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186OmnipresenceIn Thomas P. Flint & Michael C. Rea (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophical theology, Oxford University Press. 2008.According to the tradition of western theism, God is said to enjoy the attribute of being everywhere present. But what is it, exactly, for God to manifest ubiquitous presence? Well, presumably, it is for God to bear a certain relation – the ‘being present at’ relation – to every place. This article focuses on the ‘being present at’ relation which figures so prominently in the divine attribute of omnipresence, on both fundamental and derivative readings of that relation, and on a host of philosop…Read more
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104Immanent Causality and Diachronic Composition: A Reply to BalashovPhilosophical Papers 32 (1): 15-22. 2003.Philosophical Papers Vol.32(1) 2003: 15-22
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265Brute factsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 75 (1). 1997.This Article does not have an abstract
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24Universalism, Four Dimensionalism, and VaguenessPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (3): 547-560. 2000.Anyone who endorses Universalism and Four Dimensionalism owes us an argument for those controversial mereological theses. One may put forth David Lewis’s and Ted Sider’s arguments from vagueness. However, the success of those arguments depends on the rejection of the epistemic view of vagueness, and thus opens the door to a fatal confrontation with one particularly troubling version of The Problem of the Many. The alternative for friends of Universalism and Four Dimensionalism is to abandon thos…Read more
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64The Fall and HypertimeOxford University Press. 2014.Hud Hudson shows that apparently irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion often turn out to be misdescribed battles about negotiable philosophical assumptions. He defends an original Hypertime Hypothesis which reconciles the Christian doctrines of The Fall and Original Sin with reigning scientific orthodoxy
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65Review of Theodore Sider, Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (6). 2002.
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4Fission, Freedom, and the FallIn Jonathan L. Kvanvig (ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion: Volume 2, Oxford University Press Uk. 2009.
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88A true, necessary falsehoodAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 77 (1). 1999.This Article does not have an abstract
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20I. Familiar Characterizations of SculptureIn Christy Mag Uidhir (ed.), Art & Abstract Objects, Oxford University Press. pp. 223. 2013.
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59Van Inwagen on Time Travel and Changing the PastOxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 5 5 41. 2010.
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257A materialist metaphysics of the human personCornell University Press. 2001.Introduction In the first four chapters of this book, I develop and defend a monistic account of human persons according to which human persons are highly ...
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73Reply to Parsons, Reply to Heller, and Reply to Rea (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2): 452-470. 2008.
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35Feinberg on the Criterion of Moral PersonhoodJournal of Applied Philosophy 13 (3): 311-318. 1996.In a very influential paper, Abortion, Joel Feinberg offers a series of arguments against four popular proposals for the criterion of moral personhood and defends a fifth proposal. In this paper, I demonstrate that two widely‐accepted arguments employed by Feinberg against the modified species criterion and the strict potentiality criterion, respectively, are unsound. Moreover, I argue that there is a general feature of his inquiry into the criteria for moral personhood which undermines his effo…Read more
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126Temporal parts and moral personhoodPhilosophical Studies 93 (3): 299-316. 1999.Three Dimensionalists and Four Dimensionalists are engaged in a debate on the topics of persistence and mereology. In this paper, I explore implications of Four Dimensionalism for the formulation of the criterion of personhood and on the question of which individuals satisfy that criterion. In my discussion I argue that the Four Dimensionalist has reason to identify a human person with a proper part of a human organism, and that the Four Dimensionalist has reason to believe that if there is some…Read more
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34Science, Skepticism, Scripture, and Supertasks: Replies to Torrance, Deng, Madueme, Goldschmidt and LebensJournal of Analytic Theology 5 637-659. 2017.ㅤ
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37On constitution and all-fusionsPacific Philosophical Quarterly 81 (3). 2000.Recently, Judith Jarvis Thomson has offered a definition of the constitution relation against the backdrop of a robust ontology of objects she calls all‐fusions. Despite finding her reasons to believe in all manner of all‐fusions intriguing, in this paper I note an unsatisfactory consequence of her position for constitution‐theorists. I argue that an unrestricted commitmentto all‐fusions should lead the constitution‐theorist to reject her definitionof the constitution relation, on the grounds th…Read more
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Jürgen Habermas. "Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action" (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 9 (1): 74. 1995.
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