In recent years, much of the debate within philosophy religion has focused on problem horrendous evils. Horrendous evils constitute a unique class which presumably poses stronger objection to existence omni-God than other classes However, while generally been taken be evidence against God, some philosophers have suggested that it may for God. This article discusses three different kinds theisti...

We know more today about the second, or so-called 'modal', version of St. Anselm's ontological argument than we did when Charles Hartshorne and Norman Malcolm brought it to the attention of philosophers some years ago. But there is still much to be learned. Criticisms of the modal ontological argument focus on its premises, namely (i) the claim that perfection, or maximal greatness, implies nec...

C. Stephen Evans, Mary Healy, and Murray Rae. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003. Pp. xx + 553. $34.99. “Behind” the Text, the fourth volume of the Scripture and Hermeneutics Series, is a product of the Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar (SAHS). According to their website, SAHS “was set up in 1998 to see what could be done to renew interpretation of the Bible as Scripture in the Academy.” SAHS striv...

The Proper Functionist account of warrant – like many other externalist accounts – is vulnerable to certain Gettier-style counterexamples involving accidentally true beliefs. In this paper, I briefly survey the development of the account, noting the way it was altered in response to such counterexamples. I then argue that Alvin Plantinga’s latest amendment to the account is flawed insofar as it...

properties that may or may not be instantiated, while a possible world is a set of abstract states of affairs (or propositions) that may or tnay not obtain (or be true). More precisely, a possible person is a maximal compossible set of properties each of which could be possessed by a single person. The set is compossible in that it admits of the logical possibility of coinstantiation by a singl...

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right! — Jill Ruckelshaus In 1996, the Renal Physician Association (RPA) and American Society of Nephrology (ASN) released a position paper on minimal frequency for direct nephrologist-dialysis patient contact. The discussion leading up to the final position was thorough, scholarly (only limited relevant data), opinionated, and occasionally e...

This is an ambitious book, in two ways. First, it advocates a drastic transformation of contemporary epistemology’s scope and method. Second, it exemplifies a new way of doing epistemology, plumbing the depths of epistemic psychology by subtly characterizing the nature of, and interrelations among, a host of intellectual traits. Part I critiques standard ‘‘analytic’’ epistemology and expounds t...

Infallibilism is the view that a belief cannot be at once warranted and false. In this essay we assess three nonpartisan arguments for infallibilism, arguments that do not depend on a prior commitment to some substantive theory of warrant. Three premises, one from each argument, are most significant: (1) if a belief can be at once warranted and false, then the Gettier Problem cannot be solved; ...