•  19
    Causes and Coincidences
    Philosophical Review 103 (3): 546. 1994.
  •  3
    Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley: Knowledge of God
    with Alvin Plantinga
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 66 (2): 105-107. 2009.
  •  212
    The problem of evil
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
  •  13
    Particulars, actuality, and identity over time (edited book)
    Garland. 1999.
    First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
  •  3
    Closing statement and reponse to Plantinga's comments
    In Alvin Plantinga (ed.), Knowledge of God, Blackwell. 2008.
    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.
  •  12
    Review of Bas C. Van Fraassen: Laws and symmetry (review)
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (2): 280-283. 1995.
  •  27
    Solutions to the New Threats to Academic Freedom?
    Bioethics 28 (4): 163-165. 2014.
    In my commentary on Francesca Minerva's article ‘New Threats to Academic Freedom’, I agree with her contention that the existence of the Internet has given rise to new and very serious threats to academic freedom. I think that it is crucial that we confront those threats, and find ways to eliminate them, which I believe can be done. The threats in question involve both authors and editors. In the case of authors, I argue that the best solution is not anonymous publication, but publication using …Read more
  •  263
    Farewell to McTaggart’s Argument?
    Philosophia 38 (2): 243-255. 2010.
    Philosophers have responded to McTaggart’s famous argument for the unreality of time in a variety of ways. Some of those responses are not easy to evaluate, since they involve, for example, sometimes murky questions concerning whether a certain infinite regress is or is not vicious. In this paper I set out a response that has not, I think, been advanced by any other author, and which, if successful, is absolutely clear-cut. The basic idea is simply that a tensed approach to time can avoid McTagg…Read more
  • Causation and supervenience
    In Michael J. Loux & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), The Oxford handbook of metaphysics, Oxford University Press. pp. 386-434. 2003.
  •  154
    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
  •  19
    Do Religious Claims Make Sense?
    Philosophical Review 81 (4): 501. 1972.
  • Basic Tensed Sentences and Their Analysis
    In Aleksandar Jokić & Quentin Smith (eds.), Time, Tense, and Reference, Mit Press. pp. 409-448. 2003.
  •  33
    The Deconstruction of Time (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 45 (3): 645-646. 1992.
    A number of philosophers have maintained that traditional ways of thinking about time involve metaphysical presuppositions. Jacques Derrida, however, has gone further, and has argued that the very concept of time is itself essentially metaphysical, and thus that there is no possibility of a nonmetaphysical conception of time. It is this latter claim that David Wood wishes to challenge. Thus, while he agrees that traditional conceptions of time have involved metaphysical presuppositions, he conte…Read more
  • In the debate volume, ’Knowledge of God’, co-authored with Alvin Plantinga, I argued that there is an inductively sound version of the argument from evil, and recently, several popular books criticizing religious belief have appeared, often focusing on that issue of the existence of God. In the present essay I argue, however, that to help ordinary people think more critically about religious beliefs, it is better to focus on beliefs associated with specific religions, such as Christianity. I the…Read more
  •  54
    Armstrong's proof of the realist account of dispositional properties
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 50 (3). 1972.
    This Article does not have an abstract
  •  14
    Value and Reality: The Philosophical Case for Theism
    with A. C. Ewing
    Philosophical Review 85 (1): 115. 1976.
  •  2
    ``Freedom and Foreknowledge"
    Faith and Philosophy 17 (2): 212-224. 2000.
    In her book, The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge, Linda Zagzebski suggests that among the strongest ways of supporting the thesis that libertarian free will is incompatible with divine foreknowledge is what she refers to as the Accidental Necessity argument. Zagzebski contends, however, that at least three satisfactory responses to that argument are available.I argue that two of the proposed solutions are open to strong objections, and that the third, although it may very well handle the sp…Read more
  •  3
    Causation
    In Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew & Ross P. Cameron (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, Routledge. 2009.
    This volume presents a selection of the most influential recent discussions of the crucial metaphysical questions: what is it for one event to cause another? The subject of causation bears on many topics, such as time, explanation, mental states, the laws of nature, and the philosphy of science.
  •  37
    Review of Bas C. Van Fraassen: Laws and symmetry (review)
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (2): 280-283. 1995.
  •  128
    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.
  •  270
    Laws of Nature (review)
    Philosophical Review 106 (1): 119. 1997.
    In this book, John Carroll argues for the following two anti-reductionist theses