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    Frequency versus probability formats in statistical word problems
    with Simon J. Handley, Nick Perham, David E. Over, and Valerie A. Thompson
    Cognition 77 (3): 197-213. 2000.
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    Jon McGinnis , Avicenna . Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 31 (2): 116-119. 2011.
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    Cricket and Moral Commendation
    Sport and Society 10 (5): 802-817. 2007.
    As evidenced in recent literature in moral philosophy, commending actions on their propensity to develop enduring moral traits is not the province of the virtue theorist alone. For however we understand the moral goals of human beings and the nature of right action we recognize that a temperate, just or beneficent person is more likely to conform to the demands of morality than one lacking in these virtues. If this idea is used as a standard for assessing the worth of activities generally and e…Read more
  •  325
    Peter de Rivo, Boethius and the Problem of Future Contingents
    Carmina Philosophiae 10 39-55. 2001.
    Peter de Rivo (b. ca. 1420), argues for the existence of human freedom despite its alleged incompatibility with the truth of future contingent propositions. Rivo’s solution doesn’t follow the common medieval attempt to dissolve the alleged incompatibility, but claims that future contingent propositions aren’t determinately true. This approach troubled Rivo’s contemporaries, who thought it was incompatible with biblical infallibility, particularly the veracity of prophetic statements. Rivo tri…Read more
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    Boethius and the Causal Direction Strategy
    Ancient Philosophy 38 (1): 167-185. 2018.
    Contemporary work on Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy often overlooks a discussion in CP.V.3 of a Peripatetic strategy for dissolving theological fatalism. Boethius’ treatment of this strategy and the lesson it provides about divine foreknowledge requires a reorientation of our understanding of the Consolation text. The result is that it is not foreknowledge nor any other temporally-conditioned knowledge that motivates Boethian concern but divine knowledge simpliciter.
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    Boethius on Modality and Future Contingents
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78 (2): 247-271. 2004.
    In The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius addresses two main problems posed by the problem of future contingents that shed important light on his conception of necessity and possibility: (1) a logical problem that alleges that if propositions about the future are true now then they are necessarily true, and (2) a theological problem that centers on a supposed incompatibility between divine foreknowledge and a contingent future. In contrast to established readings of the Consolation, I argue that…Read more
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    Craig Bourne, A Future for Presentism Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 28 (1): 5-7. 2008.
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    The Boethian Solution to the Problem of Future Contingents and its Unorthodox Rivals
    Dissertation, The University of Nebraska - Lincoln. 2001.
    One concern bothering ancient and medieval philosophers is the logical worry discussed in Aristotle's De Interpretatione 9, that if future contingent propositions are true, then they are settled in a way that is incompatible with freedom. Another is if we grant God foreknowledge of future contingent events then God's foreknowledge will determine those events in a way precluding freedom. ;I begin by discussing the standard compatibilist solution to these problems as represented in Boethius's Cons…Read more