Brown University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2002
Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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    True and Immutable Natures in Descartes's Ontological Proof
    Dissertation, Brown University. 2002.
    In the fifth of his Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes offers a version of the ontological proof for the existence of God. As Caterus argues in the First Objections, however, it seems that if this argument were valid, then so also would be any number of absurd arguments, for insofar as Descartes infers that God exists from the fact that existence belongs to His essence, we should also be able to infer that other objects---the fictitious existing lion, say---exist on similar grounds. Desc…Read more
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    The coherence of omniscience: A defense (review)
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 41 (1): 25-34. 1997.
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    The structure of Descartes's ontological proof
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (2). 2007.
    This Article does not have an abstract
  •  57
    A reply to Cunning on the nature of true and immutable natures
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (1). 2007.
    This Article does not have an abstract
  •  139
    Do Descartes and st. Thomas agree on the ontological proof?
    Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 89 (4): 413-435. 2008.
    Abstract:  Contrary to received opinion, Descartes' view on the merits of the ontological proof may actually agree with that of Thomas Aquinas, whose rejection of the a priori existence proof has stocked the armories of anti-Anselmians ever since. In a rarely noted passage of the First Replies, Descartes claims not to differ in any respect from Thomas on the proof, a claim that gains sense in light of recent work on the Fifth Meditation. That work in turn reveals a well-founded, if surprising, u…Read more
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    Garrett on the theological objection to Hume's compatibilism
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (2). 2000.
    This Article does not have an abstract