Browsing Davis, Richard B. by Author "Department of Philosophy"

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    • Are Bare Particulars Constituents? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (SpringerDordrecht, Netherlands, 2013)
      In this article I examine an as yet unexplored aspect of J.P. Moreland’s defense of so-called bare particularism — the ontological theory according to which ordinary concrete particulars (e.g., Socrates) contain bare ...

    • The Brave New Particularism 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (St. Louis University. College of Philosophy and LettersSt. Louis, MO, 2004-05)

    • Can There Be An "Orthodox" Postmodern Theology? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Evangelical Theological SocietyScottsdale, AZ, 2002)

    • Counterpossibles and the ‘Terrible’ Divine Command Deity 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (Cambridge University PressCambridge, UK, 2015)
      In a series of articles in this journal, Wes Morriston has launched what can only be considered a full-scale assault on the divine command theory (DCT) of morality. According to Morriston, proponents of this theory are ...

    • Evil and Agent-Causal Theism 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Bloomsbury AcademicLondon, UK, 2019)

    • God and Counterpossibles 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Cambridge University PressCambridge, UK, 2006)
      In this paper I critically examine Brian Leftow’s attempt to construct a theistic semantics for counterpossibles, one that can be used to make sense of the fact that propositions, which exist necessarily, nevertheless ...

    • God and the Platonic Horde: A Defense of Limited Conceptualism 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Evangelical Philosophical Society in cooperation with Biola UniversityLa Mirada, Calif., 2011)
      In this paper I shall argue two things. First, it is plausible to think that Conceptualism holds with respect to propositions;; in any event, it does a much better job than its closest competitors (Platonism and Nominalism) ...

    • Haecceities, Individuation and the Trinity: A Reply to Keith Yandell 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Cambridge University PressCambridge, UK, 2002-06)
      In this paper I reply to Keith Yandell’s recent charge that Anselmian theists cannot also be Trinitarians. Yandell’s case turns on the contention that it is impossible to individuate Trinitarian members, if they exist ...

    • How to Individuate Universals—Or Not 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Kluwer Academic PublishersDordrecht, Netherlands, 2013)
      In a recent article in this journal, J. P. Moreland (2013) extends his theory of individuation to include universals. In this note, I show how Moreland’s novel proposal leads to the unwanted conclusion that every concrete ...

    • Is Socrates a Predicate? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (De GruyterBerlin, Germany, 2006)
      In his Moderate Realism and Its Logic (Yale, 1996), Donald Mertz argues that the traditional ontology of nonpredicable substances and predicable universals is beset by “intractable problems,” “harbors an insidious error,” ...

    • James Fodor’s Christian Theory of Truth: Is It Christian? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (WileyNew York, 2000)

    • Layman’s Lapse: On an Incomplete Moral Argument for Theism 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (Center for InquiryAmherst, NY, 2013)
      C. Stephen Layman contends that an argument supporting theism over naturalism can be constructed based on three defensible, non–question-begging premises about the moral order. Previous critics of Layman’s argument have ...

    • The Metaphysics of Theism and Modality 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Peter Lang PublisherNew York, 2001)

    • Oppy and Modal Theistic Proofs 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Evangelical Philosophical Society in cooperation with Biola UniversityLa Mirada, Calif., 2009)
      I argue that Graham Oppy’s attempt to redefend his charge that all modal theistic arguments “must be question-begging” is unsuccessful. Oppy’s attempt to show that theism and modal concretism are compatible is not only ...

    • Plantinga’s Defence and His Theodicy are Incompatible 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (RoutledgeNew York, 2018)

    • A Puzzle for Particulars? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Brown, David S. (Springer[S.l.], 2008)

    • Was C.S. Lewis a Rational Determinist? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Edinburgh University PressEdinburgh, 2022-10)
      In his recently published book C. S. Lewis (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), Stewart Goetz argues that C.S. Lewis endorsed a form of rational determinism, according to which we are causally determined to draw the conclusions we do. ...