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Christian Religious EpistemologyIn John Greco, Tyler Dalton McNabb & Jonathan Fuqua (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology, Cambridge University Press. 2023.
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8Active and passive euthanasia : A replyIn Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, Oxford University Press Usa. 2000.
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4Modern challenges to past philosophy: arguments and responsesBloomsbury Academic. 2014.Does philosophy have a timeless essence? Are the writings that have come down to us over the centuries from philosophers of genius mere souvenirs from a bygone era? Or are their thoughts still eminently worth examining with care? Modern Challenges to Past Philosophy argues pondering past philosophy with modern problems in mind is worth the effort, even though earlier works are uninformed by modern science and lack some of tools of modern analysis. The great texts defamiliarize our world and offe…Read more
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6The Darkness of God (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (1): 193-193. 1996.As the author explains, this work began as an attempt to answer the question: "Is there such a thing as mystical experience?" Deciding that the question, loaded with unexamined presuppositions, was perhaps not a good one to begin with, Turner redirected his investigation to the use of some key metaphors in the Christian neoplatonic tradition--light, darkness, inwardness, ascent, and union. The result is a carefully crafted and illuminating essay in medieval apophatic theology and apophatic anthr…Read more
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10Gathering Materials to PhilosophizeProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 72 131-138. 1998.
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12Aquinas’s Solution to the Problem of Universals in De Ente et EssentiaProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 68 159-172. 1994.
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4Assisted Suicide and Assisted TortureLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 2 (3): 77-95. 1999.
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9Evil, God, and the Agnostic InquirerLogos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 2 (1): 127-152. 1999.
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69The Problem of the Continuant: Aquinas and Suárez on Prime Matter and Substantial GenerationReview of Metaphysics 53 (4). 2000.
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47Gathering Materials to PhilosophizeProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 72 131-138. 1998.
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3Consciousness and the Intentional Awareness of InstantiablesIn Alexander Batthyany & Avshalom C. Elitzur (eds.), Mind and its place in the world: non-reductionist approaches to the ontology of consciousness, Ontos. pp. 77-100. 2006.
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3World-Maker, Mind-Maker, Revealer in advanceProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. forthcoming.
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8World-Maker, Mind-Maker, RevealerProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 89 57-83. 2015.Is religion “noxious rubbish to be buried as deeply, as thoroughly, and as quickly as possible”? Philip Kitcher tells us that’s the dominant idea among atheists. In this paper I take a step back from the minutiae of standard journal articles to dispute the broad atheistic claim, and in the process suggest there is in fact a great deal to be said for religious belief. I argue that: (1) It’s not highly implausible that there is a cause of the universe distinct from the universe—a World-Maker; (2) …Read more
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31Getting a grip on the philosophies of Thomas Aquinas: A defense of systematic reconstructionFaith and Philosophy 18 (1): 50-60. 2001.Because many of Aquinas’s most distinctive philosophical claims are embedded in theological works, in order to see what his philosophy comes to it is necessary to do a great deal of extracting and reconstructing. A major school of interpretation, however, cautions that such efforts are misguided, since Aquinas’ philosophy and theology are inextricably bound together. We respond that some versions of this inseparability thesis are too strong to be true and the remainder too weak to stand in the w…Read more
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