McCormick Research

Professor McCormick's CV

Recent research and publications have focused on the philosophy of religion, particularly atheism and the epistemology of atheism.

My book, Atheism and the Case Against Christ argues that the evidence we have warrants skepticism about the resurrection of Jesus, and for general atheism. At Amazon: Atheism and the Case Against Christ

Here's a chapter: The Salem Witch Trials and the Resurrection.

Many of my philosophy of religion ideas are worked out on my atheism blog: Atheism: Proving the Negative.

I wrote a substantial entry on atheism for the the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy here: Atheism at the IEP.

"God Would Not Perform Miracles," in The Case Against Miracles, ed. John Loftus. Hypatia Press, 2019.

“Dead as a Doornail: Empirical Indications of the End,” chapter in The Myth of the Afterlife: Essays on the Case Against Life After Death, eds. Michael Martin and Keith Augustine, McFarland Publishing, 2012.

“The Salem Witch Trials and the Evidence for the Resurrection,” The End of Christianity, ed. John Loftus. Prometheus Press, 2011.

An annotated bibliography of important works on atheism for Oxford Bibliographies Online. Atheism Bibliography.

Some Other Publications:

“Kant's Theory of Mind in the Critique of Pure Reason's Subjective Deduction" Rockefeller Prize Winner for Best Unpublished Essay, Journal of Value Inquiry, 2005; 39 (3)

"Against the Immortality of the Soul," in Death And Anti-Death, Volume 2: Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty Years After Turing. ed. Charles Tandy. Palo Alto, California: Ria University Press, 2004.

“The Paradox of Divine Agency,” in The Impossibility of God, Michael Martin and Rick Monier, eds. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2003.

“Why God Cannot Think: Kant, Omnipresence, and Consciousness,” reprinted in Disproofs for the Existence of God, Michael Martin and Ricki Monier, eds. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2003.

“Questions about Functionalism in Kant’s Philosophy of Mind: Lessons for Cognitive Science,” Journal of Experimental and Theoretic Artificial Intelligence 15, no. 2 (2003): 255-266.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, entry for Dictionary of 19th Century British Philosophers, Thoemmes Press, 2002.

"Is It Wrong to Play Violent Video Games?," Ethics and Information Technology. Volume 3, No. 4, 2001.

Preprint copy of Is It Wrong to Play Violent Video Games?

"Why God Cannot Think: Kant, Omnipresence, and Consciousness," Philo, Vol. 3, Number 1, Spring-Summer 2000.

"Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

My dissertation was on Kant's Theory of Mind.

Chapter 1: Kant's Transcendental Psychology

Chapter 2: The Proof Against Real Connections and Hume's Theory of Mind

Chapter 3: Strawson's Critique of Kant on Transcendental Psychology

Chapter 4: Kant's Subjective Deduction

Other chapters coming soon.

Other Links:

Russell DiSilvestro (Philosophy Dept., CSUS) and I debated the historical case for the resurrection of Jesus at a Sacramento church. Video of the discussion here.

Keith Lowell Jensen, an atheist comedian and host of Atheist Church recently interviewed me for his YouTube channel and website about Jesus and the Salem Witch Trials.

And here at the Capitol Weekly.

And here for the CSUS State Hornet