…within which one typical traditional theodicy, namely, that of Thomas Aquinas, is embedded. It explicates Aquinas’s account of the good for human beings, including the nature of love and union…
From Intelligent machines to the human brain
Summary: How does one make a clever adaptive machine that can recognise speech, control an aircraft, and detect credit card fraud? Recent years have seen a revolution in the kinds…
Dao Companion to the Analects
Publisher’s note: This volume surveys the major philosophical concepts, arguments, and commitments of the Confucian classic, the Analects. In thematically organized chapters, leading scholars provide a detailed, scholarly introduction to…
Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social world
…and humor in a style accessible to a wide variety of readers. In addition to the basics, Sex/Gender ponders the moral, ethical, social and political side to this inescapable subject….
Why Not Believe in an Evil God? Pragmatic Encroachment and Some Implications for Philosophy of Religion
…can alter the epistemic status of beliefs. I then explore some of the implications of my argument for how we do philosophy of religion, arguing that practical and contextual as…
Simplicity
Summary: An analysis of the concept of divine simplicity, including its origins, together and the traditional difficulties of attributing this mysterious attribute to God, both in a ‘stand alone’ way…
Gender and the Infinite: on the Aspiration to be All there Is
Introduction: In this essay I would like to offer a feminist rethinking of a core topic for a more inclusive philosophy of religion. I advocate a gender-sensitive approach to the…
Responsibility for Implicit Bias
Introduction: Philosophers who have written about implicit bias have claimed or implied that individuals are not responsible, and therefore not blameworthy, for their implicit biases, and that this is a…
A Metaphysics for Freedom
…accorded to animal agents. It offers a distinctive, non-dualistic version of libertarianism, rooted in a conception of what biological forms of organisation might make possible in the way of freedom….
The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music
Publisher’s Note: What is the difference between a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and the symphony itself? What does it mean for musicians to be faithful to the works they…