Felipe Leon

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 surfing at nearby Redondo Beach. Click here for my CV.

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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).

Dissertation

Armchair Knowledge and Modal Skepticism: A Rapprochement