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7Skeptical Theism, CORNEA, and Common Sense EpistemologyIn Justin P. McBrayer & Daniel Howard‐Snyder (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil, Wiley. 2013.The problem of evil is best understood as an instance of what I call “the problem of defeated expectations.” These problems arise for theism when the world we experience does not conform to what we would expect to find in a world created and sustained by a being who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. In this chapter, I explore skeptical theism, which is an approach to the evidential problem of evil that argues that, at least with respect to certain kinds of evils we find, we simply s…Read more
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14Selected papers in honor of William P. Alston (edited book)Philosophy Documentation Center. 2016.William P. Alston was the founding editor of the Philosophy Research Archives and a president of the American Philosophical Association. This special volume was prepared in honor and recognition of Alston's many contributions to philosophy as author, editor, teacher, and mentor. Publication of this volume was made possible by his colleagues and the philosophy department at Syracuse University.
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Constitution, persons, and the resurrection of the deadIn Luis R. G. Oliveira & Kevin Corcoran (eds.), Common Sense Metaphysics: Essays in Honor of Lynne Rudder Baker, Routledge. 2020.
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5Warrant: The Current DebateWarrant and Proper Function (review)Review of Metaphysics 48 (4): 925-925. 1995.Whereas the first book is designed to demonstrate the inadequacy of other accounts, the second volume is supposed to tell us the sober truth about warrant. In a nutshell, Plantinga's theory is that a belief has warrant to the extent that it is produced by a cognitive process that is truth-aimed, functioning properly, operating in an appropriate environment, and reliable. Furthermore, for any two warranted beliefs, the belief which is held most strongly is the most warranted. Plantinga is aware t…Read more
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93Critical Introduction to the Epistemology of MemoryBloomsbury. 2019.In this clear and up-to-date introduction, Thomas D. Senor lays the philosophical foundation needed to understand the justification of memory belief. This book explores traditional accounts of the justification of memory belief and examines the resources that prominent positions in contemporary epistemology have to offer theories of the memorial justification. Along the way, epistemic conservatism, evidentialism, foundationalism, phenomenal conservatism, reliabilism, and preservationism all feat…Read more
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37The Uniqueness Argument and Religious Rationality PluralismPhilosophia Christi 20 (1): 241-252. 2018.In this paper, I offer a defense of what I dub “religious rationality pluralism”—that is, that people of various religions can be rational in holding a variety of religious perspectives. I distinguish two arguments against this position: the Uniqueness argument and the Disagreement argument. The aims of this essay are to argue that the Uniqueness thesis is ambiguous between two readings, that while one version of the thesis is quite plausible, it cannot be successfully used to argue against rati…Read more
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34Stephen C. Layman: Philosophical approaches to atonement, incarnation, and the trinity: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, ix and 191 pp, $100.00International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 82 (3): 349-354. 2017.
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1422A Critical Review of Alvin Plantinga’s Warranted Christian Belief (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (3): 389-396. 2002.
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Ongoing Justification: An Essay on the Epistemology of MemoryDissertation, The University of Arizona. 1989.Many accounts of epistemic justification are initially plausible as accounts of justifiably coming to believe a proposition, but fail as accounts of continuing to believe a proposition. In this essay, I examine candidate theories of ongoing justification, arguing that those along both coherentist and foundationalist lines are inadequate. First, I argue that coherentism doesn't work by dividing such accounts into negative and positive theories. Negative coherentism fails because of its dependence…Read more
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130Subjects of ExperiencePhilosophical Review 112 (3): 416-419. 2003.Subjects of Experience is as ambitious as it is contrary to the spirit of most of contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of mind. The reader needs a scorecard to keep track of all the currently unfashionable positions that Lowe adopts in this courageous little book. While the work ranges broadly over many topics, Lowe’s account of the self is at its core, and will be the focus of this review. However, it should be noted that one of the virtues of Subjects of Experience is its broad per…Read more
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832Harman, negative coherentism, and the problem of ongoing justificationPhilosophia 24 (3-4): 271-294. 1995.
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366Trusting Lucy: Believing the IncredibleIn Gregory Bassham & Jerry L. Walls (eds.), The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy, Open Court. 2005.
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34Rationality and Religious Commitment by Robert Audi (Oxford University Press), $45/£ 25The Philosophers' Magazine 57 113-114. 2012.
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1055Incarnation, Timelessness, and Leibniz's Law ProblemsIn Gregory E. Ganssle & David M. Woodruff (eds.), God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature, Oxford University Press. 2002.
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183Justified Belief and Demon WorldsRes Philosophica 90 (2): 203-214. 2013.The New Demon World Objection claims that reliabilist accounts of justification are mistaken because there are justified empirical beliefs at demon worlds— worlds at which the subjects are systematically deceived by a Cartesian demon. In this paper, I defend strongly verific (but not necessarily reliabilist) accounts of justification by claiming that there are two ways to construct a theory of justification: by analyzing our ordinary concept of justification or by taking justification to be a th…Read more
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540On Privileging God's Moral GoodnessFaith and Philosophy 23 (4): 409-422. 2006.According to Eric Funkhouser, omnipotence and necessary moral perfection (what Funkhouser calls "impeccability") are not compatible. Funkhouser gives two arguments for this claim. In this paper, I argue that neither of Funkhouser's arguments is sound. The traditional theist can reasonably claim that, contra Funkhouser, (i) there is no possible being who possesses all of God's attributes sans impeccability, and (ii) the fact that there are things that God cannot do does not entail that God lacks …Read more
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548The real presence of an eternal GodIn Kevin Timpe & Eleonore Stump (eds.), Metaphysics and God: Essays in Honor of Eleonore Stump, Routledge. 2009.
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1Charles Taliaferro, Consciousness and the Mind of God (review)Philosophy in Review 15 428-430. 1995.
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793Two factor theories, meaning wholism and intentionalistic psychology: A reply to FodorPhilosophical Psychology 5 (2): 133-151. 1992.In the third chapter of his book Psychosemantics , Jerry A. Fodor argues that the truth of meaning holism (the thesis that the content of a psychological state is determined by the totality of that state's epistemic liaisons) would be fatal for intentionalistic psychology. This is because holism suggests that no two people are ever in the same intentional state, and so a psychological theory that generalizes over such states will be composed of generalizations which fail to generalize. Fodor the…Read more
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4674The prima/ultima facie justification distinction in epistemologyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (3): 551-566. 1996.
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681Review of Matthias Steup (ed.), Knowledge, Truth, and Duty: Essays on Epistemic Justification, Responsibility, and Virtue (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (3). 2002.
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1169In this paper I argue for a version of the Total Evidence view according to which the rational response to disagreement depends upon one's total evidence. I argue that perceptual evidence of a certain kind is significantly weightier than many other types of evidence, including testimonial. Furthermore, what is generally called "The Uniqueness Thesis" is actually a conflation of two distinct principles that I dub "Evidential Uniqueness" and "Rationality Uniqueness." The former principle is likely…Read more
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