Browsing Davis, Richard B. by Issue Date
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James Fodor’s Christian Theory of Truth: Is It Christian?
(WileyNew York, 2000) -
The Metaphysics of Theism and Modality
(Peter Lang PublisherNew York, 2001) -
Can There Be An "Orthodox" Postmodern Theology?
(Evangelical Theological SocietyScottsdale, AZ, 2002) -
Haecceities, Individuation and the Trinity: A Reply to Keith Yandell
(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 ... -
The Brave New Particularism
(St. Louis University. College of Philosophy and LettersSt. Louis, MO, 2004-05) -
Is Socrates a Predicate?
(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,” ... -
God and Counterpossibles
(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 ... -
24 and Philosophy: The World According to Jack
(Blackwell PublishingMalden, Mass., 2007) -
A Puzzle for Particulars?
(Springer[S.l.], 2008) -
Oppy and Modal Theistic Proofs
(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 ... -
Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser
(John WileyHoboken, N.J., 2010) -
God and the Platonic Horde: A Defense of Limited Conceptualism
(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) ... -
Against a Postmodern Pentecostal Epistemology
(Evangelical Philosophical SocietyCharlottesville, VA, 2013)In this paper we explore the idea that pentecostalism is best supported by conjoining it to a postmodern, narrative epistemology in which everything is a text requiring interpretation. On this view, truth doesn’t consist ... -
Layman’s Lapse: On an Incomplete Moral Argument for Theism
(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 ... -
Are Bare Particulars Constituents?
(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 ... -
How to Individuate Universals—Or Not
(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 ... -
Modified Theistic Activism
(BloomsburyNew York, 2014) -
On Jesus, Derrida, and Dawkins: Rejoinder to Joshua Harris
(Evangelical Philosophical SocietyCharlottesville, VA, 2014)In this paper we respond to three objections raised by Joshua Harris to our article, “Against a Postmodern Pentecostal Epistemology,” in which we express misgivings about the conjunction of Pentecostalism with James K. A. ... -
What Place, Then, for Rational Apologetics?
(Moody PublishingChicago, IL, 2014) -
Counterpossibles and the ‘Terrible’ Divine Command Deity
(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 ...