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8Skeptical Theism, CORNEA, and Common Sense EpistemologyIn Justin P. McBrayer & Daniel Howard-Snyder (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to The Problem of Evil, Wiley. 2014.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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103Critical 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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38The 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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960A 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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4748The prima/ultima facie justification distinction in epistemologyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (3): 551-566. 1996.
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706Review 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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1235In 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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20JL Schellenberg, Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 15 (1): 63-65. 1995.
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1010God, Supernatural Kinds, and the IncarnationReligious Studies 27 (3): 353-370. 1991.Traditionally, the term ’God’ has been understood either as a proper name or as a description. However, according to a new view, the term God’ in a sentence like "Jesus Christ is God" functions as a kind term, much as the term ’tiger’ functions in the sentence "Tigger is a tiger." In this paper I examine the claim that divinity can be construed as a ’supernatural’ kind, developing the outlines of an account of the semantics of God’ along these lines, and suggest that it might solve an important …Read more
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2211Defending Divine FreedomIn L. Kvanvig Jonathan (ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Oxford University Press. pp. 168-95. 2013.
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932The Incarnation and the TrinityIn Michael J. Murray (ed.), Reason for the Hope Within, Eerdmans. 1999.
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1249The IncarnationIn Chad V. Meister & Paul Copan (eds.), The Routledge companion to philosophy of religion, Routledge. 2007.
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2142On the Tenability of Brute Naturalism and the Implications of Brute TheismPhilosophia Christi 10 (2): 273-280. 2010.Timothy O’Connor’s book Theism and Ultimate Explanation offers a defense of a new version of the cosmological argument. In his discussion, O’Connor argues against the coherence of a brute fact “explanation” of the universe and for the claim that the God of theism cannot be logically contingent. In this paper, I take issue with both of these arguments. Regarding the former, I claim that contrary to what O’Connor asserts, we have no good reason to prefer an account according to which the universe …Read more
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20Common Core/Diversity Dilemma, Agatheism and the Epistemology of Religious BeliefEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8 (4): 213--226. 2016.The essay “The Common-Core/Diversity Dilemma: Revisions of Humean Thought, New Empirical Research, and the Limits of Rational Religious Belief‘ is a bold argument for the irrationality of “first-order‘ religious belief. However, unlike those associated with “New Atheism,‘ the paper’s authors Branden Thornhill-Miller and Peter Millican claim both that there are prospects for rational “second-order‘ religious belief and that religious belief and practice can play a positive role in human life. In …Read more
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19The Prima/Ultima Facie Justification Distinction in EpistemologyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (3): 551-566. 1996.
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656Review of Paul K. Moser, The Evidence for God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (1). 2011.
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Review of J.L. Schellenberg's Human Reason and the Hiddenness of God (review)Canadian Philosophical Reviews (I): 63-65. 1995.
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