worldview.
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9The Philosophically Peculiar Members of a Distributist CultureQuaestiones Disputatae 8 (1): 57-69. 2017.
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8“Like my Father before Me”: Loss and Redemption of Fatherhood in Star WarsIn Jason T. Eberl & Kevin S. Decker (eds.), The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy, Wiley. 2015-09-18.Fatherly love should be evident in caring for the health and good of one's children, seeking to safeguard them from harm and to encourage their integrity. However, in Star Wars, Darth Vader promises his son's survival only on the condition that Luke Skywalker will serve his own monstrous, tyrannical master. Utilizing a philosophy of love and goodness to show how the parent–child relationship may be lost or regained, this chapter examines the transition in Anakin's life from a natural love of oth…Read more
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8The history of evil (edited book)Routledge, Taylor & Francis GroupVolume I. The history of evil in antiquity : 2000 BCD-450 CE -- volume II. The history of evil in the medieval age : 450-1450 -- volume III. The history of evil in the early modern age : 1450-1700 -- volume IV. The history of evil in the 18th and 19th centuries : 1700-1900 -- volume V. The history of evil in the early twentieth century : 1900-1950 -- volume VI. The history of evil from the mid-twentieth century to today : 1950-2018.
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8Mind ProjectionIn Robert Arp, Steven Barbone & Michael Bruce (eds.), Bad Arguments, Wiley. 2018-05-09.This chapter focuses on one of the common fallacies in Western philosophy, 'mind projection'. This fallacy occurs when we reason that the world has features that we (wrongly) project on to it or, using Gertrude Stein's whimsical language, when we do not carefully and humbly observe the world around us. Physicist E.T. Jaynes claimed to identify this fallacy as part of his critique of quantum theory of probability in his work “Clearing up Mysteries – The Original Goal”. He claimed that probability…Read more
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7The Golden Cord: A Short Book on the Secular and the SacredUniversity of Notre Dame Press. 2012.The title of Charles Taliaferro’s book is derived from poems and stories in which a person in peril or on a quest must follow a cord or string in order to find the way to happiness, safety, or home. In one of the most famous of such tales, the ancient Greek hero Theseus follows the string given him by Ariadne to mark his way in and out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth. William Blake's poem “Jerusalem” uses the metaphor of a golden string, which, if followed, will lead one to heaven itself. Taliaferro…Read more
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7Contemporary Philosophical TheologyRoutledge. 2015.In _Contemporary Philosophical Theology_, Charles Taliaferro and Chad Meister focus on key topics in contemporary philosophical theology within Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, as well as Hinduism and Buddhism. The volume begins with a discussion of key methodological tools available to the philosophical theologian, such as faith and reason, science and religion, revelation and sacred scripture, and authority and tradition. The authors use these tools to explore subjects including language, ine…Read more
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7Thoughts on the Future of the SoulIn Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Brief History of the Soul, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Naturalism versus Theism The Physical World Cross‐Cultured Inquiry Value Inquiry.
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