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287Strawson on Laws and RegularitiesAnalysis 51 (4). 1991.In his recent book The Secret Connection (Clarendon 1989), Galen Strawsonadvances what he calls 'a simple and devastating objection' to the regularitytheory of causation. I will argue that his objection, far from beingdevastating, has no force at all; and further, that if it did have force, itwould tell equally against Strawson's own preferred alternative to theregularity theory.
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2Rationality and Theistic Belief: An Essay On Reformed EpistemologyPhilosophical Books 36 (1): 71-72. 2009.
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277Some Problems with Virtue TheoryPhilosophy 82 (2): 275-299. 2007.Abstract: I examine virtue theory, especially as expressed by Rosalind Hursthouse. In its canonical form, the theory claims that living a life of virtue constitutes flourishing, although it also has a possible fall-back claim that a life of virtue is a means to the end of flourishing. I argue that in both interpretations, virtue theory is mistaken. It cannot give any convincing account of how the concepts of wanting, flourishing, and the virtues are connected, nor can it deal adequately with th…Read more
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131Logic and Theism: Arguments For and Against Beliefs in God - By J.J. SobelPhilosophical Books 47 (4): 380-382. 2006.
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132Why Only Perfection Is Good EnoughPhilosophical Papers 29 (3): 155-158. 2000.Abstract I argue that the traditional problem of evil mislocates the problem which confronts the theist. The real problem arises not from the evil in the world, but from the non-perfection of the world. Given that a perfect God could create only a perfect world, and given that the world is not in fact perfect, I construct an argument for atheism. I show that the argument is not open to the objections which theists standardly bring against the traditional objection from evil
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111What’s Wrong with Murder? Some Thoughts on Human and Animal KillingInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 7 (1): 47-54. 1992.
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106VIII*—Pain and PerceptionProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 89 (1): 113-124. 1989.Nicholas Everitt; VIII*—Pain and Perception, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 89, Issue 1, 1 June 1989, Pages 113–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/ar.
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76Rationality and Theistic Belief: An Essay On Reformed EpistemologyPhilosophical Books 36 (1): 71-72. 1995.
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109The Non-Existence of GodRoutledge London. 2003.Is it possible to prove or disprove God's existence? Arguments for the existence of God have taken many different forms over the centuries: in The Non-Existence of God, Nicholas Everitt considers all of the arguments and examines the role that reason and knowledge play in the debate over God's existence. He draws on recent scientific disputes over neo-Darwinism, the implication of 'big bang' cosmology, and the temporal and spatial size of the universe; and discusses some of the most recent work …Read more
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379The divine attributesPhilosophy Compass 5 (1): 78-90. 2010.Focusing on God's essential attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, being eternal and omnipresent, being a creator and sustainer, and being a person, I examine how far recent discussion has been able to provide for each of these divine attributes a consistent interpretation. I also consider briefly whether the attributes are compatible with each other.
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2020The Argument from ImperfectionPhilo 9 (2): 113-130. 2006.The paper argues that given the defining features of the God of “perfect being” theology, God would not create any contingently existing things. To do so would introduce a kind of gratuitous metaphysical imperfection in an otherwise metaphysically perfect universe. Given that in fact there are contingent things, it follows that the God of perfect being theism does not exist.
