Nevin Climenhaga and Daniel Rubio's new paper, " Molinism: Explaining our Freedom Away " ( Mind 131 (522): 459-485. 2022) is a must read. H...| exapologist.blogspot.com
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Teehan, John. "Cognitive Science, Evil, and God", in DeCruz and Nichols, Eds. Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy. Bloomsbury, 2017, 39-60. (Podcast here)| ex-apologist
An everlasting universal undercutting defeater for (even very slight)-majority-rational-acceptance of right-libertarianism| ex-apologist
Plantinga’s modal ontological argument relies on the premise that God’s necessarily existent essence is instantiated or made concrete in at least one metaphysically possible world. Such an argument is arguaby most naturally at home in the context of Platonism about possible worlds. Conditional on that assumption, the following argument challenges the possibility of a Plantingian god by considering in general how any abstract essence might be made concrete or possibly instantiated from wit...| ex-apologist
Here is a sketch of two arguments for why there is anything (concrete) rather than nothing (concrete), which are based on, or at least inspired by, ideas found in Spinoza's Ethics and Leibniz's "On the Ultimate Origination of Things":| ex-apologist
(From an old Facebook post of mine back in 2018)| ex-apologist
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Here. His replies to participants should be available by the end of the year.| ex-apologist
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Resto Quiñones, Jashiel. "Incompatible And Incomparable Perfections: A New Argument Against Perfect Being Theism", International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (forthcoming).| ex-apologist
...is the title of J.L. Schellenberg's forthcoming book, which offers a large number of novel arguments against Christian theism. I've read the manuscript, and as one would expect from Schellenberg, it's clear, tightly argued, and compelling. Required reading!| ex-apologist
...is the title of Thomas Oberle's new paper in Phil. Studies. Here's the abstract:| ex-apologist
Eric Schwitzgebel reviews the book for NDPR.| ex-apologist
Oren N. The evidential challenge for petitionary prayer. Religious Studies. Published online 2024:1-18. doi:10.1017/S0034412524000209.| ex-apologist
Miroslaw Szatkowski's new book, Ontology of Divinity(De Gruyter, 2024) is now out. It's a massive volume (818 pages), containing 35 newly-commissioned chapters by 38 contributors (including yours truly). Kudos to Miroslaw and all of the contributors for their excellent work.| ex-apologist
Robert M. Adams, a seminal figure in philosophy of religion, has passed. Details here.| ex-apologist
Li, H. & Saad, B., (2024) “The Multiverse Theodicy Meets Population Ethics”, Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy 10: 56. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.5193| ex-apologist
...is now out, and available for free download for a limited time. Required reading.| ex-apologist
Schmid, Joseph C. "Benardete paradoxes, patchwork principles, and the infinite past", Synthese, forthcoming.| ex-apologist
Launonen, Lari. "Hearing God speak? Debunking arguments and everyday religious experiences", International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, forthcoming.| ex-apologist
"Are infinite explanations self-explanatory?", Erkenntnis 88 (5): 1935-1954. 2021.| ex-apologist
Carrie Figdor interviews Philip Goff on his terrific new book, Why? The Purpose of the Universe, on New Books in Philosophy.| ex-apologist
Schmid, Joseph C. "The End is Near: Grim Reapers and Endless Futures", Mind (forthcoming).| ex-apologist
Tooley, Michael. "Wes Morriston’s ‘Skeptical Demonism’ Argument from Evil and Timothy Perrine’s Response", Sophia (forthcoming). | ex-apologist
a philosophy of religion blog| exapologist.blogspot.com
DRAFT: DO NOT COPY IN WHOLE OR IN PART. FAIR USE RULES APPLY. COMMENTS WELCOME! 1. Introduction Call classical theism the view that t...| exapologist.blogspot.com