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Introduction to Modal Epistemology After RationalismIn Bob Fischer & Felipe Leon (eds.), Modal Epistemology After Rationalism, Springer. 2016.
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217Divine Hiddenness and De Jure Objections to Theism: You Can Have BothPhilosophy and Theology. forthcoming.
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766The Problem of Creation Ex Nihilo: A New Argument against Classical TheismIn Mirosław Szatkowski (ed.), Ontology of Divinity, De Gruyter. pp. 291-304. 2024.It’s constitutive of classical theism that there is a necessarily existent personal god who is also the creator of the universe, where the latter claim includes at least the following three theses: (i) God is wholly distinct from the natural world; (ii) God is the originating or sustaining cause of the natural world; and (iii) God created the natural world ex nihilo, i.e., without the use of pre-existing materials. Call this tripartite component of classical theism the classical view of creation…Read more
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507Review of James Sterba, Is a Good God Logically Possible?: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019 (review)Philosophia 48 (4): 1671-1678. 2020.
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221Is God the Best Explanation of Things?: A DialoguePalgrave Macmillan. 2019.This book provides an up to date, high-level exchange on God in a uniquely productive style. Readers witness a contemporary version of a classic debate, as two professional philosophers seek to learn from each other while making their cases for their distinct positions. In their dialogue, Joshua Rasmussen and Felipe Leon examine classical and cutting-edge arguments for and against a theistic explanation of general features of reality. The book also provides original lines of thought based on the…Read more
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339Armchair Knowledge and Modal Skepticism: A RapprochementDissertation, University of California, Riverside. 2009.The thought experiment is a seemingly indispensable tool in the armchair philosopher’s toolbox. One wonders, for example, how philosophers could come to think that justified true belief isn’t knowledge, that reference isn’t determined by an expression’s associated description, or that moral responsibility doesn’t require the ability to do otherwise, without the use of thought experiments. But even if thought experiments play an integral role in philosophical methodology, their legitimacy is at l…Read more
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1303Causation and Sufficient Reason (Atheism)In Graham Oppy & Joseph W. Koterski (eds.), Theism and Atheism: Opposing Viewpoints in Philosophy, Macmillan Reference. 2019.This chapter provides an overview and critical discussion of cosmological arguments for theism, with special focus on the Kalam argument and arguments from contingency.
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711A Priori (Atheism)In Graham Oppy & Joseph W. Koterski (eds.), Theism and Atheism: Opposing Viewpoints in Philosophy, Macmillan Reference. 2019.The primary aim of this chapter is to evaluate whether considerations about a priori domains and abstract objects favor atheism over theism.
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212Modal Epistemology After Rationalism (edited book)Springer. 2016.This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys the field and provides a brief overview of the work, which progresses from empirically-sensitive rationalist accounts to fully empiricist accounts of modal knowledge. Early chapters focus on challenges to rationalist theories, esse…Read more
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154Why Frankfurt-Examples Don’t Need to Succeed to SucceedPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 80 (3): 551-565. 2010.In this paper we argue that defenders of Frankfurt-style counterexamples to the Principle of Alternative Possibilities do not need to construct a metaphysically possible scenario in which an agent is morally responsible despite lacking the ability to do otherwise. Rather, there is a weaker (but equally legitimate) sense in which Frankfurt-style counterexamples can succeed. All that's needed is the claim that the ability to do otherwise is no part of what grounds moral responsibility, when the ag…Read more
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714From Modal Skepticism to Modal EmpiricismIn Bob Fischer & Felipe Leon (eds.), Modal Epistemology After Rationalism, Springer. 2016.This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys the field and provides a brief overview of the work, which progresses from empirically-sensitive rationalist accounts to fully empiricist accounts of modal knowledge. Early chapters focus on challenges to rationalist theories, esse…Read more
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3123Moreland on the Impossibility of Traversing the Infinite: A CritiquePhilo 14 (1): 32-42. 2011.A key premise of the kalam cosmological argument is that the universe began to exist. However, while a number of philosophers have offered powerful criticisms of William Lane Craig’s defense of the premise, J.P. Moreland has also offered a number of unique arguments in support of it, and to date, little attention has been paid to these in the literature. In this paper, I attempt to go some way toward redressing this matter. In particular, I shall argue that Moreland’s philosophical arguments aga…Read more
Felipe Leon
El Camino College
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El Camino CollegeAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Metaphilosophy |
Philosophy of Religion |