Felipe Leon
Department of Philosophy
El Camino College
Torrance, CA
fleon [at] elcamino [dot] edu
I am Professor of Philosophy at El Camino College in Torrance, CA. I work on issues in epistemology (esp. the epistemology of modality), metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my family and surfing at nearby Redondo Beach. Click here for my CV.
Books
Is God the Best Explanation of Things? A Dialogue (with Joshua Rasmussen). Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Modal Epistemology After Rationalism (co-edited with Bob Fischer). Springer, 2017.
Articles, Chapters, and Reviews
"Divine Hiddenness and De Jure Objections to Theism: You Can Have Both" (with Scott Hill), Philosophy & Theology, forthcoming.
"The Problem of Creation Ex Nihilo: A New Argument Against Classical Theism", in Miroslaw Szatkowski, ed. Ontology of Divinity. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. (Final)
"Review of James P. Sterba, Is a Good God Logically Possible?" Philosophia, online first, January 31, 2020. DOI 10.1007/s11406-020-00177-7. (Final)
"Causation and Sufficient Reason: Atheism", in Joseph W. Koterski and Graham Oppy, eds. Theism and Atheism: Opposing Arguments in Philosophy, Macmillan, 2019.
"A Priori: Atheism", in Joseph W. Koterski and Graham Oppy (eds.). Theism and Atheism: Opposing Arguments in Philosophy, Macmillan, 2019.
"From Modal Skepticism to Modal Empiricism", in B. Fischer & F. Leon, eds., Modal Epistemology After Rationalism. Synthese Library. Dordrecht: Springer, 2017. (Final)
"The Modal Knowno Problem" (with Bob Fischer), Southwest Philosophy Review 32:1 (2016), 225-232. (Final)
"Moreland on the Impossibility of Traversing the Infinite: A Critique", Philo 14:1 (2011), 32-42. (Final)
"Why Frankfurt-Examples Don't Need to Succeed to Succeed" (with Neal Tognazzini), Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 80:3 (2010), 551-565. (Final)
In Progress (Email me for a copy. Comments welcome!)
"A Dilemma for Ambitious Modal Epistemology".
Book project: Beyond the Problem of Evil (tentative title)
Book project: Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for Atheism (tentative title).
Book project: Modal Skepticism and Natural Theology (tentative title).