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182Review of J.L. Schellenberg's Religion After Science (review)Religious Studies Review. forthcoming.Review of J.L. Schellenberg's Religion After Science: The Cultural Consequences of Religious Immaturity (Cambridge, 2019)
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865The Fourth Meditation and Cartesian CirclesPhilosophical Annals: Special Issue on Descartes' Epistemology 68 (2): 119-138. 2020.We offer a novel interpretation of the argumentative role that Meditation IV plays within the whole of the Meditations. This new interpretation clarifies several otherwise head-scratching claims that Descartes makes about Meditation IV, and it fully exonerates the Fourth Meditation from either raising or exacerbating Descartes’ circularity problems.
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838Against the new Cartesian CircleCanadian Journal of Philosophy 47 (1): 66-74. 2017.In two recent papers, Michael Della Rocca accuses Descartes of reasoning circularly in the Fourth Meditation. This alleged new circle is distinct from, and more vicious than, the traditional Cartesian Circle arising in the Third Meditation. We explain Della Rocca’s reasons for this accusation, showing that his argument is invalid.
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364Love, Justice, and Divine SimplicityIn Ingolf Dalferth (ed.), Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion: Love and Justice, Mohr Siebeck. 2019.This paper raises an underappreciated paradox for classical theism. Love seems to be an inherently biased and partial relation. Justice seems to require the opposite, detached impartiality (think of the attributes of the just judge). But if these are conceptual facts, then classical theism is guilty of ascribing inconsistent attributes to God: perfect love and perfect justice. I resolve this paradox in a manner that weighs in favor of the principle of divine simplicity.
Saint Louis University
PhD, 2019
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Epistemology |
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René Descartes |
History: Skepticism |
Kant: Epistemology |
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