DOCSLIB.ORG

Curriculum Vitae of Robert Alistair Larmer (Short Version)

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

Curriculum Vitae of Robert Alistair Larmer (Short Version) Institutional Address: Department of Philosophy University of New Brunswick P.O. Box 4400 Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada E3B 5A3 (Email: [email protected]) (Fax: 1-506-447-3072) (Phone: 1-506-453-4762) Research: (Refereed work is indicated by an >R=) Books (R) Dialogues on Miracle (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2015) (R) The Legitimacy of Miracle (Lanham:MD: Lexington Books, 2014) (R) Ethics in the Workplace: Selected Readings in Business Ethics, 2nd edition, (Los Angeles: Wadsworth Publishing, 2001) (R) Water Into Wine? An Investigation of the Concept of Miracle (Montreal: McGill- Queen's Press, 1988; rpt. 1996). (R) Ethics in the Workplace: Selected Readings in Business Ethics (New York: West Educational Publishing, 1996) (R) Questions of Miracle (Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press, 1996) Chapters in Books (R) The Meaning of Miracle in The Cambridge Companion to Miracle, ed. Graham Twelftree, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) (R) Miracles as Evidence for the Existence of God in God and Argument, ed. William Sweet (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999) (R) Improper Payments and Gifts@ in Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Vol. 2, (Academic Press, 1998) (R) Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Business Ethics and Society, edited Lisa H. Newton/Maureen M. Ford, 3rd-9th editions (Guilford, Connecticut: Dushkin, 1994-2007) Articles in Academic Journals (R) “Theistic Evolution, Intelligent Design, and the Charge of Deism” Philosophia Christi. Vol. 20, No. 2, 2018. 415-428. (R) “Decretalism and the Laws of Nature” Philosophia Christi. Vol. 19, No. 2, 2017. 439-448. (R) “Everlasting Check or Philosophical Fiasco” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion,Vol. 83, No. 1, 2018. 97-110. (R) “Doubting Thomists and Intelligent Design” Sophia, Vol 56, 2017, 1-10. (R) “Special Divine Acts: Three Pseudo-Problems and One Red Herring” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion Vol. 7, No. 4, 2015, 61-71. (R) “Special Divine Acts and the NIODA Project” Philosophia Christi, Vol 17. No. 1, 2015, 71-85. (R) “Miracles as Evidence for the Existence of God: A Response to Frank Jankunis” Dialogue, Vol. 53, No. 4, Dec. 2014, 611-622. (R) “Divine Intervention and the Conservation of Energy: A Reply to Evan Fales” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 75, No. 1, February 2014, 27-38. (R) “Larmer’s Newman Lecture on Miracles, Divine Agency and the Laws of Nature Responses and Replies” Toronto Journal of Theology, Vol 28, No. 1, 2012, 145-174. (R) “Misunderstanding Hume’s Argument Against Miracle: A Response to Gregory L. Bock” Philosophia Christi, Vol 13, No.1, 2011, 155-164. (R) “Miracles, Divine Agency and the Laws of Nature” Toronto Journal of Theology, Vol 27, No 2, 2011. 267-290. (R) “Interpreting Hume on Miracle” Religious Studies. Vol. 45, No. 3, 2009, 325-338. (R) ADivine Agency and the Principle of the Conservation of Energy@ Zygon. Vol. 44, No. 3, 2009, 543-557. (R) “Miracles, Physicalism and the Laws of Nature”, Religious Studies, Vol 44, No. 2, 2008, 149-159 (R) AC.S. Lewis= Critique of David Hume=s >Of Miracles=@, Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2008, 154-171. (R) Theistic Evolution and Intelligent Design: A Reply to Denis Lamoureux Christian Scholars’ Review, Vol 37, No. 1, 2007, 91-100. (R) “Intelligent Design as a Theistic theory of Biological Origins and Development” Christian Scholars’ Review, Vol 36, No. 1, 2006, pp. 47-61. (R) Theistic Complementarianism and Ockam=s Razor@, Philosophia Christi, Vol 7, No. 2, 2005, pp. 503-514. (R) Miracles: An Apology for Atheism? Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 3, Summer 2004, 555-568. (R) Is Methodological Naturalism Question Begging? Philosophia Christi, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2003, pp. 113-130. (R) AMiracles, Evidence and God@ Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, XLII, 2003, pp. 107-22. (R) Is There Anything Wrong with >God-of-the-Gaps Reasoning? International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol 52, 2002, pp. 129-142. (R) Mind, Miracles and Intelligent Design Origins and Design, Vol 39, Fall 2002, pp. 22- 30. (R) Christian Anthropology: Saving the Soul? Philosophia Christi, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2000, pp. 211-226. (R) "Miracles, Evil and Justified Belief: Some Final Comments" Sophia Vol. 36, No. 2, September-October 1997, pp. 79-87. (R) "The Ethics of Investing: A Reply to William Irvine" Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 16, 1997, pp. 397-400. (This article received the Anbar citation for excellence.) (R) "Corporate Executives: Disasters and Moral Responsibility" Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 15, No. 7, 1996, pp. 785-788. (R) "Abortion, Personhood and the Potential for Consciousness" Journal of Applied Ethics, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1995, pp. 241-251. (R) "Miracles, Evidence and Theism: A Further Apologia" Sophia Vol. 33, No. 1, March 1994, pp. 51-57. (R) "Does a Beginningless Universe Imply an Actual Infinity of Past Events?" Lyceum, Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 1993, pp. 11-18. (R) "Anthropologie chrétienne: à reconsidérer de nouveau" Carrefour, Vol. XV, No. 1, 1993 (La Philosophie de la Religion à la Fin du XXe Siécle) pp. 13-25. (R) "Miracles and Conservation Laws: A Reply to Professor MacGill", Sophia, Vol. 31, 1992, pp. 89-95. (R) "Goodness & God's Will", Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 35, No. 2, (June 1992) pp. 193-198. (R) "Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty", Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 11, 1991, pp. 125-28. (R) "Miracles and Natural Explanations: A Rejoinder", Sophia, Vol. 28, #3, (Oct. 1989) pp. 7-12. (R) "Against 'Against Miracles'", Sophia, Vol. 27, #1, (April 1988), pp. 20-25. (R) "Mind-Body Interaction and the Conservation of Energy", International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 26, 1986, pp. 277-285. (R) "Free Will, Hegemony and Neurophysiological Indeterminism", Philosophia, Vol. 16 (August 1986), pp. 177-189. (R) "Miracles and the Laws of Nature", Dialogue, Vol. 24 (Summer 1985) pp. 227-235. (R) "Miracles and Criteria", Sophia, Vol. 23 (1984), pp. 4-10. Book Reviews: Thomas Holden, Spectres of False Divinity: Hume’s Moral Atheism, Religious Studies, Vol. 46, No. 4, Dec. 2010. 541-545. Denis O. Lamoureux, Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution, Christian Scholars’ Review, Vol. 38, No. 4, Summer 2009 Peter van Inwagen, ed., Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil, Philosophy in Review, Vol XXV, No. 4, pp. 306-307. William Sweet, Religious Belief: The Contempory Debate, 2001 Dharma Endowment Lectures, Sophia, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2004, p. 73. Leo Groarke, The Ethics of the New Economy Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, Vol. XL, No. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 193-194. AMysticism and Vocation@ Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, Vol. 37, No. 3, 1998, pp. 367-369. "The Moral Maze" Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. 15, No. 5, October, 1996 pp. 335-337) "Forever Faithful: The Unfolding of God's promise to Creation", The Canadian Catholic Review, Vol. XII, No. 7, July/August 1994, pp. 24-25) "Universe and Creed" The Canadian Catholic Review, Vol. XI, No. 7, July/August 1993, pp. 27-28) "The Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought" Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. XII, No. 2, pp. 148-150. "Wisdom and Humanness in Psychology: Prospects for a Christian Approach" The Canadian Catholic Review, Vol. 10, No. 6, June 1992, pp. 26-7. "Body, Soul and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate" The Canadian Catholic Review, Vol. 10, No. 4, April 1992, p. 29. "God, Scepticism and Modernity" The Canadian Catholic Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, February 1991, pp. 70-1. "Return To Reason Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. 11, No. 2, April 1991, pp. 96- 7. "Miracles and Physics" The Canadian Catholic Review, Vol. 8, No. 5, 1990, pp. 185-6. "The Reconstruction of the Christian Revelation Claim", Theological Students Fellowship Bulletin, Vol. 10, No. 5, 1987, p. 37. Metaphysics: Constructing a World-View, Channels, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1985, p. 17. Miracles and Modern Thought", Theological Students Fellowship Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1983, p. 22. Encyclopedia Entries “Agency” Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present. Ed. Patrick J. Hayes (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2016) p. 5. “Annet, Peter” Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present. Ed. Patrick J. Hayes (Santa Barbara, California: ABC- CLIO, 2016) p. 7 “Price, Richard” Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present. Ed. Patrick J. Hayes (Santa Barbara, California: ABC- CLIO, 2016) pp. 331-332 “Sherlock, Thomas” Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present. Ed. Patrick J. Hayes (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2016) p. 354. “Whately, Richard” Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present. Ed. Patrick J. Hayes (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2016) p. 429. “Woolston, Thomas” Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present. Ed. Patrick J. Hayes (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2016) p. 432. Keynote Addresses “Miracles, Divine Agency, and the Laws of Nature” Canadian Theological Society Jay Newman Memorial Lecture, May 30, 2011. St. Thomas University, Congress of Learned Societies, Fredericton, New Brunswick. “Methodological Naturalism and Christian Scholarship” Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers, May 29, 2012. University of Waterloo, Congress of Learned Societies, Waterloo, Ontario. Conference Papers: A: International “The Many Inadequate Justifications of Methodological Naturalism” Causality, Free Will and Special Divine Action Conference, International Academy of Philosophy, Vienna, September 12, 2017. “Do Miracles Require Extraordinary Evidence” Assumption College, Worcester Mass. March 17, 2015. (R) “Special Divine Acts: Three Pseudo-Problems and a Red Herring” Special Divine Acts Conference, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, St.
Recommended publications
  • Christian Apologetics Who Needs It

    Christian Apologetics Who Needs It

    Advice to European Christian Apologists William Lane Craig SUMMARY Tips to budding European Christian apologists. ADVICE TO EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN APOLOGISTS In 1983, when Alvin Plantinga delivered his inaugural lecture as the John O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, he chose as his topic 'Advice to Christian Philosophers.' Today I have chosen as my subject the related, but somewhat narrower, topic 'Advice to Christian Apologists,' more specifically European Christian Apologists. Now some of you may be thinking, 'Who are you, an American, to be giving us advice?' Plantinga faced a similar question and provided the best means of handling it. He replied, 'That’s a good question. I shall deal with it as one properly deals with good questions to which one doesn’t know the answer: I shall ignore it.' So, too, shall I. I want only to assure you that the advice I shall give, though pointed, springs out of a deep burden for Europe and that I stand united with you in our common task. It is part of the purpose of this conference to awaken a movement of Christian apologetics in Europe with a view toward reclaiming lost intellectual territory for Christ, to remold European intellectual life in such a way as to make the Christian Weltanschauung a viable intellectual alternative for educated European men and women today. The task is daunting, indeed, overwhelming; some might even say hopeless. But given that we serve a God for whom nothing is impossible (Matt. 19.26) and that this is the vision which inspires us and that such is the task which is laid upon us, how shall we best go about it? Before we can answer that question, we need to have some grasp of the challenge confronting us.
  • 1 CURRICULUM VITAE R. J. Snell Professor of Philosophy Director Of

    1 CURRICULUM VITAE R. J. Snell Professor of Philosophy Director Of

    CURRICULUM VITAE R. J. Snell Professor of Philosophy Director of Philosophy Program Co-Director, Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good Eastern University 1300 Eagle Road St Davids, PA 19087 (610) 225-5049 (o) (609) 435.4485 (c) [email protected] Research Areas: AOS: History of Philosophy, Augustinian-Thomistic Tradition, Bernard Lonergan AOC: Ethics and Politics, Liberal Education, Natural Law Degrees: Ph.D., Marquette University, Philosophy, 2004 Rev. John P. Raynor Dissertation Fellowship M.A., Boston College, Philosophy, 1999 Comprehensive exams passed with distinction B.Sc., Liberty University, Communications, 1997 Magna Cum Laude, Honors Program Academic Experience: Professor of Philosophy, Eastern University, 2013- Research Director, Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good, 2011- Associate Professor of Philosophy, Eastern University, 2008-2013. Director of Philosophy Program, 2009- Faculty member in the Templeton Honors College, 2009- Interim Director, Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good, 2010-2011 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, North Park University, 2003-2008 Director, Honors Program, 2005-2008 Teaching Assistant, Marquette University, Department of Philosophy, 1999-2002 Instructor, Boston College, Department of Communications, 1998-1999 1 I. PUBLICATIONS A. Books The Perspective of Love: Natural Law in a New Mode (under contract with Pickwick, manuscript submitted). Authentic Cosmopolitanism: Love, Sin, and Grace in the Christian University, with Steven D. Cone (Eugene: OR: Pickwick, 2013). Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on Knowing without a God’s- Eye View (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2006). B. Chapters and Articles “Authentic Cosmopolitanism and the Locale,” Front Porch Republic Manifesto (forthcoming). “Protestant Prejudice: On Natural Law,” The City, Winter 2013: 21-30.
  • Spring 2005 � Faculty News

    Spring 2005 Faculty News

    Spring 2005 Faculty news Guest speakers New courses for 2005-06 New faculty in the Department Philosophy medals and awards Philosophy Theses for 2005 WHAT’S NEW IN THE DEPARTMENT @X It has been an interesting and busy year in Philosophy @ StFX, and 2005-06 promises to be the same. In the fall, the Department will be offering a number of courses for the first time – Philosophy of Law (Phil 372), Social and Political Philosophy (Phil 371) and Ethics in Health and Medicine (Phil 366). We will also be offering a senior seminar on the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant (Phil 460). A new professor, Dr. John Cook, will be joining the Department of Philosophy in the fall – he is our second new faculty member in as many years. (Read more about Dr. Cook on page 3.) In the past year, several books have been published by professors in the Department, and Department members continue to be invited to give lectures across Canada and around the world. The StFX Philosophy Club has been active as well – and their new T-shirts are one of the “must have” items of 2005. The breadth and range of study and research – by students and by faculty – in Philosophy at StFX is FACULTY OF THE remarkable. The quality of our teaching and research DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY has been long recognised. Dr. Steven Baldner received Back row (left to right): Louis Groarke, William Sweet the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award in (Chair), James Mensch. 2004, and Dr. William Sweet received its Research Front row (left to right): Stephen Baldner, Award in 2001.
  • Religion-And-The-Challenges.Pdf

    Religion-And-The-Challenges.Pdf

    RELIGION AND THE CHALLENGES OF SCIENCE Does science pose a challenge to religion and religious belief? This question has been a matter of long•standing debate • and it continues to concern not only scholars in philosophy, theology, and the sciences, but also those involved in public educational policy. This volume provides background to the current ‘science and religion’ debate, yet focuses as well on themes where recent discussion of the relation between science and religion has been particularly concentrated. The first theme deals with the history of the interrelation of science and religion. The second and third themes deal with the implications of recent work in cosmology, biology and so•called intelligent design for religion and religious belief. The fourth theme is concerned with ‘conceptual issues’ underlying, or implied, in the current debates, such as: Are scientific naturalism and religion compatible? Are science and religion bodies of knowledge or practices or both? Do religion and science offer conflicting truth claims? By illuminating contemporary discussion in the science•religion debate and by outlining the options available in describing the relation between the two, this volume will be of interest to scholars and to members of the educated public alike. This page intentionally left blank Religion and the Challenges of Science Edited by WILLIAM SWEET St Francis Xavier University, Canada and RICHARD FEIST Saint Paul University, Canada © William Sweet and Richard Feist 2007 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.
  • Philosophia Christi 16.2

    Philosophia Christi 16.2

    VOLUME 20, NUMBER 1 2018 PHILOSOPHIA CHRISTI EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION CRAIG J. HAZEN 3 DUALISM AND PHYSICALISM Introduction to Symposium ANGUS MENUGE AND 7 on Dualism and Physicalism JONATHAN J. LOOSE The Argument to the Soul from RICHARD SWINBURNE 13 Partial Brain Transplants Swinburne’s Brain Transplants ERIC T. OLSON 21 The Primacy of the Mental: From BRANDON RICKABAUGH 31 Russellian Monism to Substance Dualism The Fundamental Limitations of Cognitive J. P. MORELAND 43 Neuroscience for Stating and Solving the Ubiquitous Metaphysical Issues in Philosophy of Mind What Has CERN to Do with Jerusalem? WILLIAM HASKER 53 The First-Person Perspective LYNNE RUDDER BAKER 61 The First-Person Perspective Is ANGUS MENUGE 67 Not a Mere Mental Property The Constitution View: Not So Simple JONATHAN J. LOOSE 73 Souls, Emergent and Created: Why JOSHUA R. FARRIS 83 Mere Emergent Dualism Is Insufficient Emergent Dualism and Emergent WILLIAM HASKER 93 Creationism: A Response to Joshua Farris ARTICLES Defending Theistic Conceptualism STEPHEN E. PARRISH 101 Peter Martyr Vermigli’s Account of CHRISTOPHER WOZNICKI 119 Petitionary Prayer: A Reformation Alternative to Contemporary Two-Way Contingency Accounts God and Possible Worlds: JOHN C. WINGARD, JR. 139 A Reformed Exploration Pauline Arguments for God’s Existence DANIEL A. BONEVAC 155 “Nobody Has the Right to Tell Me STEPHEN T. DAVIS 169 What to Believe or Do”: The Illusion of Human Autonomy PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES Miracles, Evidence, and Agent BENJAMIN C. F. SHAW 185 Causation: A Review Article AND GARY HABERMAS God and Gödel JOHN WARWICK MONTGOMERY 197 THE EPISTEMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF RELIGIOUS DISAGREEMENT The Epistemology of Religious CHAD BOGOSIAN 207 Disagreement: An Introduction AND PAUL COPAN Religious Disagreement and Divine Hiddenness JON MATHESON 215 Rowe’s Friendly Atheism and the CHAD BOGOSIAN 227 Epistemology of Religious Disagreement The Uniqueness Argument and THOMAS D.
  • Philosophia Christi 13.2 Cover

    Philosophia Christi 13.2 Cover

    EDITOR’s INTRODUCTION Craig J. Hazen 327 FORUM ON ERIK J. WIELENBERG’s ROBUST ETHICS 329 Adam Lloyd Johnson, William Lane Craig, P Tyler Dalton McNabb, Mark C. Murphy HILOSO & Erik J. Wielenberg ARTICLES The Imago Dei and Blaise Pascal’s Jonathan Threlfall 379 Abductive Anthropological Argument P Does the Purpose Theory of the Meaning Elliott R. Crozat 401 HIA of Life Entail an Irrational God? Theistic Evolution, Intelligent Robert Larmer 415 Design, and the Charge of Deism C The Open Theistic Multiverse Timothy Blank 429 HRISTI The Argument from Disagreement Christopher W. Love 443 to Moral Skepticism Origen on Demonic Ignorance Travis Dumsday 463 Christian Materialism and Demonic Temptation Matthew J. Hart 481 Intentionality contra Physicalism Dallas Willard & 497 Brandon Rickabaugh Philosophia Christi • Biola University • P.O. Box 1298, La Mirada, CA 90637 PHILOSOPHIA CHRISTI Volume 20 Number 2 2018 Extending the Debate on the Victor Reppert 517 Argument from Reason Volume 20 Number 2 2018 Retiring the Argument from Reason David Kyle Johnson 541 PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES Evil Does Not Pose Any Special Benjamin H. Arbour & 567 FORUM ON Problem for Berkeleyan Idealism Gregory E. Trickett ERIK J. WIELENBERG’s ROBUST ETHICS What’s Wrong with Theistic Evolution? William Hasker 581 BOOK REVIEWS 591 NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 604 PHILOSOPHIA CHRISTI PHILOSOPHIA CHRISTI “. in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” Col 2.3 PUBLISHED BY THE EVANGELICAL PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY WITH THE SUPPORT OF BIOLA UNIVERSITY EDITOR Craig J. Hazen GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS Biola University We invite English-language submissions of original research in philosophy, apologetics, philosophical theology, philosophy of religion(s), ethics, worldviews, and philosophical ADVISORY BOARD and theological prolegomena.
  • Is Yahweh a Moral Monster? the New Atheists and Old Testament Ethics

    Is Yahweh a Moral Monster? the New Atheists and Old Testament Ethics

    PHILOSOPHIA CHRISTI VOL. 10, NO. 1 © 2008 Is Yahweh a Moral Monster? The New Atheists and Old Testament Ethics PAUL COPAN Philosophy and Ethics Palm Beach Atlantic University Palm Beach, Florida The New Atheists and the Old Testament: A Brief Overview Today’s “new atheists” are not at all impressed with the moral creden- tials of the Old Testament (OT) God. Oxonian Richard Dawkins thinks that Yahweh is truly a moral monster: “What makes my jaw drop is that people today should base their lives on such an appalling role model as Yahweh— and even worse, that they should bossily try to force the same evil monster (whether fact or fiction) on the rest of us.” Dawkins deems God’s commanding Abraham to sacrifice Isaac to be “disgraceful” and tantamount to “child abuse and bullying.” Moreover, this God breaks into a “monumental rage whenever his chosen people flirted with a rival god,” resembling “nothing so much as sexual jealousy of the worst kind.” Add to this the killing of the Canaanites—an “ethnic cleansing” in which “bloodthirsty massacres” were carried out with “xenophobic relish.” Joshua’s destruction of Jericho is “morally indistinguishable from Hitler’s invasion of Poland, or Saddam Hussein’s massacres of the Kurds and the Marsh Arabs.” ABSTRACT: The new atheists (Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens) level arguments against Old Testament morality as primitive and barbaric, presumably undercutting belief in the biblical God (Yahweh). Yet the Old Testament presents creational moral ideals in Genesis –. Because of Israel’s embeddedness in the ancient Near East’s harsh, morally-problematic social milieu, Old Testament legislation is in places still morally inferior, though offering dramatic, incre- mental improvements upon such conditions.
  • Philosophia Christi 16.2

    Philosophia Christi 16.2

    VOLUME 19, NUMBER 1 2017 PHILOSOPHIA CHRISTI EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION CRAIG HAZEN 3 ARTICLES A Counterexample Deity Theory WALTER SCHULTZ 7 What Are Epistemic Reasons? GERALD K. HARRISON 23 A Divine Analysis Are Naturalistic Theories of Emergence D. T. TIMMERMAN 37 Compatible with Science? The Problem with Evil PAUL A. MACDONALD JR. 59 AND JOEL BROWN Breaking Laws of Nature JEFFREY KOPERSKI 83 Black Lives, Sex, and Revealed Religion Matter! CHARLES TALIAFERRO 103 Contrasting Kantian Philosophy of Religion with Cambridge Platonism PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES Can the New Wave Baptize Kant’s Deism? Maybe CHRIS L. FIRESTONE 123 Can the New Wave of Kant Scholarship NATHAN A. JACOBS 135 Baptize Kant’s Deism? No Apophatic Theology, Apostles, and Alethic Realism BRADLEY N. SEEMAN 145 Referring to Words: Idolatry, Truth, MYRON B. PENNER 157 and the Possibility of Naming God The Applicability of the Planck Length to BRENT C. LYONS 171 Zeno, Kalam, and Creation Ex Nihilo Benevolent Billy: A Thought Experiment to Show JORDAN WESSLING 181 that Benevolence Is Insufficient for Christian Love Mumford on Phenomenology and J. P. MORELAND 193 Beginning of Life Ethics The Perverted Faculty Argument TIMOTHY HSIAO 207 Language, Meaning, Morality, and Community: ANDREW TSZ WAN HUNG 217 A Philosophical Note on Charles Taylor’s Phenomenology of Language BOOK REVIEWS Vern S. Poythress, Redeeming Philosophy: MICHAEL T. MCFALL 231 A God-Centered Approach to the Big Questions Andrew Ter Ern Loke, PAUL COPAN 234 A Kryptic Model of the Incarnation Michael Augros, Who Designed the Designer? LOGAN PAUL GAGE 238 A Rediscovered Path to God’s Existence Stephen Backhouse, Kierkegaard: A Single Life KIRK R.
  • Gregory Eugene Ganssle

    Gregory Eugene Ganssle

    GREGORY EUGENE GANSSLE Department of Philosophy Talbot School of Theology, Biola University 13800 Biola Ave. La Mirada, CA 90639 [email protected] cell 203-605-3491 CURRENT POSITION 2015- Professor of Philosophy, Talbot Department of Philosophy, Biola University 1995-2014 Senior Fellow, Rivendell Institute www.rivendellinstitute.org Occasional lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Yale University EDUCATION Ph.D. in Philosophy, Syracuse University, 1995. Dissertation: "Atemporality and the Mode of Divine Knowledge." Advisor: William P. Alston - winner of a 1994-1995 Doctoral Prize from Syracuse University M.A. in Philosophy, University of Rhode Island, May 1990. Thesis: "The Development of Augustine's View of the Freedom of the Will from Conversion to the Confessions." Advisor: Donald J. Zeyl B.S. in Secondary Education: Biology, University of Maryland, 1978. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics, History of Philosophy AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS Christian Theology and the Modern Philosophers edited with Benjamin H. Arbour Zondervan, forthcoming. Our Deepest Desires: How the Christian Story Fulfills Human Aspiration Downers Grove: Inter Varsity Press, 2017 A Reasonable God: Engaging the New Face of Atheism, Waco: Baylor University Press, 2009 Thinking About God: First Steps in Philosophy, Downers Grove: Inter Varsity Press, 2004. (Seventh Printing, 2016). God and Time: Essays on the Divine Nature, edited with David M. Woodruff, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. God and Time: Four Views, edited. Downers Grove, IL: Inter Varsity Press, 2001. (Eleventh printing, 2013) published in UK: Paternoster Press, 2002. CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS “Nietzsche,” in Christian Theology and the Modern Philosophers, ed., Benjamin H.
  • Pauline Arguments for God's Existence

    Pauline Arguments for God's Existence

    PHILOSOPHIA CHRISTI VOL. 20, NO. 1 © 2018 Pauline Arguments for God’s Existence DANIEL A. BONEVAC Department of Philosophy University of Texas–Austin [email protected] When Paul went to Athens in 51 AD, he was bringing the gospel to the philosophical center of the ancient world. To be sure, this was no lon- ger classical Athens at its height, the Athens of Socrates and Plato, Solon and Democritus, Sophocles and Euripides. The Romans had sacked it more than a century before. But it remained a prominent university town. Affluent Romans still sent their sons—Cicero, Horace, Nero, and Hadrian, among many others—to Athens to be educated. Only Alexandria could claim to be an intellectual competitor. It did not take long for Paul to encounter philosophers in Athens. In what Hans Conzelmann and J. A. Fitzmyer describe as the “most important epi- sode” in Paul’s second missionary journey, and Martin Dibellius calls “the climax of the book” of Acts, Paul speaks to a group of philosophers on the Areopagus, also known as Mars Hill.1 His address may be the first exercise in natural theology in Christian history. If Paul, “at the height of his powers,” was advancing a philosophical argument, he was doing so under some compulsion.2 Paul stood accused of having preached foreign gods without permission. He had arrived in Athens and had begun preaching at the synagogue and in the agora without a permit. Some who heard him brought him to the Areopagus—Luke’s account is un- clear about whether they were arresting Paul, detaining him for questioning, or issuing a strong request—and asked him to explain his new teaching.
  • Philosophy  New Faculty in the Department

    Philosophy  New Faculty in the Department

    Fall 2019 Student news Faculty news New courses Philosophy New faculty in the Department Philosophy medals and awards Ethics in China @X WHAT’S NEW IN THE DEPARTMENT We are back in the Tower! 2018‐19 was an interesting and The breadth and range of study and research – by busy year in Philosophy @ StFX. The move into and out of students and by faculty – in Philosophy at StFX is Coady‐MacNeil and, then, in and out of Lane Hall, a variety remarkable. The quality of teaching and research has been of public lectures and debates, hosting the Atlantic Region long recognised. Dr. Baldner and Dr Groarke have received Philosophers Association meeting, book launches and the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and Dr. research days – it’s hard to believe that so much happened William Sweet its President’s Research Award, Outreach in just a year! 2019‐20 promises to be an equally Award, and University Research Award. Inside this interesting year, as well. Newsletter, you’ll see further examples of why students Dr. Michael Szlachta, is joining the Department of from all disciplines are attracted to taking Philosophy @ X. Philosophy this fall. He comes from the University of Toronto, where he completed his PhD in 2019. (Read more PHILOSOPHY AWARD WINNERS AND about Dr. Szlachta on page 3.) MEDALISTS 2019 In the 2019‐20 academic year, the Department will be offering two new honours seminars: In PHIL 461, ‘Aquinas on Nature and Metaphysics,’ Dr Steve Baldner will focus on key texts of Thomas Aquinas concerning the principles of natural beings (e.g., form and matter), metaphysical principles (e.g., being, essence, and God), and epistemology.
  • Philosophy Culture and Pluralism

    Philosophy Culture and Pluralism

    PHILOSOPHY CULTURE AND PLURALISM Edited by William Sweet Edited by PHILOSOPHY, CULTURE, AND PLURALISM William Sweet The themes of culture and pluralism have become increasingly im- portant in philosophical discussion, but many questions concerning pluralism and culture — the idea of culture, what is presupposed and what is at stake when different ethnic or social or religious groups attempt to promote their cultures, and the implications of this for the nature and practice of philosophy — are only rarely engaged by philosophers. To investigate these issues and related themes in the history of philosophy, in social and political philosophy, and in the philosophy of culture, the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association organized a two-day internatio- nal symposium at the Université Laval in Québec City on “Philosophy, Culture, and Pluralism / Philosophie, culture, pluralisme.” Several of the papers that appear in this volume were originally presented at that symposium; others were specially invited for this collection. These essays, which bring together the work of scholars from various parts of Canada, from the United States, and from western Europe, Asia, and Africa, allow their authors to draw on their distinctive experience and interests — but the experience of pluralism, culture, and multiculturalism in one country or part of the world clearly bears on others. Scholars in literary theory, history, sociology, and politics have long recognised this, and have been the principal participants in the discussion of issues concerning culture and pluralism. While this vo- lume also includes cultural theorists, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists, most of the contributors are philosophers, and so this volume shows how philosophers see their contribution to a topic that is of international concern.