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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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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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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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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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54Existence Puzzles and Probabilistic ExplanationJournal of the American Philosophical Association 2 (3): 469-482. 2016.
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35Shifting the Focus While Conserving Commitments in Research EthicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 42 (2): 103-113. 2017.The papers in this volume are largely about research ethics and cover questions of consent, reproduction, pediatric research, ethical codes, and clinical relationships. Half the papers have this common aspect: they are conservative—in the sense of supporting the standard, prevailing, or popular view—but they shift the focus—supporting the standard views in terms of moral factors generally neglected by the literature. The volume provides a diverse set of papers for the reader: variously addressin…Read more
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87The Rainbow of Experiences, Critical Trust and God: A Defense of Holistic Empiricism. By Kai-man Kwan (review)Faith and Philosophy 29 (4): 472-478. 2012.
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887Judaism, Reincarnation, and TheodicyFaith and Philosophy 30 (4): 393-417. 2013.The doctrine of reincarnation is usually associated with Buddhism, Hinduism and other Eastern religions. But it has also been developed in Druzism and Judaism. The doctrine has been used by these traditions to explain the existence of evil within a moral order. Traversing the boundaries between East and West, we explore how Jewish mysticism has employed the doctrine to help answer the problem of evil. We explore the doctrine particularly as we respond to objections against employing it in a theo…Read more
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306The New Cosmological Argument: O’Connor on Ultimate ExplanationPhilosophia 39 (2): 267-288. 2011.Timothy O’Connor presents a novel and powerful version of the cosmological argument from contingency. What distinguishes his argument is that it does not depend on the Principle of Sufficient Reason. This version thus avoids powerful objections facing the Principle. We present and develop the argument, strengthening it in various ways. We fill in big gaps in the argument and answer criticisms. These include the criticisms that O’Connor considers as well as new criticisms. We explain how his repl…Read more
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