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6Presence and omnipresenceIn Philip L. Quinn & Paul J. Weithman (eds.), Liberal Faith: Essays in Honor of Philip Quinn, University of Notre Dame Press. 2008.
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14Providence and the problem of evilIn Brian Davies & Eleonore Stump (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Aquinas, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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281Moral responsibility without alternative possibilitiesIn David Widerker & Michael McKenna (eds.), Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities: Essays on the Importance of Alternative Possibilities, Ashgate. pp. 139--158. 2003.
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462Non-Cartesian Substance Dualism and Materialism Without ReductionismFaith and Philosophy 12 (4): 505-531. 1995.The major Western monotheisms, and Christianity in particular, are often supposed to be committed to a substance dualism of a Cartesian sort. Aquinas, however, has an account of the soul which is non-Cartesian in character. He takes the soul to be something essentially immaterial or configurational but nonetheless realized in material components. In this paper, I argue that Aquinas’s account is coherent and philosophically interesting; in my view, it suggests not only that Cartesian dualism isn’…Read more
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173Orthodoxy and HeresyFaith and Philosophy 16 (2): 147-163. 1999.Alvin Plantinga’s “Advice to Christian Philosophers” had the effect of getting contemporary Christian philosophers to recognize themselves as a part of a community with a worldview different from that found in the rest of Academia, and to take seriously in their work their commitment to that distinct worldview. I argue that in the current climate of opinion, generated at least in part by Plantinga’s advice, it would be worthwhile for contemporary Christian philosophers to consider that we also b…Read more
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222Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility: The Flicker of FreedomThe Journal of Ethics 3 (4): 299-324. 1999.Some defenders of the principle of alternative possibilities (PAP) have responded to the challenge of Frankfurt-style counterexamples (FSCs) to PAP by arguing that there remains a “flicker of freedom” -- that is, an alternative possibility for action -- left to the agent in FSCs. I argue that the flicker of freedom strategy is unsuccessful. The strategy requires the supposition that doing an act-on-one's-own is itself an action of sorts. I argue that either this supposition is confused and leads…Read more
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1215Omnipresence, Indwelling, and the Second-PersonalEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 5 (4): 29--53. 2013.The claim that God is maximally present is characteristic of all three major monotheisms. In this paper, I explore this claim with regard to Christianity. First, God’s omnipresence is a matter of God’s relations to all space at all times at once, because omnipresence is an attribute of an eternal God. In addition, God is also present with and to a person. The assumption of a human nature ensures that God is never without the ability to be present with human persons in the way mind-reading enable…Read more
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225Libertarian freedom and the principle of alternative possibilitiesIn Jeff Jordan & Daniel Howard-Snyder (eds.), Faith, Freedom, and Rationality: Philosophy of Religion Today, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 73-88. 1996.
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10Modes of KnowingFaith and Philosophy 26 (5): 553-565. 2009.The rapid, perplexing increase in the incidence of autism has led to a correlative increase in research on it and on normally developing children as well. In this paper I consider some of this research, not only for what it shows us about human cognitive capacities but also for its suggestive implications regarding the ability of science to teach us about the world.
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285Knowledge, freedom and the problem of evilInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 14 (1). 1983.
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252Love, by All AccountsProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 80 (2). 2006.
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3Intellect, will, and the principle of alternative possibilitiesIn M. Beaty (ed.), Christian Theism and the Problems of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 254-285. 1990.
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2Justifying Faith, Free Will, and the AtonementIn Richard Velkley (ed.), Freedom and the Human Person, Catholic Univ of America Pr. 2007.
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3Introduction of the Aquinas MedalistProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85 15-17. 2011.
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17Introduction of the Aquinas MedalistProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85 15-17. 2011.
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447God's simplicityIn Brian Davies & Eleonore Stump (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Aquinas, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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11Francis and DominicProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 74 1-25. 2000.
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93Dust, Determinism, and FrankfurtFaith and Philosophy 16 (3): 413-422. 1999.In a preceding issue of Faith and Philosophy Stewart Goetz criticized a paper of mine in which I try to show that libertarians need not be committed to the principle of alternative possibilities (PAP) and that Frankfurt-style counterexamples to PAP are no threat to libertarianism. In my view, the main problem with Goetz’s arguments is that Goetz does not properly understand my position. In this paper, I respond to Goetz by summarizing my position in as plain a way as possible. Goetz’s charge aga…Read more
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1302Dante's Hell, Aquinas's Moral Theory, and the Love of GodCanadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (2): 181-198. 1986.‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here’ is, as we all recognize, the inscription over the gate of Dante's hell; but we perhaps forget what precedes that memorable line. Hell, the inscription says, was built by divine power, by the highest wisdom, and by primordial love. Those of us who remember Dante's vivid picture of Farinata in the perpetually burning tombs or Ulysses in the unending and yet unconsuming flames may be able to credit Dante's idea that Hell was constructed by divine power; and if …Read more
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112Dialectic and its place in the development of medieval logicCornell University Press. 1989.Introduction Since my work in medieval logic has concentrated on dialectic. I have tried to trace scholastic treatments of dialectic to discussions of it in ...
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Dialectic and Its Place in the Development of Medieval LogicPhilosophy and Rhetoric 25 (4): 392-395. 1989.
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152Control and causal determinismIn Sarah Buss & Lee Overton (eds.), Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes From Harry Frankfurt, Mit Press, Bradford Books. 2002.
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