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551Hilary Greaves and Theron Pummer (eds.), Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 18 (1): 99-102. 2021.
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1681Pascal's Mugger Strikes AgainUtilitas 33 (1): 118-124. 2021.In a well-known paper, Nick Bostrom presents a confrontation between a fictionalised Blaise Pascal and a mysterious mugger. The mugger persuades Pascal to hand over his wallet by exploiting Pascal's commitment to expected utility maximisation. He does so by offering Pascal an astronomically high reward such that, despite Pascal's low credence in the mugger's truthfulness, the expected utility of accepting the mugging is higher than rejecting it. In this article, I present another sort of high va…Read more
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637Second-personal theodicy: coming to know why God permits suffering by coming to know God himselfInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 88 (3): 287-305. 2020.The popularity of theodicy over the past several decades has given rise to a countermovement, “anti-theodicy”, which admonishes attempts at theodicy for various reasons. This paper examines one prominent anti-theodical objection: that it is hubristic, and attempts to form an approach to theodicy which evades this objection. To do so I draw from the work of Eleonore Stump, who provides a framework by which we can glean second-personal knowledge of God. From this knowledge, I argue that we can der…Read more
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