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From Experience to Evidence: Sensory and TestimonialIn McCain Kevin (ed.), Believing in Accordance with the Evidence: New Essays on Evidentialism, Springer Verlag. 2018.
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16The God Relationship: The Ethics for Inquiry about the DivinePhilosophia Christi 19 (2): 478-483. 2017.
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Justification-SkepticismDissertation, The University of Rochester. 2003.Justification-skepticism is the view that all our beliefs based on perception, memory, and induction are epistemically unjustified. A typical argument for justification-skepticism argument runs as follows: ' Suppose that SE is your sensory evidence for target proposition p ; You have no good reason to believe that SE makes p probable; If you have no good reason to believe that SE makes p probable, then you are not epistemically justified in believing p ; Therefore, you are not epistemically just…Read more
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53Moderate reasons-responsiveness, moral responsibility, and manipulationIn and D. Shier M. O'Rourke J. K. Campbell (ed.), Freedom and Determinism, Mit Press. 2004.
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1Is it True that ‘Evolution Is a Theory, Not a Fact’?International Journal of Applied Philosophy 21 (1): 89-108. 2007.The teaching of evolutionary theory in U.S. public school science classes has been called into question via numerous school board mandated “evolution is a theory, not a fact” disclaimers that have appeared on science textbooks in recent years and which have been the subject of recent court cases. I evaluate the scientific reasonability of such disclaimers by engaging in conceptual analysis on the crucial terms in the key claim: “evolution is a theory, not a fact.” Assessing various interpretatio…Read more
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4Proper Function Justification and Epistemic RationalitySouthwest Philosophy Review 26 (1): 189-195. 2010.
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8Is it True that ‘Evolution Is a Theory, Not a Fact’?International Journal of Applied Philosophy 21 (1): 89-108. 2007.The teaching of evolutionary theory in U.S. public school science classes has been called into question via numerous school board mandated “evolution is a theory, not a fact” disclaimers that have appeared on science textbooks in recent years and which have been the subject of recent court cases. I evaluate the scientific reasonability of such disclaimers by engaging in conceptual analysis on the crucial terms in the key claim: “evolution is a theory, not a fact.” Assessing various interpretatio…Read more
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164A proper de jure objection to the epistemic rationality of religious belief: TODD R. LONGReligious Studies 46 (3): 375-394. 2010.I answer Alvin Plantinga's challenge to provide a ‘proper’ de jure objection to religious belief. What I call the ‘sophisticates’ evidential objection' concludes that sophisticated Christians lack epistemic justification for believing central Christian propositions. The SEO utilizes a theory of epistemic justification in the spirit of the evidentialism of Richard Feldman and Earl Conee. I defend philosophical interest in the SEO against objections from Reformed epistemology, by addressing Planti…Read more
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11Mentalist evidentialism vindicated (and a super-blooper epistemic design problem for proper function justification)Philosophical Studies 157 (2): 251-266. 2012.Michael Bergmann seeks to motivate his externalist, proper function theory of epistemic justification by providing three objections to the mentalism and mentalist evidentialism characteristic of nonexternalists such as Richard Feldman and Earl Conee. Bergmann argues that (i) mentalism is committed to the false thesis that justification depends on mental states; (ii) mentalism is committed to the false thesis that the epistemic fittingness of an epistemic input to a belief-forming process must be…Read more
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9The recent book Rush Rhees on Religion and Philosophy contains a stimulating collection of writin~s by Rush Rhees on a variety of topics in the philosophy of religion. Comprising accounts of personal, religious and moral struggles, these essays provide a refreshing change from the often dry, overly technical approach to philosophy writing. Despite spanning more than thirty years, Rhees' s essays disclose a fairly consistent philosophy.of religion with a clear emphasis. Since he was Wittgenstein'…Read more
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