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Divine Methodology: A Lawful Deflection of Kantian and Kantian-esque DefeatersOpen Theology 3 293-304. 2017.
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3Copyright © 2014, Barry et al.CTP Synthetase is a universally conserved and essential metabolic enzyme. While many enzymes form small oligomers, CtpS forms large-scale filamentous structures of unknown function in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. By simultaneously monitoring CtpS polymerization and enzymatic activity, we show that polymerization inhibits activity, and CtpS's product, CTP, induces assembly. To understand how assembly inhibits activity, we used electron microscopy to define the structu…Read more
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The Stigmata, Rainbow Bodies, and Hume’s Argument Against MiraclesJournal of the Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand. forthcoming.The testimony that Jesus rose from the dead or that St. Francis miraculously received stigmata is supposed to vindicate Christianity over other religious traditions. Similarly, the rainbow bodies of important spiritual exemplars in Tibetan Buddhism can be taken to justify the Buddhist tradition over its counterparts. What should we believe when the evidence suggests that the competing miracle claims contained in two different religious contexts both happened? One of David Hume's arguments agains…Read more
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8Plantingian Religious Epistemology and World Religions: Prospects and ProblemsLexington Books. 2018.Baldwin and McNabb explore how non-Christian religious traditions can utilize Plantinga’s epistemology. This book pays particular attention to the question, if there are believers from differing religious traditions that can rightfully utilize his epistemology, does this somehow prevent a Plantingian’s creedal-specific belief from being warranted?
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15Reformed Epistemology and the Pandora’s Box Objection: The Vaiśeṣika and Mormon TraditionsPhilosophia Christi 18 (2): 451-465. 2016.Furthering our project of applying Plantinga’s epistemology to different world religions, we do a comparative study of Mormonism and Vaiśeṣika Hinduism and analyze whether they can utilize Plantinga’s epistemology in order to claim that their beliefs about God if true are probably warranted. Specifically, we argue that they cannot, as ultimately they are unable to account for the preconditions needed to make for an intelligible cognitive design plan, due to either affirming an infinite regress w…Read more
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25An epistemic defeater for Islamic belief?International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 76 (4): 352-367. 2015.We aim to further develop and evaluate the prospects of a uniquely Islamic extension of the Standard Aquinas/Calvin model. One obstacle is that certain Qur’an passages such as Surah 8:43–44 apparently suggest that Muslims have reason to think that Allah might be deceiving them. Consistent with perfect/maximally good being theology, Allah would allow such deceptions only if doing so leads to a greater good, so such passages do not necessarily give Muslims reason to doubt Allah’s goodness. Yet the…Read more
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20The epistemological limits of experience-based exclusive religious beliefReligious Studies 44 (4): 445-455. 2008.Alvin Plantinga and other philosophers have argued that exclusive religious belief can be rationally held in response to certain experiences – independently of inference to other beliefs, evidence, arguments, and the like – and thus can be 'properly basic'. We think that this is possible only until the believer acquires the defeater we develop in this paper, a defeater which arises from an awareness of certain salient features of religious pluralism. We argue that, as a consequence of this defea…Read more
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11Classical Theism and Buddhism: Connecting Metaphysical and Ethical SystemsBloomsbury Press. 2022.As an atheistic religious tradition, Buddhism conventionally stands in opposition to Christianity, and any bridge between them is considered to be riddled with contradictory beliefs on God the creator, salvific power and the afterlife. But what if a Buddhist could also be a Classical Theist? Showing how the various contradictions are not as fundamental as commonly thought, Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin challenge existing assumptions and argue that Classical Theism is, in fact, compatible …Read more
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124The Burqa Ban: Legal Precursors for Denmark, American Experiences and Experiments, and Philosophical and Critical ExaminationsInternational Studies Journal 15 (1): 157-206. 2018.As the title of the article suggests, “The Burqa Ban”: Legal Precursors for Denmark, American Experiences and Experiments, and Philosophical and Critical Examinations, the authors embark on a factually investigative as well as a reflective response. More precisely, they use The 2018 Danish “Burqa Ban”: Joining a European Trend and Sending a National Message (published as a concurrent but separate article in this issue of INTERNATIONAL STUDIES JOURNAL) as a platform for further analysis and discu…Read more
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6The Hiddenness Argument: Philosophy’s New Challenge to Belief in GodPhilosophia Christi 18 (1): 239-243. 2016.
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Could the Extended Aquinas/Calvin Model Defeat Basic Christian Belief?Philosophia Christi 2 (8): 383-399. 2006.
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15Putting Uninstantiated Human Person Essences to Work: A Comment on Davis and Craig on The Grounding ObjectionPhilosophia Christi 15 (2): 221-225. 2013.In “Ducking Friendly Fire: Davison on the Grounding Objection”, William Lane Craig responds to a statement of The Grounding Objection articulated by Scott Davison in “Craig on the Grounding Objection to Middle Knowledge”. According to Davison, unless we have an explanation of true counterfactuals that makes reference to actual human persons in specific situations we lack an adequate explanation of how counterfactuals of creaturely freedom could possibly be true. Drawing from and elaborating on E…Read more
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124Religious Dogma without Religious FundamentalismJournal of Social Science 8 (1): 85-90. 2012.New Atheists and Anti-Theists (such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hutchins) affirm that there is a strong connection between being a traditional theist and being a religious fundamentalist who advocates violence, terrorism, and war. They are especially critical of Islam. On the contrary, I argue that, when correctly understood, religious dogmatic belief, present in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is progressive and open to internal and external criticism and revis…Read more
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8Could the Extended Aquinas/Calvin Model Defeat Basic Christian Belief?Philosophia Christi 8 (2): 383-399. 2006.
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4Review of The Hiddenness Argument: Philosophy’s New Challenge to Belief in God, by John Schellenberg (review)Philosophia Christi 18 (1): 241-245. 2016.
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6Yinyang: The Way of Heaven and Earth in Chinese Thought and CultureROBIN R. WANG New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012; xii + 250 pp., $27.99 (review)Dialogue 54 (1): 196-197. 2015.
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6Fully Informed Reasonable Disagreement and Tradition Based PerspectivalismPeeters-Leuven. 2016.Apparently, people who are aware of the relevant facts and experiences in a belief forming situation, sometimes reasonably disagree about whether to believe and why. This study argues that such disagreements are possible, and that some purportedly fully informed reasonable disagreements are genuine, including cases involving disagreement about which beliefs about God are reasonably taken to be properly basic, given the facts of religious diversity and cases in which phenomenologically similar re…Read more
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1On the Prospects of an Islamic Externalist Account of WarrantIn Tymieniecka Anna-Teresa & Muhtaroglu Nazif (eds.), Classic Issues in Islamic Philosophy and Theology Today (Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue, vol. 4, Springer. 2010.Alvin Plantinga’s externalist religious epistemology, which incorporates a proper function account of warrant, forms the basis for his standard and extended Aquinas/Calvin models. Respectively, these models show how it could be that Theistic Belief and Christian Belief could be warranted for believers in a properly basic manner. Christianity and Islam share fundamental theses that underlie the plausibility of Plantinga’s models: the Dependency Thesis, the Design Thesis, and the Immediacy Thesis.…Read more
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1On Buddhist and Taoist MoralityForum Philosophicum: International Journal for Philosophy 16 (2): 99-110. 2011.Arthur Danto argues that all Eastern philosophies – except Confucianism – fail to accept necessary conditions on genuine morality: a robust notion of agency and that actions are praiseworthy only if performed voluntarily, in accordance with rules, and from motives based on the moral worth and well-being of others. But Danto’s arguments fail: Neo-Taoism and Mohism satisfy these allegedly necessary constraints and Taoism and Buddhism both posit moral reasons that fall outside the scope of Danto’s …Read more
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