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930Another Look at the Modal Collapse ArgumentEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 13 (1): 1-23. 2021.On one classical conception of God, God has no parts, not even metaphysical parts. God is not composed of form and matter, act and potency, and he is not composed of existence and essence. God is absolutely simple. This is the doctrine of Absolute Divine Simplicity. It is claimed that ADS implies a modal collapse, i.e. that God’s creation is absolutely necessary. I argue that a proper way of understanding the modal collapse argument naturally leads the proponent of ADS to reject a particular pre…Read more
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491Review of Idealism and Christian Theology (review)Journal of Analytic Theology 6 716-721. 2018.ㅤ
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100The ineffability of GodInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 89 (1): 25-41. 2020.I defend an account of God’s ineffability that depends on the distinction between fundamental and non-fundamental truths. I argue that although there are fundamentally true propositions about God, no creature can have them as the object of a propositional attitude, and no sentence can perfectly carve out their structures. Why? Because these propositions have non-enumerable structures. In principle, no creature can fully grasp God’s intrinsic nature, nor can they develop a language that fully des…Read more
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17"Physicalism, Bodily Resurrection, and the Constitution Account"In Joshua R. Farris & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology, Ashgate Publishing Company. pp. 103-112. 2015.This chapter is about bodily resurrection. More specifically, it is about whether bodily resurrection is feasible according to a physicalist account of human beings. I argue that bodily resurrection is less plausible given mainstream physicalism, but it is not less plausible given the constitution account. In the first section, I criticize different options mainstream physicalism can take to make sense of bodily resurrection. All these options seem less than plausible. I spend more space on the …Read more
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Shoemaker, Self-blindness, Moore-paradoxical Utterances, and the Broad Perceptual Model of Introspection.Southwest Philosophical Studies 33 44-49. 2011.
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