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Michael Tooley

University of Colorado, Boulder
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    Closing statement and reponse to Plantinga's comments
    In Alvin Plantinga & Michael Tooley (eds.), Knowledge of God, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Plantinga's Responses to My Two Arguments Is Belief in God Non‐Inferentially Justified? The Argument from Evil Versus Justifications for Believing in the Existence of God Concluding Comment: Naturalism, Supernaturalism, and Theism.
    Philosophy of ReligionReformed Epistemology
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    Alvin Plantinga and the argument from evil
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 58 (4). 1980.
    Among the central theses defended in this paper are the following. First, the logical incompatibility version of the argument from evil is not one of the crucial versions, and Plantinga, in fostering the illusion that it is, seriously misrepresents claims advanced by other philosophers. Secondly, Plantinga’s arguments against the thesis that the existence of any evil at all is logically incompatible with God’s existence. Thirdly, Plantinga’s attempt to demonstrate that the existence of a certain…Read more
    The Argument from Evil
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    The Nature of Causation: A Singularist Account
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (sup1): 271-322. 1990.
    Is a singularist conception of causation coherent? That is to say, is it possible for two events to be causally related, without that relationship being an instance of some causal law, either basic or derived, and either probabilistic or non-probabilistic? Since the time of Hume, the overwhelmingly dominant philosophical view has been that such a conception of causation is not coherent.
    Causal RealismSingular CausationCausation, Miscellaneous
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    Laws of Nature
    Philosophical Review 106 (1): 119. 1997.
    In this book, John Carroll argues for the following two anti-reductionist theses
    Causation and Laws of NatureLaws of Nature, MiscNomological Necessity
  • Causation and supervenience
    In Michael J. Loux & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), The Oxford handbook of metaphysics, Oxford University Press. pp. 386-434. 2003.
    Supervenient CausationSupervenience, General