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3Wiley Coyote and the Craggy Rocks Below: The Perils of a Godless EthicPhilosophia Christi 20 (18): 339-346. 2018.William Lane Craig has defended the following two contentions: (1) If theism is true, we have a sound foundation for morality, and, (2) If theism is false, we do not have a sound foundation for morality. Erik Wielenberg rejects (2). Specifically, Wielenberg argues that naturalists have resources to make sense of objective moral values, moral duties, and moral knowledge. In response to Wielenberg, I defend Craig’s second contention by arguing that Wielenberg’s theory fails to robustly capture our…Read more
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26Confucianism and the Liturgy: An Analectical Argument for the High Church TraditionsTheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 4 (1). 2020.In Confucian thought, there exists a functional view of rituals in which the participation in ritualistic practices brings about human flourishing. Call this the Confucian Ritual Principle (CRP). Utilizing contemporary psychology, in this paper, we argue for CRP. After linking rituals to human flourishing, we argue that on the hypothesis that Christianity is true, we would expect God to establish highly ritualistic and dogmatic liturgies. Put slightly differently, we argue that we should expect …Read more
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188Mary and Fátima: A Modest C-Inductive Argument for CatholicismPerichoresis 18 (5): 55-65. 2020.C-Inductive arguments are arguments that increase the probability of a hypothesis. This can be contrasted with what is called a P-Inductive argument. A P-inductive argument is an argument that shows the overall probability of a hypothesis to be more probable than not. In this paper, we put forth a C-inductive argument for the truth of the Catholic hypothesis (CH). Roughly, we take CH to be the hypothesis that the core creedal beliefs found within the Catholic Tradition are true. Specifically, we…Read more
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955By Whose Authority: A Political Argument for God's ExistenceEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11 (2): 163-189. 2019.In The Problem of Political Authority, Michael Huemer argues that the contractarian and consequentialist groundings of political authority are unsuccessful, and, in fact, that there are no adequate contemporary accounts of political authority. As such, the modern state is illegitimate and we have reasons to affirm political anarchism. We disagree with Huemer’s conclusion. But we consider Huemer’s critiques of contractarianism and consequentialism to be compelling. Here we will juxtapose, alongsi…Read more
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51Religious EpistemologyCambridge University Press. 2018.If epistemology is roughly the study of knowledge, justification, warrant, and rationality, then religious epistemology is the study of how these epistemic concepts relate to religious belief and practice. This Element, while surveying various religious epistemologies, argues specifically for Plantingian religious epistemology. It makes the case for proper functionalism and Plantinga's AC models, while it also responds to debunking arguments informed by cognitive science of religion. It serves a…Read more
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38Is the Problem of Divine Hiddenness a Problem for the Reformed Epistemologist?Heythrop Journal 59 (5): 783-793. 2018.
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17Plantingian Religious Epistemology and World Religions: Prospects and ProblemsLexington Books. 2018.Baldwin and McNabb explore how non-Christian religious traditions can utilize Plantinga’s epistemology. This book pays particular attention to the question, if there are believers from differing religious traditions that can rightfully utilize his epistemology, does this somehow prevent a Plantingian’s creedal-specific belief from being warranted?
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34Super Mario Strikes Back: Another Molinist Reply to Welty’s Gunslingers ArgumentPerichoresis 16 (2): 45-53. 2018.Molinists generally see Calvinism as possessing certain liabilities from which Molinism is immune. For example, Molinists have traditionally rejected Calvinism, in part, because it allegedly makes God the author of sin. According to Molina, we ‘should not infer that He is in any way a cause of sin’. However, Greg Welty has recently argued by way of his Gunslingers Argument that, when it comes to God’s relationship to evil, Molinism is susceptible to the same liabilities as Calvinism. If his argu…Read more
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61Reformed Epistemology and the Pandora’s Box Objection: The Vaiśeṣika and Mormon TraditionsPhilosophia Christi 18 (2): 451-465. 2016.Furthering our project of applying Plantinga’s epistemology to different world religions, we do a comparative study of Mormonism and Vaiśeṣika Hinduism and analyze whether they can utilize Plantinga’s epistemology in order to claim that their beliefs about God if true are probably warranted. Specifically, we argue that they cannot, as ultimately they are unable to account for the preconditions needed to make for an intelligible cognitive design plan, due to either affirming an infinite regress w…Read more
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Divine Methodology: A Lawful Deflection of Kantian and Kantian-esque DefeatersOpen Theology 3 293-304. 2017.
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17Paul M. Gould, Beyond the Control of God? Six Views on the Problem of God and Abstract Objects , Bloomsbury, 2014European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8 (4): 234-238. 2016.
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125Warranted religion: answering objections to Alvin Plantinga's epistemologyReligious Studies 51 (4): 477-495. 2015.Alvin Plantinga over the decades has developed a particular theory of warrant that would allow certain beliefs to be warranted, even if one lacked propositional arguments or evidence for them. One such belief that Plantinga focuses on is belief in God. There have been, however, numerous objections both to Plantinga's theory of warrant and to the religious application that he makes of it. In this article I address an objection from both of these categories. I first tackle an objection that attemp…Read more
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102An epistemic defeater for Islamic belief?International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 76 (4): 352-367. 2015.We aim to further develop and evaluate the prospects of a uniquely Islamic extension of the Standard Aquinas/Calvin model. One obstacle is that certain Qur’an passages such as Surah 8:43–44 apparently suggest that Muslims have reason to think that Allah might be deceiving them. Consistent with perfect/maximally good being theology, Allah would allow such deceptions only if doing so leads to a greater good, so such passages do not necessarily give Muslims reason to doubt Allah’s goodness. Yet the…Read more
Tyler McNabb
St. Francis University
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St. Francis UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Religion |
Asian Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Thomas Aquinas |