• Trudy Govier, Social Trust and Human Communities (review)
    Philosophy in Review 19 255-257. 1999.
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    Philosophy in Review 19 255-257. 1999.
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    Philosophy in Review 14 227-228. 1994.
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    Even if an argument from religious experience can show that the subjects of religious experience are in contact with something which can justifiedly be named 'God', this does not settle the matter because, 'God' has a use other than its use as a proper name, in which use the term had descriptive content. To be of interest to Natural Theology, the argument from religious experience must show that the object of religious experience has the properties associated with the term 'God' in this descript…Read more
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    Meeting Others in the Space of Reasons: Fallibilism for Sellarsians
    Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 92 (1): 217-231. 2007.
    Certainty has proved to be a troublesome epistemological concept, which motivates many philosophers to be fallibilists. But fallibilism proves troublesome, too, as it is hard to state in a way that does not either imply skepticism, or deny that there are necessary truths. The Sellarsian idea of a space of reasons in which there are normative proprieties attached to epistemic positions allows for an understanding of fallibilism which allows that there is knowledge, there are necessary truths, and…Read more
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    Alan PF Sell, Philosophical Idealism and Christian Belief Reviewed by
    Philosophy in Review 16 (3): 210-211. 1996.
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    Philosophy in Review 19 (4): 255-257. 1999.
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    Trudy Govier, Dilemmas of Trust Reviewed by
    Philosophy in Review 20 (2): 110-112. 2000.
  • Trudy Govier, Dilemmas of Trust
    Philosophy in Review 20 (2): 110-111. 2000.
  • Contrary to the popular belief that feminism has gained a foothold in the many disciplines of the academy, the essays collected in Theorizing Backlash argue that feminism is still actively resisted in mainstream academia. Contributors to this volume consider the professional, philosophical, and personal backlashes against feminist thought, and reflect upon their ramifications. The conclusion is that the disdain and irrational resentment of feminism, even in higher education, amounts to a backlas…Read more
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    Jain philosophy
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    Perfect Being Theology
    In Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Wiley-blackwell. 1997.
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    Why I Know About As Much As You: A Reply to Hardwig
    Journal of Philosophy 90 (5): 260-270. 1993.
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    Review of Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy, by Oliver Leaman (review)
    Essays in Philosophy 3 (1): 73-74. 2002.
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    In Defense of Anselm
    Philo 8 (1): 55-58. 2005.
    David Truncellito provides an analysis of Anselm’s ontological argument according to which Anselm’s use of the term “God” equivocates between purported reference to a being and reference to the idea of that being. I argue that this interpretation does not capture Anselm’s intent, and offer another analysis of the argument that charges Anselm with a different equivocation.
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    In Defense of Anselm
    Philo 8 (1): 55-58. 2005.
    David Truncellito provides an analysis of Anselm’s ontological argument according to which Anselm’s use of the term “God” equivocates between purported reference to a being and reference to the idea of that being. I argue that this interpretation does not capture Anselm’s intent, and offer another analysis of the argument that charges Anselm with a different equivocation.
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    A Peace Plan for the Science Wars
    Logos and Episteme 2 (3): 413-422. 2011.
    In what has become known as the ‘Science Wars,’ two sides have emerged. Some philosophers of science have claimed that, because science is a social practice, it is hopelessly infected with political bias. Others have claimed that science is a special kind of practice, structurally immune to bias. They are both right, because they are referring to different things when they use the word ‘science.’ The second group is referring the method of theory selection, as practiced by scientists in the labo…Read more
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    Anatomy of an Anomaly
    with Suzanne Clark
    Disputatio (6): 3-18. 1999.
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    An empirical challenge to dissatisfaction theodicy
    Southwest Philosophy Review 21 (1): 197-203. 2005.
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    One of the hallmarks of the early modern rationalists was their confidence that a great deal of metaphysics could be done by purely a priori reasoning. They thought so at least partly because they inherited via Descartes Anselm's confidence that the existence of God could be established by purely a priori reasoning in an ontological argument. They also inherited a Thomistic and scholastic confidence that the concept of God as supremely perfect being, if subjected to serious and deep analysis, wo…Read more
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    Many feminist epistemologists have been inclined to embrace socialized epistemology. There are, however, many different theses that go by that name. Sandra Harding, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, and Elizabeth Potter hold various of these theses, but their reasons for holding those theses, while they do support less ambitious theses, do not support the theses they are offered to support.
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    An eliminativist theory of religion
    Sophia 48 (1): 35-42. 2009.
    A philosophical theory of religion ought to meet four criteria: it should be extensionally accurate, neutral, phenomenological, and non-circular. I argue that none of the popular theories of religion meet all these criteria, and that, in particular, the extensional accuracy criterion and the non-circularity criterion can’t be met without sacrificing extensional accuracy. I conclude that, therefore, religions do not form a kind, and so, there is no such thing as religion.
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    An empirical challenge to dissatisfaction theodicy
    Sophia 44 (2): 197-203. 2005.
    Some philosophers of religion claim that one reason God permits suffering is to make people dissatisfied with their lives so they will turn to him. That theodicy is inadequate because 1) that strategy of behavior modification constitutes punishment (in the psychologists’ sense), and 2) punishment is not the most effective strategy of behavior modification. Since God can be expected to use the most effective strategy available to him, such a theodicy is inadequate.
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    This book takes a theoretical enterprise in Christian philosophy of religion and applies it to Buddhism, thus defending Buddhism and presenting it favorably in comparison. Chapters explore how the claims of both Christianity and Theravada Buddhism rest on people's experiences, so the question as to which claimants to religious knowledge are right rests on the evidential value of those experiences. The book examines mysticism and ways to understand what goes on in religious experiences, helping u…Read more
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    Notas sobre Sophismata 8.4 de Buridán
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    Philosophy in Review 18 (4): 279-280. 1998.
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    Philosophy in Review 18 279-280. 1998.