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4Lloyd Strickland: Leibniz on God and Religion: A Reader: Bloomsbury, London, UK, 2016, xiii and 350 pp., $112.00International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 80 (3): 321-323. 2016.
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6God of War as Philosophy: Prophecy, Fate, and FreedomIn David Kyle Johnson (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 1929-1945. 2022.Prophecies and fate are heavily thematized throughout the God of War video game series. In the original trilogy, prophecies are given to Kratos, Zeus, Kronos, and others by a range of beings with purported foreknowledge including the Fates and Oracles In the Norse duology, the Norns, Giants, and others also provide prophecies. In line with the common trope of Greek tragedies, Kratos, Zeus, and Kronos’ actions, in trying to avoid their fates, created the very conditions by which those fates came …Read more
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2Leibniz’s Contemporary Modal TheodicyQuaestiones Disputatae 7 (2): 97-119. 2017.In this essay, it is argued that Leibniz’s theodicy is even stronger than it might first appear, but only if we also take into account his super-essentialism, the view that every property of a substance is essential to it, and theory of compossibility, the notion that possible worlds are intrinsically possible just in case they are compossible—that is, they are internally consistent. After describing how we should understand these principles in Leibniz’s thought, I argue that although there are …Read more
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3Monads, Composition, and Force: Ariadnean Threads through Leibniz's Labyrinth by Richard T. W. ArthurReview of Metaphysics 72 (4): 783-784. 2019.
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3Jill Graper Hernandez: Early modern women and the problem of evil: atrocity and theodicy: Routledge, New York, USA, 2017, Xiii and 148 pp, $140 , $44.95International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 83 (2): 213-216. 2018.
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3The Ontological Interpretation of Leibniz’s Account of CompossibilitySouthwest Philosophy Review 39 (1): 59-67. 2023.
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12Lloyd Strickland: Proofs of God in Early Modern Europe: An Anthology: Baylor University Press, 2018, xxvi and 299 pp, $49.95International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 85 (3): 369-371. 2019.
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The triforce and the doctrine of the meanIn Luke Cuddy (ed.), The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy: I Link Therefore I Am, Open Court. 2008.
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11Leibniz’s Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles by Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraJournal of the History of Philosophy 53 (4): 787-788. 2015.
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2The Last of Us as Moral Philosophy: Teleological Particularism and Why Joel Is Not a VillainIn David Kyle Johnson (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 1741-1756. 2022.The protagonist of the wildly popular recent video game, The Last of Us, makes a difficult decision at the end of the game by refusing to sacrifice his surrogate daughter so that scientists could try to find a cure for a disease that has devastated humanity for decades. I will take seriously The Last of Us as a piece of moral philosophy and argue that Joel has been interpreted as a villain primarily because many understand morality in terms of a consequentialist or deontological framework. On th…Read more
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5BioShock Infinite and Transworld IndividualityIn Luke Cuddy (ed.), BioShock and Philosophy, Wiley. 2015-05-26.In the massive plot twist at the end of BioShock Infinite, the writers beautifully put forth a hypothesis that individuals might exist in more than one possible world. In philosophy, the idea that an individual can exist in more than one world is called transworld identity. An important rival to transworld identity theory is counterpart theory, the idea that individuals cannot exist in more than one possible world and are therefore “world bound.” Modal realism is the thesis according to which th…Read more
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6Leibniz: Modal MetaphysicsInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2023.Leibniz: Modal Metaphysics Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) served as the natural end of the rationalist tradition on the European continent, which included Descartes, Spinoza, and Malebranche. His philosophy was one of the major influences on Kant. Although Leibniz had many philosophical and intellectual interests, he was arguably most concerned with reconciling the freedom required for … Continue reading Leibniz: Modal Metaphysics →
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