Contents
of recent issues
vol 10, no. 1
Spring-Summer 2007
ARTICLES
GIANLUCA DI MUZIO
Epicurus’ Emergent Atomism
KENNETH G. FERGUSON
Biological Function and Normativity
MICHAEL ALMEIDA
Martin on Miracles
GRAHAM OPPY
Atheism: A Retrospective
MICHELLE BEER
A Defense of the Co-Reporting Theory of Tensed and Tenseless Essences
QUENTIN SMITH
Can the New Tenseless Theory of Time Be Saved by Individual Essences?
MICHELLE BEER
On the Individual Essences of Moments of Time
GRAHAM OPPY
Maydole’s Modal Perfection Argument (Again)
RICHARD CARRIER
Fatal Flaws in Michael Almeida’s Alleged ‘Defeat’ of Rowe’s New Evidential Argument from Evil
Vol. 9, No. 2
Fall-Winter 2006
ARTICLES
VICTOR J. STENGER
A Scenario for a Natural Origin of Our Universe Using a Mathematical Model Based on Established Physics and Cosmology
MICHAEL J. ALMEIDA
The Unreal Problem of No Best World
NICHOLAS EVERITT
The Argument from Imperfection: A New Proof of the Non-existence of God
PAUL NEIMAN
Vivacity and Force as the Source of Hume’s Irregular Arguments
DALE JACQUETTE
Supervenience of Qualia and Intentionality
JAN DEJNOZKA
Observational Ecumenism, Holist Sectarianism: The Quine-Carnap Conflict on Metaphysical Realism
RANDALL E. AUXIER
The Death of Darwinism and the Limits of Evolution
STEPHEN PETERSEN
Construing Faith as Action Won’t Save Pascal’s Wager
REVIEW ARTICLE
JOHN SHOOK
The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, edited by Michael Martin
Vol. 9, No. 1
Spring-Summer 2006
ARTICLES
Michael Thune
Naturalism, Hope, and Alethic Rationality
John Dilworth
Representation as Epistemic Identification
THEORIES OF SIMPLES
Guest Editor: Jeffrey Grupp, Purdue University
Hud Hudson
Simple Statues
Kris McDaniel
Gunky Objects in a Simple World
Andrew Pyle
Atomism and Natural Necessity: A Reconsideration
Joshua T. Spencer
Two Mereological Arguments Against the Possibility of an Omniscient Being
REVIEW ARTICLE
Graham Oppy
Logic and Theism: Arguments for and Against Beliefs in God by Jordan Howard Sobel
Vol. 8, No. 2
Fall-Winter 2006
ARTICLES
DAVID WOODRUFF
What Probability Arguments Show: A Look at Rowe’s Analogy
MICHAEL ALMEIDA AND GRAHAM OPPY
Evidential Arguments from Evil and Skeptical Theism
ROKSANA ALAVI
Robert Kane, Free Will and Neuro-Indeterminism
KIRK K. DURSTON
The Failure of Type-4 Arguments from Evil, in the Face of the Consequential Complexity of History
DISCUSSION
ROBERT MAYDOLE
On Oppy’s Objections to the Modal Perfection Argument
THOMAS METCALF
Entailment and Ontological Arguments: Reply to Maydole
ROBERT MAYDOLE
On Metcalf ’s Objections to the Modal Perfection Argument
SYMPOSIUM ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THEODORE DRANGE
THEODORE M. DRANGE
Is “God Exists” Cognitive?
STEPHEN T. DAVIS
Is Nonbelief a Proof of Atheism?
KEITH PARSONS
Evil and the Unknown Purpose Defense: Remarks Addressed to Theodore Drange’s Nonbelief & Evil
THEODORE M. DRANGE
Reply to Critics
BOOK REVIEW
PETER HARE
Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? Edited by Paul Kurtz
Vol. 8, No. 1
Spring-Summer 2005
SYMPOSIUM ON WILLIAM ROWE’S CAN GOD BE FREE?
BRUCE RUSSELL
God in Relation to Possible Worlds Scenarios: Comments on Rowe’s Can God Be Free?
WILLIAM J. WAINWRIGHT
Rowe on God’s Freedom and God’s Grace
KLAAS J. KRAAY
Theistic Replies to Rowe’s a Priori Argument for Atheism
MICHAEL ALMEIDA
On Infinitely Improving Worlds
WILLIAM ROWE
Replies to Critics
DISCUSSION
MARK OWEN WEBB
In Defense of Anselm: A Reply to Truncellito
vol 7, no. 2
Fall-Winter 2004
SYMPOSIUM ON THE ONTOLOGICAL
CONSEQUENCES OF NATURALISM
Andrew Melnyk
Rea on Naturalism
Austin Dacey
Why Should Anybody Be a Naturalist?
Paul Draper
Comments on World Without Design
W. R. Carter
Reflections on Non-naturalized Necessity
Michael Rea
Replies to Critics
Sophie Allen
Disorder at the Border: Realism, Science, and the Defense of Naturalism
DISCUSSION
Graham Oppy
Maydole's 2QS5 Argument
REVIEW ARTICLE
Michael Martin
Nicholas Everitt, The Non-existence of God
vol
7, no. 1
Spring-Summer 2004
PAPERS
Lydia McGrew
Testability, Likelihoods, and Design
Michael Almeida
The New Evidential Argument Defeated
L. Nathan Oaklander
Absolute Becoming and the Myth of Passage
David A. Truncellito
Anselm’s Equivocation
Michael J. Shaffer
A Defeater of the Claim that Belief in God’s Existence is Properly
Basic
Colin P. Ruloff
Plantinga’s S5 Modal Argument, Obvious Entailment, and Circularity:
Response to Sennett
Brian Zamulinksi
A Defense of the Ethics of Belief
Stephen Kershnar
Moral Responsibility in a Maximally Great Being
DISCUSSION
John F. Post
Reply to Gale and Pruss
Eric Vogelstein
The Consistency of Plantinga’s Argument Against Naturalism:
A Reply to Tedesco
vol 6,
no. 2
Fall-Winter 2003
PAPERS
William F. Vallicella
A Tension in Quine's Theory of Existence
Aleksandar Jokic
The Tensed or Tenseless Existence of Nature
L. Nathan Oaklander
Jokic on the Tensed Existence of Nature
John Dilworth
A Representationalist Approach to Generality
John F. Post
Method, Madness, and Normativity
John Shoemaker
Epistemological Naturalism and Mark Kaplan’s Decision Theory
Nick Trakakis
What No Eye Has Seen: The Skeptical Theist Response to Rowe’s
Evidential Argument from Evil
Laurance Carlin
Can Any Divine Punishment be Morally Justified?
Robert E. Maydole
The Modal Perfection Argument for the Existence of a Supreme
Being
REVIEW ARTICLES
Panayot Butchvarov
A Paradigm of Existence: Onto-Theology Vindicated by William
F. Vallicella
Ryan Wasserman
A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person by Hud Hudson
vol
6, no. 1
Spring-Summer 2003
PAPERS
RICHARD GALE'S PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Christopher McHugh
A Refutation of Gale's Creation-Immutability Arguments
Graham Oppy
The Devilish Complexities of Divine Simplicity
Theodore M. Drange
Gale on Omnipotence
Michael Martin
Gale on God
John H. Post
Omniscience, Weak PSR and Method
Alexander R. Pruss
Post's Critique of Omniscience and of Talk of All True Propositions
Philip L. Quinn
Gale on a Pragmatic Argument for Religious
Belief
Wes Morriston
Does Plantinga's God have Freedom-Canceling Control Over His Creatures? A
Response to Richard Gale
Dean Zimmerman
Richard Gale and the Free Will Defense
William J. Wainwright
Gale on Religious Experience
Richard M. Gale
A Response to My Critics
REVIEW ARTICLES
Kristin Andrews
Neurophilosophy of Free Will by Henrik Walter
William F. Vallicella
The Problem of Existence by Walter Whitherall
vol 5, no.
2
Fall-Winter 2002
PAPERS
Does the Failure of Utilitarianism Justify a Belief
in Intrinsic Value:Ross' and Moore's Default Arguments - Imtiaz Moosa
The Irrelevance/Incoherence of Non-Reductivism About
Personal Identity - David W. Shoemaker
Paley's Argument for Design - Graham Oppy
A Decision-Theoretic Analysis of Faith - Arthur Falk
The Kalam Cosmological Argument: The Question of the
Metaphysical Possibility of an Infinite Set of Real Entities -
Arnold T. Guminski
The Real Problem of Infant and Animal Suffering -
Nathan Nobis
The Moral Hardness of Libertarianism - Richard
Double
Theism, Naturalistic Evolution and the Probability
of Reliable Cognitive Faculties: A Response to Plantinga - Matthew Tedesco
DISCUSSION
Theodore M. Drange
McHugh's Expectations Dashed
Glenn Branch
In Defense of Methodological Naturalism: Reply to Schick
REVIEW ARTICLE
Maxwell Goss
Epistemic Justification by Richard Swinburne
vol
5, no. 1
Spring-Summer 2002
Editorial
Papers
Human Rights: The Ethics Behind the
International Legality - Clark Butler
Creation
ex Nihilo and the Big Bang - Wes Morriston
Arguing About the Kalam Cosmological
Argument - Graham Oppy
Self-Deception and the Ethics of Belief:
Locke's Critique of Enthusiasm - Byron Williston
Incarnation and Identity - William F.
Vallicella
A Refutation of Drange's Arguments from Evil and Nonbelief - Christopher
McHugh
Review Article
Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin
Plantinga - Tyler Wunder
Announcements
vol 4, no.
2
Fall-Winter 2001
Editorial
Papers
Hume, the BAD Paradox, and Value Realism -
Graham Oddie
Sense and Supervenience - John F. Post
Alvin Plantinga's Warranted Christian Belief -
Richard M. Gale
Physical Eschatology - Graham Oppy
Personal Identity, Immortality, and the Soul - L.
Nathan Oaklander
The
Metaphilosophy of Naturalism - Quentin Smith
Book Reviews
vol 4, no. 1
Spring-Summer 2001
Editorial
Greetings
and Farewell
- Keith Parsons
Papers
Omnipotence and the Anselmian God - Wes Morriston
Aquinas's Theory of Natural Law in the Light of
Evolution - Brian Zamulinski
No Messages Without a Sender: A Critique of
Holmes Rolston's Information-Based Argument for the Existence of God - William A. Rottschaefer
Behe,
Biochemistry, and the Invisible Hand - Niall Shanks and Karl Joplin
Science, Religion, and Hyper-Humeanism - Owen
McLeod
Consistency in Presuming Agnosticism - Aaron Holland
Book Reviews
Hume, Holism, and Miracles, by David
Johnson - John Beaudoin
God, Time, and Knowledge, by William
Hasker - James Stacey Taylor
Vol 3, no.
2
Fall-Winter 2000
Editorial
"Defending Naturalism"
- Keith Parsons
Papers
"Methodological Naturalism and
Philosophical Naturalism: Clarifying the Connection" - Barbara Forrest
"Methodological Naturalism vs.
Methodological Realism" - Theodore Schick, Jr.
"The Fine-tuning Argument
Revisited" - Theodore M. Drange
"Natural Explanations for the Anthropic
Coincidences" - Victor J. Stenger
"The Failure of Supernatural
Hypotheses" - Lewis Vaughn
"Perceiving God and Realism"
- Peter Byrne
Book Reviews
Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of
Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe by Michael J. Denton.
Reviewed by Mark I. Vuletic
Suffering Belief: Evil and the Anglo-American
Defense of Theism by A. Weisberger.
Reviewed by Graham Oppy
Vol. 3, no. 1
Spring-Summer 2000
Editorial
Ongoing Debates - Keith M. Parsons, Editor
Papers
Why God Cannot Think: Kant, Omnipresence, and Consciousness - Matt McCormick
Is There a Moral Obligation to Obey God? --Owen McLeod
Plantinga and Wittgenstein on Properly Basic Beliefs --Basil Smith
Discussion
The Rationality of Resurrection for Christians: A Rejoinder --Stephen T. Davis
Christianity and the Rationality of Resurrection --Michael Martin
Quantum Cosmology, Theistic Philosophical Cosmology, and the Existence Question --George Nakhnikian
Concerning the Metaphysical Necessity of the Universe Beginning Uncaused: A Reply to George Nakhnikian -- Quentin Smith
Reply to Parsons and Lippard on the Argument from Reasons --Victor Reppert
Further Reflections on the Argument from Reason --Keith M. Parsons
Book Reviews
The Eternal Footman by James Morrow
Reviewed by Craig White
Vol. 2, no. 2
Fall-Winter 1999
Editorial
The Big Issues - Keith Parsons
Papers
Can an Ancient Argument of Carneades on Cardinal Virtues and Divine Attributes be Used
to Disprove the Existence of God? - Douglas Walton
Dying for It - R. Harwood
On Some Criticisms of Hume's Principle of Proportioning Cause to Effect
- John
Beaudoin
The Kalam Cosmological Argument and the Possibility of an Actually Infinite Future
- Erik Sotnak
Richard Swinburne's Arguments - Paul Edwards
Book Reviews
God, Reason and Theistic Proofs by Stephen T. Davis
Reviewed by Basil Smith
God and Inscrutable Evil by David O'Connor
Reviewed by Peter Hutcheson
The Psychological Origins of the Resurrection Myth by Jack A. Kent
Reviewed by Antony Flew
Is There a God? by Richard Swinburne
Reviewed by Austin Dacey
Vol. 2, no. 1
Spring-Summer 1999
Editorial
Uncovering the Other Side of the Debate - Keith Parsons
Papers
Must the Past Have a Beginning? - Wes Morriston
Are the Gods Apolitical? - E.M. Fales
Discussion
The Argument from Reason - Victor Reppert
Historical but Indistinguishable Differences: Some Notes on Victor Reppert's Paper
- Jim Lippard
Is Belief in the Resurrection Rational? A Response to Michael Martin
- Stephen T.
Davis
Reply to Davis - Michael Martin
Book Reviews
The Last Word Thomas Nagel
Objectivity: The Obligations of Impersonal Reason by Nicholas Rescher
Reviewed by Keith M. Parsons
The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for
Jesus by Lee Strobel
Reviewed by Jeffery Jay Lowder
Vol. 1, no. 2
Fall-Winter 1998
Editorial
Debating Naturalism - Keith Parsons
Papers
On Being a Secularist All the Way Down - Kai Nielsen
Reflective Equilibrium and the Contemplative Ideal of Knowledge - Isaac Nevo
Legor et Legar: Schopenhauer's Atheistic Morality - Timothy J. Madigan
Incompatible-Properties Arguments: A Survey - Theodore M. Drange
Book Reviews
Restoring Pride: The Lost Virtue of Our Age by Richard Taylor
Reviewed by Paul B. Cliteur
The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom by
Gerald L. Schroeder
Reviewed by Graham Oppy
The God of Spinoza: A Philosophical Study by B. Richard Mason
Philosophical Essays: Antony Flew edited by John Shosky
Reviewed by J. James Birx
Vol. 1, no. 1
Spring-Summer, 1998
Editorial
Why Philo? - Keith M. Parsons
Papers
First Things First: Toward a Minimalistic Definition of Humanism - Paul Kurtz
Theological Misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology - Adolph Grunbaum
R.M. Adams's Theodicy of Grace - Richard Gale
Naturalism and Religion: Must Naturalistic Explanations Explain Religion Away?
- Kai
Nielsen
Why the Resurrection Is Initially Improbable - Michael Martin
Why Steven Hawking's Cosmology Precludes a Creator
- Quentin Smith
The `Big Bang' Argument for the Existence of God -
Theodore Schick, Jr.
Nonbelief vs. Lack of Evidence: Two Atheological Arguments -
Theodore M. Drange
Book Reviews
Arguing for Atheism
by Robin Le Poidevin
Reviewed by Keith M. Parsons
Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Marion Faber
with Stephen Lehmann, introduction by Arthur C. Danto
Reviewed by J. James Birx
Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same by Karl
Lowith
Reviewed by J. James Birx
