Davis, Richard B.: Recent submissions

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    • Where the Bootstrapping Really Lives 

      Gould, Paul M., 1971-; Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Fordham University PressNew York, 2017-12)
      Modified Theistic Activism is the view that abstract objects not essentially possessed by God fall under God’s creative activity in one way or another. Michelle Panchuk has argued that this position succumbs to the ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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) ...

    • Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser 

      Irwin, William (Editor); Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Editor); Tyndale University College & Seminary; Department of Philosophy (Davis); Tyndale University, J. William Horsey Library, 3377 Bayview Ave., Toronto, ON, M2M 3S4, Canada. Contact: repository@tyndale.ca (John WileyHoboken, N.J., 2010)

    • 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 ...

    • The Brave New Particularism 

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

    • 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 ...

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

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

    • 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,” ...

    • 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 ...

    • Plantinga’s Defence and His Theodicy are Incompatible 

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

    • 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 ...

    • 24 and Philosophy: The World According to Jack 

      Weed, Jennifer Hart (Editor); Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Editor); Weed, Ronald L. (Editor); Tyndale University College & Seminary (Davis); Department of Philosophy (Davis); Tyndale University, J. William Horsey Library, 3377 Bayview Ave., Toronto, ON, M2M 3S4, Canada. Contact: repository@tyndale.ca (Blackwell PublishingMalden, Mass., 2007)

    • The Metaphysics of Theism and Modality 

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

    • 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. ...

    • Against a Postmodern Pentecostal Epistemology 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (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 ...

    • On Jesus, Derrida, and Dawkins: Rejoinder to Joshua Harris 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (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. ...

    • Modified Theistic Activism 

      Gould, Paul M., 1971-; Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (BloomsburyNew York, 2014)

    • What Place, Then, for Rational Apologetics? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (Moody PublishingChicago, IL, 2014)