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    Nature, Truth, and Value: Exploring the Thinking of Frederick Ferrz (edited book)
    with George Allan, Merle Allshouse, Harley Chapman, John B. Cobb, John Compton, Donald A. Crosby, Paul T. Durbin, Barbara Meister Ferré, Frederick Ferré, Frank B. Golley, Joseph Grange, John Granrose, David Ray Griffin, David Keller, Eugene Thomas Long, Elisabethe Segars McRae, Leslie A. Muray, William L. Power, James F. Salmon, Hans Julius Schneider, Dr Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Udo E. Simonis, and Clark Wolf
    Lexington Books. 2005.
    In this thorough compendium, nineteen accomplished scholars explore, in some manner the values they find inherent in the world, their nature, and revelence through the thought of Frederick FerrZ. These essays, informed by the insights of FerrZ and coming from manifold perspectives—ethics, philosophy, theology, and environmental studies, advance an ambitious challenge to current intellectual and scholarly fashions
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    Nature, Truth, and Value: Exploring the Thinking of Frederick Ferrz (edited book)
    with George Allan, Merle Allshouse, Harley Chapman, John B. Cobb, John Compton, Donald A. Crosby, Paul T. Durbin, Barbara Meister Ferré, Frederick Ferré, Frank B. Golley, Joseph Grange, John Granrose, David Ray Griffin, David Keller, Eugene Thomas Long, Elisabethe Segars McRae, Leslie A. Muray, William L. Power, James F. Salmon, Hans Julius Schneider, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Udo E. Simonis, and Clark Wolf
    Lexington Books. 2005.
    In this thorough compendium, nineteen accomplished scholars explore, in some manner the values they find inherent in the world, their nature, and revelence through the thought of Frederick Ferré. These essays, informed by the insights of Ferré and coming from manifold perspectives—ethics, philosophy, theology, and environmental studies, advance an ambitious challenge to current intellectual and scholarly fashions
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    In Defense of the Global Argument (review)
    Process Studies 16 (4): 309-312. 1987.
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    Logic Crystallized
    Teaching Philosophy 20 (2): 143-154. 1997.
    This paper presents, explains, and addresses the pedagogical utility of the “Wachter crystal,” a three-dimensional representation of basic principles of logic designed and created by Thomas Wachter in 1992. The author first discusses a way of understanding relations of logical inference which groups propositions possessing identical truth tables into the same class (that is, a way of conceptualizing rules for replacement). Next, the author presents and explains a 16 x 16 matrix, the most basic f…Read more
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    God’s World, God’s Body
    Process Studies 16 (1): 61-63. 1987.
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Lewis S. Ford, Louis P. Pojman, Edward L. Schoen, George I. Mavrodes, and Gene Fendt
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 34 (3): 181-194. 1993.
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Alan Drengson, Robert L. Perkins, Jerry L. Walls, and Rem B. Edwards
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 37 (2): 113-125. 1995.
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    Book reviews (review)
    with David Wisdo and Jonathan L. Kvanvig
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 36 (1): 57-63. 1994.
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    The first issue of the International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion appeared in the Spring, 1970. This collection of essays is presented in cele bration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the journal. Contributors to the volume are to be counted among today's leading philosophers of religion. They represent different approaches to the philosophical consideration of religion and their published work is helping shape discussions of the philos ophy of religion as we approach the beginning o…Read more
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    Something Unheard Of: The Unparalleled Legacy of Jules Lequyer
    Process Studies 51 (2): 143-168. 2022.
    This article examines the thought of the nineteenth-century French thinker Jules Lequyer, who influenced Charles Renouvier, William James, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Charles Hartshorne, who never ceased to promote Lequyer's importance, refers to the Frenchman in all but five of his twenty-one books. Lequyer is especially noteworthy because of his philosophical defense of human freedom against any sort of determinism.
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    The American Reception of Jules Lequyer: From James to Hartshorne
    American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 36 (3): 260-277. 2015.
    The influence of Jules Lequyer [or Lequier] in philosophy, especially American philosophy, is disproportionate to the widespread ignorance of his name and to the fragmentary state of his literary remains. On the subject of free will, Lequyer’s influence on William James was profound, although James did not acknowledge his debt to the Frenchman, nor has it been recognized by most James scholars. It is true that James considered Lequyer “a French philosopher of genius,”1 but inexplicably, he never…Read more
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    Richard Rice. The Future of Open Theism: From Antecedents to Opportunities (review)
    Process Studies 50 (2): 276-283. 2021.
  •  2
    Book reviews (review)
    with Louis P. Pojman, George I. Mavrodes, Edward L. Schoen, Gene Fendt, and Lewis S. Ford
    Peer Reviewed.
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    Practicing Safe Sects: Religious Reproduction in Scientific and Philosophical Perspective by F. LeRon Shults
    American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 41 (2): 199-203. 2020.
    Behind the playful title of this book there is a serious theory about the origin of religions, as well as an argument concerning their usefulness and the truth claims they make. Anyone familiar with Shults's work will recognize this book as a companion to his Theology after the Birth of God—and, to a lesser extent, Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism—repeating the basic argument but adding an avalanche of more recent research, engaging some different interlocutors,…Read more
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    God Almighty and God All-Loving
    Process Studies 45 (2): 176-198. 2016.
    Griffin’s book contributes to the literature of cumulative arguments for God’s existence, revealing the deficiencies of the “God Almighty” of traditional theism (i.e., Gawd) and the strengths of a Whiteheadian process theism (i.e., God). Since the concept of omnipotence is central, it is imperative to note that there are three ideas of divine power in traditional theism, not always carefully parsed by Griffin. Evolutionary theory requires rethinking theism, but, contrary to Griffin, many of the …Read more
  •  9
    David Ray Griffin, Reenchantment without Supernaturalism: A Process Philosophy of Religion (review)
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 52 (2): 119-121. 2002.
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    Eugene Thomas Long (ed.), God, Reason and Religions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (review)
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 42 (3): 187-189. 1997.
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    Book Review: J. Harley Chapman and Nancy K. Frankenberry (eds.),Interpreting Neville (review)
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 53 (2): 123-125. 2003.
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    Understanding the Attributes of God
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 63 (1): 212-213. 2001.
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    Eternal Objects, Middle Knowledge, and Hartshorne
    Process Studies 39 (1): 149-165. 2010.
    In this essay I argue that Malone-France’s anti-realistic interpretation of the Hartshorne-Peirce theory of possibles can be challenged in a number of ways. While his interpretation does suggest that there are in fact two distinct accounts of possibility in Hartshorne’s philosophy, one that is vulnerable to an antirealistic interpretation and one that is not, Hartshorne does have a consistent and defensible doctrine of possibles. I argue that Whitehead’s contrasting “nonprotean” theory of possib…Read more
  •  12
    Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Creativity (review)
    Process Studies 20 (3): 181-183. 1991.
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    The Philosophy of William James: Radical Empiricism and Radical Materialism by Donald A. Crosby
    American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 37 (2): 188-192. 2016.
    William James described his system as “too much like an arch built only on one side.” Donald Crosby’s project is to chart the dimensions of the arch, repair it in certain places, and continue its construction. He endorses a Jamesian empiricism according to which “pure experience” is the ultimate context within which we come to judgments about reality, but he resists James’s allusions to pure experience as the stuff from which the world is made. The metaphysical question is answered by “radical m…Read more
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    Hartshorne: Biography and Psychology of Sensation
    with George W. Shields
    . 2015.
    Charles Hartshorne: Biography and Psychology of Sensation Charles Hartshorne is widely regarded as having been an important figure in twentieth century metaphysics and philosophy of religion. His contributions are wide-ranging. He championed the aspirations of metaphysics when it was unfashionable, and the metaphysic he championed helped change some of the fashions of philosophy. He counted … Continue reading Hartshorne: Biography and Psychology of Sensation →.
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    Hartshorne Theistic and Anti-Theistic Arguments
    with George W. Shields
    . 2015.
    Charles Hartshorne: Theistic and Anti-Theistic Arguments Charles Hartshorne is well known in philosophical circles for his rehabilitation of Anselm’s ontological argument. Indeed, he may have written more on that subject than any other philosopher. He considered it to be the argument that, more than any other, reveals the logical status of theism. Nevertheless, he always … Continue reading Hartshorne Theistic and Anti-Theistic Arguments →.
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    Hartshorne, Charles : Dipolar Theism
    with George W. Shields
    . 2015.
    Charles Hartshorne: Dipolar Theism From the beginning to the end of his career Charles Hartshorne maintained that the idea that “God is love” was his guiding intuition in philosophy. This “intuition” presupposes both that there is a divine reality and that that reality answers to some positive description of being a loving God. This article … Continue reading Hartshorne, Charles : Dipolar Theism →.