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The argument from (natural) numbersIn Jerry L. Walls & Trent Dougherty (eds.), Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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89Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing? By Bede RundleHeythrop Journal 52 (2): 307-308. 2011.
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18What’s So Bad about Worshipping Other Gods?Journal of Analytic Theology 10 39-53. 2022.Many religious traditions teach that we should worship God, and philosophers have explored the requirement to worship God, and what might make God worthy of worship. These religious traditions also prohibit worshipping other gods. This essay explores, from a Jewish perspective, what it might mean to worship other gods, what the rationale behind the prohibition might be, and why the prohibition might be so grave.
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7Commanding BeliefRatio 28 (2): 163-174. 2014.This essay shows three things: first, that we cannot comply with a command from God to believe in God; second, that God cannot command us to believe in God; and, third, that the divine command theory is false. The third conclusion follows from the second, and the second follows from the first. The essay focuses on an argument from the medieval Jewish philosopher, Hasdai Crescas. It also draws from, and is something of a sequel to, an argument from Brown and Nagasawa published previously in this …Read more
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66God, existence, and fictional objects: the Case for Meinongian theism: John-Mark L. Miravalle. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 186 pp, $102.60International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 88 (1): 133-136. 2020.
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62Non-Being: New Essays on the Metaphysics of Nonexistence (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2021.Nonexistence is ubiquitous, yet mysterious. This volume explores some of the most puzzling questions about non-being and nonexistence, from metaphysics to ethics and beyond: the contributors offer answers from diverse philosophical perspectives, drawing on analytic, continental, Buddhist, and Jewish philosophical traditions.
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43John-Mark L. Miravalle: God, existence, and fictional objects: the case for meinongian theism: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 186 pp, $102.60International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 87 (1): 131-134. 2020.
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1A proof of Exodus : Yehuda HaLevy and Jonathan Edwards walk into a barIn Samuel Lebens, Dani Rabinowitz & Aaron Segal (eds.), Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age, Oxford University Press, Usa. 2019.
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122Divine Contractions: Theism Gives Birth to IdealismReligious Studies. forthcoming.The first part of the paper presents three little arguments from theism to idealism. The second part employs these arguments to make sense of a puzzling doctrine of Jewish mysticism: the doctrine of divine contraction (heb. tzimtzum).
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29Ontological ArgumentsCambridge University Press. 2020.Proving the existence of God is a perennial philosophical ambition. An armchair proof would be the jackpot. Ontological arguments promise as much. This Element studies the most famous ontological arguments from Anselm, Descartes, Plantinga, and others besides. While the verdict is that ontological arguments don't work, they get us entangled in fun philosophical puzzles, from philosophy of religion to philosophy of language, from metaphysics to ethics, and beyond.
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25The Blackwell Companion To Natural Theology. Edited by William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland. Pp xiii, 683. Oxford, Wiley‐Blackwell, 2009, £95.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 59 (3): 627-628. 2018.
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53Arguing About Gods. By Graham Oppy. Pp xix, 449. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, £60.00/£24.99 (review)Heythrop Journal 59 (3): 624-625. 2018.
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27Trent Dougherty and Justin P. McBrayer : Skeptical Theism: New Essays. Oxford University Press 2014European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 9 (2): 231-234. 2017.
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15This Was From God: A Contemporary Theology of Torah and History. By Jerome Yehuda Gellman. Pp. 222. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016. $72 (HBK). (review)Journal of Analytic Theology 6 727-33. 2018.ㅤ
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968Applied Ethics: An Impartial IntroductionHackett Publishing. 2021.This book is devoted to applied ethics. We focus on six popular and controversial topics: abortion, the environment, animals, poverty, punishment, and disability. We cover three chapters per topic, and each chapter is devoted to a famous or influential argument on the topic. After we present an influential argument, we then consider objections to the argument, and replies to the objections. The book is impartial, and set up in order to equip the reader to make up her own mind about the controver…Read more
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The Argument From NumbersIn Jerry L. Walls & Trent Dougherty (eds.), Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project, Oxford University Press. pp. 59-75. 2018.
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The Afterlife in JudaismIn Benjamin Matheson & Yujin Nagasawa (eds.), Palgrave Handbook on the Afterlife, Palgrave. pp. 107-27. 2017.
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1The Necessity of IdealismIn Tyron Goldschmidt & Kenneth L. Pearce (eds.), Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics, Oxford University Press. pp. 34-49. 2017.
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93Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.Idealism is the view that reality is fundamentally mental. Idealism has been influential historically, but it has been neglected in contemporary metaphysical debate. This volume of 17 essays by leading philosophers rectifies the situation.
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215The Promise of a New PastPhilosophers' Imprint 17 1-25. 2017.In light of Jewish tradition and the metaphysics of time, we argue that God can and will change the past. The argument makes for a new answer to the problem of evil and a new theory of atonement.
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24Hume's Enquiry: Expanded and ExplainedRoutledge. 2021.Hume's Enquiry: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font, and analytic summaries of each section. The commentary is like a professor on hand to guide the reader through every line of the daunting prose and every move in the intricate argumentation. The unique design helps students learn how to read and engage with one of modern philosophy'…Read more
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85Berkeley’s Principles: Expanded and ExplainedRoutledge. 2016.Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of the Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font and analytic summaries of each section. The commentary is like a professor on hand to guide the reader through every line of the daunting prose and every move in the intricate argumentation. The unique design helps students learn how to read and engage with one of modern ph…Read more
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86Jewish Responses to the Problem of Evil: Traditional Texts in Contemporary CategoriesPhilosophy Compass 9 (12): 894-905. 2014.This essay outlines answers to the problem of evil from Jewish perspectives. The essay uses traditional Jewish sources to illustrate theodicies familiar in other religious traditions, and introduces a few less familiar Jewish theodicies besides. Other responses to the problem of evil are also considered. Jewish responses are not usually framed in contemporary philosophical categories, and mine is an attempt at categorization. The traditional Jewish sources might show some promise of contributing…Read more
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49Omissions: Agency, Metaphysics and Responsibility, written by Randolph ClarkeJournal of Moral Philosophy 15 (1): 97-99. 2018.
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150The Puzzle of Existence: Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing? (edited book)Routledge. 2013.This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does everything need an explanation? Or can there be brute, inexplicable facts? Could there have been nothing whatsoever? Or is there any being that could not have failed to exist? Is the question meaningful af…Read more
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69An Advertisement of a Promise: God and the Hyper-pastJournal of Analytic Theology 5 629-636. 2017.ㅤ
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79Commanding BeliefRatio 27 (2): 163-174. 2014.This essay shows three things: first, that we cannot comply with a command from God to believe in God; second, that God cannot command us to believe in God; and, third, that the divine command theory is false. The third conclusion follows from the second, and the second follows from the first. The essay focuses on an argument from the medieval Jewish philosopher, Hasdai Crescas. It also draws from, and is something of a sequel to, an argument from Brown and Nagasawa published previously in this …Read more
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