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49Pleasure as a sign of moral virtue in the nicomachean ethicsJournal of Value Inquiry 34 (4): 439-449. 2000.
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45Fiona Ellis, God, Value, and Nature: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, 220 pp., $99International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 78 (1): 131-135. 2015.In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle claims that just about everyone agrees that the highest good is eudaimonia while disagreeing with one another about what eudaimonia is. A similar situation exists among many contemporary philosophers: they agree that naturalism is true while disagreeing with one another about what naturalism is. By their lights, the claim that a given entity exists is worth taking seriously only if the entity in question is compatible with naturalism ; otherwise, the entity i…Read more
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43Greene, Joshua. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap between Us and Them.New York: Penguin, 2013. Pp. 422. $29.95 (review)Ethics 124 (4): 910-916. 2014.
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38The Psychopath Challenge to Divine Command Theory: Reply to FlannaganSophia 1-8. forthcoming.Erik Wielenberg has presented an objection to divine command theory (DCT) alleging that DCT has the troubling implication that psychopaths have no moral obligations. Matthew Flannagan has replied to Wielenberg’s argument. Here, I defend the view that, despite Flannagan’s reply, the psychopath objection presents a serious problem for the versions of DCT defended by its most prominent contemporary advocates — Robert Adams, C. Stephen Evans, and William Lane Craig.
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38In 2018, William Lane Craig and Erik J. Wielenberg participated in a debate at North Carolina State University, addressing the question: "God and Morality: What is the best account of objective moral values and duties?" Craig argued that theism provides a sound foundation for objective morality whereas atheism does not. Wielenberg countered that morality can be objective even if there is no God. This book includes the full debate, as well as endnotes with extended discussions that were not inclu…Read more
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33Metz’s Case Against SupernaturalismEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8 (2): 27--34. 2016.
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33The Failure of Brown's New Supervenience ArgumentJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2): 1-7. 2010.No abstract.
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28Loyal Rue. Nature is Enough: Religious Naturalism and the Meaning of LifePhilosophy, Theology and the Sciences 1 (1): 134. 2014.
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28The Nature of Moral VirtueDissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst. 2000.The dissertation is centered around the Moral Virtuosity Project . The central task of the dissertation is to examine what other philosophers have had to say on this topic and ultimately to successfully complete this project. ;Chapter One is concerned exclusively with Aristotle's attempt to complete the Moral Virtuosity Project. I defend the view that Aristotle holds that each moral virtue is a disposition toward proper practical reasoning, action, and emotion within a certain sphere. I critical…Read more
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22New waves in philosophy of religion (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2008.List of Contributors vi Introduction vii 1 A New Definition of ”Omnipotence’ in Terms of Sets 1 Daniel J. Hill 2 Can God Choose a World at Random? 22 Klaas J. Kraay 3 Why is There Anything at All? 36 T. J. Mawson 4 Programs, Bugs, DNA and a Design Argument 55 Alexander R. Pruss 5 The ”Why Design?’ Question 68 Neil A. Manson 6 Divine Command Theory and the Semantics of Quantified Modal Logic 91 David Efird 7 Divine Desire Theory and Obligation 105 Christian B. Miller 8 The Puzzle of Prayers of Th…Read more
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13God and the reach of reason: C.S. Lewis, David Hume, and Bertrand RussellCambridge University Press. 2008.C. S. Lewis is one of the most beloved Christian apologists of the twentieth century; David Hume and Bertrand Russell are among Christianity’s most important critics. This book puts these three intellectual giants in conversation with one another on various important questions: the existence of God, suffering, morality, reason, joy, miracles, and faith. Alongside irreconcilable differences, surprising areas of agreement emerge. Curious readers will find penetrating insights in the reasoned dialo…Read more
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8Discussion note: The failure of brown's new supervenience argumentJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 5 3-3. 2011.
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7Egoism and eudaimonia-maximization in the Nicomachean ethicsOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 26 277-95. 2004.
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1Value and Virtue in a Godless UniverseInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 59 (3): 179-182. 2005.
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Egoism and Eudaimonia-Maximization in the Nicomachean EthicsIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxvi: Summer 2004, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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Evil and atheistic moral realismIn W. Paul Franks (ed.), Explaining Evil: Four Views, Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
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IntroductionIn Yujin Nagasawa & Erik J. Wielenberg (eds.), New waves in philosophy of religion, Palgrave-macmillan. 2008.
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