Browsing Philosophy (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Philosophy of religion"
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Are We Free to Break the Laws of Providence?
(2020)Can I be free to perform an action if God has decided to ensure that I do not choose that action? I show that Molinists and simple foreknowl- edge theorists are committed to answering in the affirmative. This is problematic ... -
Astell and Masham on Epistemic Authority and Women's Individual Judgment in Religion
(Oxford University Press, 2022)In 1705, Mary Astell and Damaris Masham both published works advocating for women’s use of individual judgment in matters of religion. Although both philosophers advocate for women’s education and intellectual autonomy, ... -
Berkeley's Philosophy of Religion
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Foundational Grounding and Creaturely Freedom
(2021)The argument from contingency for the existence of God is best understood as a request for an explanation of the total sequence of causes and effects in the universe (‘History’ for short). Many puzzles about how there could ... -
God's Perfect Will: Remarks on Johnston and O'Connor
(Oxford University Press, 2022)How can God's creative decision be free? Why would God create anything at all? Why would God create a world like this one, with all of its evils? These puzzles lie at the heart of classical theism. Mark Johnston has argued ... -
Infinite Power and Finite Powers
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Intentionality, Belief, and the Logical Problem of Evil
(2020)The logical problem of evil is the appearance of inconsistency between the existence of God and the existence of any evil at all. A defence against the logical problem of evil is an argument that purports to show that ... -
Matter, God, and Nonsense: Berkeley's Polemic Against the Freethinkers in the Three Dialogues
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Understanding Omnipotence
(2012)