Summary: A clear introduction to the Ontological Argument for God’s existence, and different versions of it….
Teleological and Design Arguments
Summary: This chapter takes you through the history of teleological arguments and an analysis of them: beginning with traditional teleological arguments and their origins, and moving to discuss modern day…
The Experiential Problem of Petitionary Prayer
…to endorse such an account due to wanting to respect widespread intuitions about this feature of petitionary prayer, they should also be motivated to endorse an account of prayer that…
Many-One Identity and the Trinity
…so happens, some metaphysicians claim exactly that. They accept Composition as Identity: each fusion is identical to the plurality of its parts. I evaluate Composition as Identity’s application to the…
Shifting Sands: An Interest-Relative Theory of Vagueness
Summary: I propose that the meanings of vague expressions render the truth conditions of utterances of sentences containing them sensitive to our interests. For example, ‘expensive’ is analyzed as meaning…
In Defence of Mind-Body Dualism
Abstract: In this essay, I defend naturalistic dualism. I take, as my starting point, and argument made by Rene Descartes in his Meditations. I expand and defend this argument, drawing…
Agency Incompatibilism and Divine Agency
…determination of at least some divine actions by the True and the Good. I attempt to develop such an argument and then consider how to respond to it from the…
Religion on the Cheap
Introduction: The project of this chapter is to address this question: is it sensible to live a life that involves religious practices and experiences and involvement in religious community within…
Epistemic Trust in Oneself and Others – and Argument from Analogy?
Abstract: Richard Foley and others have recently argued that there is an a priori connection between rational trust in one’s own faculties to rational trust of other human persons. This…
Amelioration and Includion: Gender Identity and the Concept of Woman
Abstract: Feminist analyses of gender concepts must avoid the inclusion problem, the fault of marginalizing or excluding some prima facie women. Sally Haslanger’s ‘ameliorative’ analysis of gender concepts seeks to…