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    Best Possible World Theodicy
    In Justin P. McBrayer & Daniel Howard‐Snyder (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil, Wiley. 2013.
    Well‐known arguments for atheism have been grounded on the alleged lack of morally justifying reasons to permit particular moral and natural evils and on the thesis that God would have to create the best possible world. After discussing obstacles to the suggestion that there is a best of all possible worlds, I examine the prospects for responding to these atheistic arguments by exploring the case for our own world's being the best of all possible worlds against the backdrop of the multiverse hyp…Read more
  •  8
    Non‐Naturalistic Metaphysics
    In Kelly James Clark (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism, Wiley. 2016.
    First, I pair and critically discuss a methodological naturalism (construed as a research program heavily inspired by epistemological naturalism) with the kind of work that is currently being practiced under the heading “contemporary analytic metaphysics.” Second, I pair and critically discuss an ontological naturalism with the kind of work that could be described under the heading “theistically informed metaphysics.” Each pairing provides a window on the sort of confrontation to be had between …Read more
  •  8
    A grotesque in the garden
    William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2020.
    A short philosophical narrative about an angel wrestling with the decision to rebel against God and leave his post in the Garden of Eden.
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    Iblis, Abraham, and Teleological Suspensions
    The Monist 104 (3): 281-299. 2021.
    In this essay, I shall scold a Jinn, recommend a position in Islamic theology to my Muslim neighbors, explore a famous dilemma recounted in Genesis, and participate in a debate occasioned by an interpretive puzzle in Kierkegaard studies. I investigate two opposed ways of understanding the phrase, ‘the teleological suspension of the ethical’, offer some critical remarks on the interpretation of that phrase in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, and defend a range of considerations that speak in fav…Read more
  • Beautiful Evils
    In Dean Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 2, Oxford University Press. 2006.
  • Fission, Freedom, and the Fall
    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 2 (1). 2010.
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    A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person
    Cornell University Press. 2001.
    Hud Hudson presents an innovative view of the metaphysics of human persons according to which human persons are material objects but not human organisms. In developing his account, he formulates and defends a unique collection of positions on parthood, persistence, vagueness, composition, identity, and various puzzles of material constitution. The author also applies his materialist metaphysics to issues in ethics and in the philosophy of religion. He examines the implications for ethics of his …Read more
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    Moving faster than light
    Analysis 62 (3): 203-205. 2002.
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    The liberal view of receptacles
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (4). 2002.
    This Article does not have an abstract
  • Contents
    In A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person, Cornell University Press. 2018.
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    Index
    In A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person, Cornell University Press. pp. 199-203. 2018.
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    Bibliography
    In A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person, Cornell University Press. pp. 193-198. 2018.
  • Introduction
    In A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person, Cornell University Press. pp. 1-10. 2018.
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    Frontmatter
    In A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person, Cornell University Press. 2018.
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    Safety
    Analysis 67 (4): 299-301. 2007.
  • A Materialist Metaphysic of the Human Person
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (3): 713-723. 2004.
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    On Constitution and All‐Fusions
    Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 81 (3): 237-245. 2000.
    Recently, Judith Jarvis Thomson has offered a definition of the constitution relation against the backdrop of a robust ontology of objects she calls all‐fusions. Despite finding her reasons to believe in all manner of all‐fusions intriguing, in this paper I note an unsatisfactory consequence of her position for constitution‐theorists. I argue that an unrestricted commitmentto all‐fusions should lead the constitution‐theorist to reject her definitionof the constitution relation, on the grounds th…Read more
  •  10
    Précis of The Metaphysics of Hyperspace
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2): 422-426. 2008.
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    How to part ways smoothly
    Analysis 67 (2): 156-157. 2007.
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    Simples
    The Monist 87 303-451. 2004.