My Writings
My writings have focused on themes related to direct acquaintance, the epistemology of disagreement, the problem of evil, and other topics like the metaphysics of mind, naturalism, and other topics in epistemology and philosophy of religion. When available, I have provided a copy of my work linked below.
Debating Christian Religious Epistemology
Debating Christian Religious Epistemology: An Introduction to Five Views on the Knowledge of God, edited with Tyler Dalton McNabb (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
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Epistemology
- "Justification by Acquaintance," Synthese 199 (2021): 7555-7573.
- "Hold on Loosely, But Don't Let Go: Evaluating the Evidential Impact of Religious Disagreement," Philosophia Christi 20, no.1 (2018): 253-264. For a special issue on epistemic disagreement.
- "Indirect Realism with a Human Face," Ratio 31, no. 1 (2018): 57-72. [Springer link]
- "What's (not) Wrong with Evidentialism," Global Journal for Classical Theology 13, no. 2 (2016).
- "Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Published 6 January 2013.
- "Bergmann's Dilemma and Internalism's Escape," Acta Analytica 111, no. 3 (2012): 409-423.
- "Defeating the Self-Defeat Argument for Phenomenal Conservatism," Philosophical Studies 152, no. 3: (2011): 347-359.
- "Williamson on the Evidence for Skepticism," Southwest Philosophical Studies 30 (2008): 23-32.
- "In Defense of Classical Foundationalism: A Critical Evaluation of Plantinga's Argument that Classical Foundationalism is Self-Refuting," The South African Journal of Philosophy, 26, no. 3 (2007): 245-251.
Philosophy of Religion
- "Is It Wrong for God to Create Persons? A Reply to Monaghan," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 93 (2023): 227-237.
- "Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Moral Skepticism: Divine Moral Knowledge as Transcendent and Continuous with Human Moral Knowledge," Philosophia Christi 24, no. 2 (2022): 257-269.
- "Positive Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Divine Deception," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 82, no. 1 (2017): 89-99. [Springer link]
- "Berkeleyan Idealism, Christianity, and the Problem of Evil," Philosophia Christi 19, no. 2 (2017): 401-413.
- "On the Epistemological Framework for Skeptical Theism," in Skeptical Theism: New Essays, ed. T. Dougherty and J. McBrayer (Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 32-44.
- "The Heavens are Declaring the Glory of God: Contemporary Teleological Arguments," Review and Expositor 111, no. 3 (2014): 244-258.
- "Natural Theology and the Uses of Argument," co-written with Timothy McGrew, Philosophia Christi 15, no. 2 (2013): 299-309. For a special issue on ramified natural theology.
- "Vindicating a Bayesian Approach to Miracles: A Reply to Jordan Howard Sobel," Philosophia Christi 10, no. 1 (2008): 229-238.
Metaphysics
- "The Self-Defeat of Naturalism: A Critical Comparison of Alvin Plantinga and C. S. Lewis," Christian Scholars Review 44, no. 1 (2014): 9-26.
- "RoboMary, Blue Banana Tricks, and the Metaphysics of Consciousness," Philosophia Christi 15, no. 1 (2013): 119-132. For a special issue on neuroscience and the soul.