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Essays on Discourse by and about the Divine
(2016-12-16)
Chapter One
Divine Predication, Direct Reference, and the Attributes of Classical Theism
The Church’s affirmation of statements predicating certain positive attributes to God is central to Christian doctrine. However, ...
Trust: On Acts and Attitudes of Trust
(2016-08)
Trust comes in many forms. Trust is, at the very least, both an act and a set of attitudes. In this dissertation, I motivate the distinction between acts and attitudes of trust and offer partial accounts of each. Acts of ...
Skeptical Theism and Epistemic Propriety
(2016-05)
Contemporary proponents of the problem of evil argue that evil is evidence, even strong evidence, against the existence of God. Next, these so-called atheologians claim that having such evidence against God’s existence ...
Friendship and the Cultivation of Virtue
(2016-05-13)
Most theories about the cultivation of virtue fall under the general umbrella of the role model approach, according to which virtue is acquired by emulating role models, and where those role models are usually conceived ...
Waging Peace: A Defense of Interpersonal Pacifism
(2016-12-16)
I argue for a universal, absolutist form of pacifism. In chapter 1, I note the various ways people have used and abused the terms “pacifism” and “violence,” and I argue that while “violence” should not be construed as ...
Emotions, Reasons, and Rationality
(2016)
Intuitively, emotion/judgment conflicts are irrational because they are disruptive. They create disturbances and divisions in our generally well-ordered and cohesive selves. When you fear the spider, even though you judge ...