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ARTICLES

52. "It May Well Be Hope: Replies to Dunnington, Vainio, Anderson, and Austin" Sapientia Carl F.J. Henry Center for Theological Understanding book symposium on Fallenness and Flourishing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021): Sep 2022.

51. "Iblis, Abraham, and Teleological Suspensions" The Monist Vol. 104, No. 3, (2021): 281-299.

50. "I, Player in a Demon Tale" Philosophy through Science Fiction Stories Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt, and Eric Schwitzgebel, eds. (London: Bloomsbury, 2021): 159-173.

49. "Felix Culpa!" Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments Trent Dougherty and Jerry Walls, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018): 277-289.

48. "Science, Skepticism, Scripture, and Supertasks: Replies to Torrance, Deng, Madueme, Goldschmidt and Lebens" Journal of Analytic Theology Vol. 5, No. 1, (2017): 637-659.

47. "The Resurrection and Hypertime" Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven T. Ryan Byerly and Eric Silverman, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017): 263-273.

46. "Swinburne's Aesthetic Appeal" Reason and Faith: Themes from Richard Swinburne's Philosophy of Religion Michael Bergmann and Jeffrey Brower, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016): 64-82.

45. "Non-Naturalistic Metaphysics" The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism Kelly James Clark, ed. (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016): 168-181.

44. "The Father of Lies?" Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Jonathan Kvanvig, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014): 147-166.

43. "Transhypertime Identity" Mereology and Location Shieva Kleinschmidt, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014): 135-155.

42. "Best Possible World Theodicy" The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil Daniel Howard-Snyder and Justin McBrayer, eds. (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013): 236-250.

41. "Reflections on the Metaphysics of Sculpture" Art & Abstract Objects Christy Mag Uidhir, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012): 223-241.

40. "The Morphing Block and Diachronic Personal Identity" Personal Identity: Complex or Simple? Georg Gasser and Matthias Stefan, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012): 236-248.

39. "Hyperspace and Christianity" Philosophy of Religion – An Anthology 6th edition, Louis P. Pojman and Michael C. Rea, eds. (Belmont: Wadsworth, 2012): 446-459.

38. "A Metaphysical Mix: Morphing, Mal, and Mining" Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 25: Metaphysics John Hawthorne and Dean Zimmerman, eds. (Cambridge: Blackwell, 2011): 223-239.

37. "Philosophical Contributions to the Dialogue between Science and Religion" Euresis Journal Vol. 1, No. 1, (2011): 59-75.

36. "An Essay on Eden" Faith and Philosophy Vol. 27, No. 3, (2010): 273-286.

35. "Multiple Location and Single Location Resurrection" How Do We Survive Our Death? Personal Identity and Resurrection Georg Gasser, ed. (Ashgate Publishing, 2010): 87-101.

"Vielfach und Einfach Verortete Auferstehung" German trans. by Georg Maximilian Knauer Auferstehung des Leibes - Unsterblichkeit der Seele (Bodily Resurrection - Immortality of the Soul) Godehard Brüntrup, Maria Schwartz, and Matthias Rugel, eds. (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 2010): 227-243.

34. "van Inwagen on Time Travel and Changing the Past" (with Ryan Wasserman) Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Dean Zimmerman, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009): 41-49.

33. "Fission, Freedom, and the Fall" Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Jonathan Kvanvig, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009): 58-79.

32. "Omnipresence" The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology Thomas P. Flint and Michael C. Rea, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009): 199-216.

"Omnipresence" received the 2009 Excellence in Philosophy of Religion Prize from the St Thomas Philosophy of Religion Project and the John Templeton Foundation .

31. "Précis of The Metaphysics of Hyperspace" and "Reply to Parsons, Reply to Heller, and Reply to Rea" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. 76, No. 2, (2008): 422-426, 452-470.

30. "The Many Problematic Solutions to the Problem of the Many" Metaphysics: Critical Concepts in Philosophy Vol. 5, Michael C. Rea, ed. (Routledge, 2008): 87-114.

29. "Lesser Kinds Quartet" The Monist Vol. 90, No. 3, (2007): 333-348.

28. "Safety" Analysis Vol. 67, No. 4, (2007): 299-301.

27. "Simples and Gunk" Philosophy Compass Vol. 2, No. 1, (2007): 291-302.

26. "How To Part Ways Smoothly" Analysis Vol. 67, No. 2, (2007): 156-157. [Decisively refuted by Nicholas Shackel in “Parting Smoothly?” Analysis Vol. 67, No, 4 (2007).]

25. "I am not an Animal!" Persons: Human and Divine Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007): 216-234.

24. "Confining Composition" The Journal of Philosophy Vol. 103, No. 12 (2006): 631-651.

23. "Simple Statues" Philo Vol. 9, No. 1 (2006): 40-46.

22. "Beautiful Evils" Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Dean Zimmerman, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006): 387-396.

21. "Temporally Incongruent Counterparts" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. 68, No. 2, (2004): 337-343.

20. "Four Colors do not Suffice" The American Mathematical Monthly Vol. 110, No. 5, (2003): 417-423.

"Four Colors do not Suffice" is the subject of a brief article by George Musser in the January 2003 issue of Scientific American entitled "Color Madness."

"No basta con cuatro colores," Spanish trans. La Gaceta de la Real Sociedad Matemática Española Vol. 8, No. 2, (2005): 1-8.

19. "Immanent Causality and Diachronic Composition" Philosophical Papers Vol. 32, No. 1, (2003): 15-22.

18. "Alexander's Dicta and Merricks' Dictum" Topoi Vol. 22, No. 2, (2003): 173-182.

17. "The Liberal View of Receptacles" Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 80, No. 4, (2002): 432-439.

16. "Moving Faster than Light" Analysis Vol. 62, No. 3, (2002): 203-205.

15. "Kant's Third Antinomy and Anomalous Monism" Immanuel Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals in Focus Lawrence Pasternack, ed. (London: Routledge, 2002): 234-267.

14. "Touching" Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 15: Metaphysics James E. Tomberlin, ed. (Cambridge: Blackwell, 2001): 119-128.

13. "An Open Question Concerning 2^{2,147,483,647}– 1" Journal of Recreational Mathematics Vol 30, No. 4, (2001): 256-258.

12. "On Constitution and All-Fusions" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 81, No. 3, (2000): 237-245.

11. "Universalism, Four Dimensionalism, and Vagueness" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. 60, No. 3, (2000): 547-560.

10. "Temporal Parts and Moral Personhood" Philosophical Studies Vol. 93, No. 3, (1999): 299-316.

9. "A True, Necessary Falsehood" Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 77, No. 1, (1999): 89-91.

8. "On a New Argument From Actualism to Serious Actualism" Noûs Vol. 31, No. 4, (1997): 520-524.

7. "Brute Facts" Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 75, No. 1, (1997): 77-82.

6. "Kant and Informal Logic" Historical Foundations of Informal Logic Douglas Walton and Alan Brinton, eds. (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 1997): 144-157.

5. "Feinberg on the Criterion of Moral Personhood" Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 13, No. 3, (1996): 311-317.

4. "Collective Responsibility and Moral Vegetarianism" Journal of Social Philosophy Vol. 24, No. 2, (1993): 89-104.

3. "Wille, Willkür, and the Imputability of Immoral Actions" Kant-Studien Vol. 82, No. 2, (1991): 179-196.

2. "The Significance of an Analytic of the Ugly in Kant's Deduction of Pure Judgments of Taste" Kant's Aesthetics Ralf Meerbote and Hud Hudson, eds. (Atascadero: Ridgeview Publishing, 1991): 87-103.

1. "A Response to A.A. Long's 'The Stoics on World-Conflagration and Everlasting Recurrence'" Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 28, No. 1, (1990): 149-158.

VIDEO SCRIPTWRITING

Each of the ten short videos below may be found at www.plantingavideos.com

10. God and Other Minds

9. Reformed Epistemology

8. Is it Rational to be a Christian?

7. Where the Conflict Really Lies

6. The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism

5. The Modal Ontological Argument

4. Human Freedom and Divine Foreknowledge

3. The Free Will Defense

2. Transworld Depravity

1. O Felix Culpa!

EDITED VOLUMES

2. The Monist (Simples and Gunk) Vol. 87, No. 3 (2004).

1. Kant's Aesthetics (with Ralf Meerbote) North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy Vol. 1 (Atascadero: Ridgeview Publishing, 1991).

GUEST EDITING

4. Philosophical Studies (with Daniel Howard-Snyder and Frances Howard-Snyder) Special Issue: Selected Papers From the 2005 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference Vol. 133, No. 1 (2007).

3. Philosophical Studies (with Frances Howard-Snyder and Ned Markosian) Special Issue: Selected Papers From the 2004 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference Vol. 129, No. 1, (2006).

2. Philosophical Studies (with Frances Howard-Snyder and Ned Markosian) Special Issue: Selected Papers From the 2003 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference Vol. 123, No. 1-2, (2005).

1. Philosophical Studies (with Frances Howard-Snyder and Ned Markosian) Special Issue: Selected Papers From the 2002 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference Vol. 114, No. 1-2, (2003).

CRITICAL REVIEWS

3. Review of: Theodore Sider Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001). For: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002.06.02.

2. Review of: Jürgen Habermas Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990). For: The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Vol. 9, No. 1, (1995): 74-77.

1. Review of: Henry E. Allison Kant's Theory of Freedom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). For: Kant-Studien Vol. 82, No. 2, (1991): 219-222.