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    Review of Michael Martin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (review)
    Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (6). 2007.
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    Why am I a Nonbeliever? I Wonder...
    In Russell Blackford & Udo Schüklenk (eds.), 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
  • The Evolutionary Answer to the Problem of Faith and Reason
    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 2 (1). 2010.
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    A New Logical Problem of Evil
    In Justin P. McBrayer & Daniel Howard-Snyder (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to The Problem of Evil, Wiley. 2014.
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    The Argument from Divine Hiddenness: Response
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 26 455-462. 1996.
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    Why am I a Nonbeliever? I Wonder...
    In Russell Blackford & Udo Schüklenk (eds.), 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
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    Philosophy of religion: a state of the subject report
    Toronto Journal of Theology 25 (1): 95-110. 2009.
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    What the hiddenness of God reveals: A collaborative discussion
    In Daniel Howard-Snyder & Paul Moser (eds.), Divine Hiddenness: New Essays, Cambridge University Press. pp. 57. 2001.
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    Renewing Philosophy of Religion: Exploratory Essays (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2017.
    This book is animated by a shared conviction that philosophy of religion needs to change: thirteen new essays suggest why and how. The first part of the volume explores possible changes to the focus of the field. The second part focuses on the standpoint from which philosophers of religion should approach their field. In the first part are chapters on how an emphasis on faith distorts attempts to engage non-western religious ideas; on how philosophers from different traditions might collaborate …Read more
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    In many places and times, and for many people, God's existence has been rather less than a clear fact. According to the hiddenness argument, this is actually a reason to suppose that it is not a fact at all. The hiddenness argument is a new argument for atheism that has come to prominence in philosophy over the past two decades. J. L. Schellenberg first developed the argument in 1993, and this book offers a short and vigorous statement of its central claims and ideas. Logically sharp but so clea…Read more
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    Evolutionary religion
    Oxford University Press. 2013.
    J.L. Schellenberg offers a path to a new kind of religious outlook. Reflection on our early stage in the evolutionary process leads to skepticism about religion, but also offers a new answer to the problem of faith and reason, and the possibility of a new, evolutionary form of religion.
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    Getting oriented -- An (a)theological dead end -- Naturalism's shortcut -- Unexplored territory: moral evolution -- Updating God -- A relationally responsive god -- A kinder god -- A nonviolent god -- Challenging the new theism -- Atheism's brave new world.
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    On the Nature and Existence of God (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 46 (2): 402-404. 1992.
    The aim of this book, reflected in its title, is to clarify the theist's conception of God while supporting skepticism with respect to its instantiation. The first half of this task is carried out through an investigation of atheological arguments. These are arguments that seek to deduce a contradiction from properties traditionally ascribed to God--omnipotence, absoluteness, immutability, timelessness, benevolence, and so on--with the help of only necessarily true additional premises. Arguments…Read more
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    Divine Hiddenness
    In Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Wiley-blackwell. 1997.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction and Background The Contemporary Scene: Versions of the Hiddenness Problem The Hiddenness Problem and the Problem of Evil The Contemporary Scene: Attempts to Solve the Hiddenness Problem Works cited.
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    Why Am I a Nonbeliever? – I Wonder …
    In Russell Blackford & Udo Schüklenk (eds.), 50 Voices of Disbelief, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009-09-10.
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    Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief: Disagreement and Evolution (review)
    International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 7 (1). 2017.
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    What if our species is epistemically immature?
    American Philosophical Quarterly 57 (3): 227-240. 2020.
    . New insights about a variety of epistemological topics including skepticism, peer disagreement, and the nature of knowledge emerge when we give the right sort of attention to our epistemic immaturity at the species level. This large-scale developmentalist concern illustrates a new way of doing epistemology, here called big epistemology.
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    The Wisdom to Doubt is a major contribution to the contemporary literature on the epistemology of religious belief.
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    Ultimism and the aims of human immaturity -- Faith without details, or how to practice skeptical religion -- Simple faith and the complexities of tradition -- The structure of faith justification -- How skeptical faith is true to reason -- Anselm's idea -- Leibniz's ambition -- Paley's wonder -- Pascal's wager -- Kant's postulate -- James's will -- Faith is positively justified : the many modes of religious vision.
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    Three Ways to Improve Religious Epistemology
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 81 1-18. 2017.
    Religious epistemology is widely regarded as being in a flourishing condition. It is true that some very sharp analytical work on religion has been produced by philosophers in the past few decades. But this work, for various cultural and historical reasons, has been kept within excessively narrow bounds, and the result is that the appearance of flourishing is to a considerable extent illusory. Here I discuss three important ways in which improvements to this situation might be made.
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    The Tribute of Faith: Theistic Commitment as Moral Gesture
    The Monist 105 (3): 408-419. 2022.
    In this paper I explore and defend the idea that those who struggle intellectually in theistic religious practice can be given a good reason to persist in it by treating their continuing practice as a way of paying tribute to people and projects and personal relationships and indeed to the whole moral dimension of human life, expressing how important and profoundly significant these things are to them. This ‘tribute of faith’ is a gesture that one makes with one’s life—a moral gesture. The key t…Read more
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    In this paper I distinguish two levels of intellectual importance, derived and underived, showing how the former can be species-based. Then I do four things: first, identify a neglected way, stemming from perceived human intellectual maturity, in which many of us are vulnerable to a sense of species-based importance; second, show—in part by appealing to facts about deep time—that we have no right to this sense and so evince a failure of intellectual humility if we acquiesce in it; third, defend …Read more