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Is Penal Substitution Incoherent?: An Examination Of Mark Murphy's Criticisms
Introduction In setting the stage for his own revisionary atonement theory, Mark Murphy criticizes the traditional Reformation theory of penal substitution as being conceptually incoherent. Our interest here is not in Murphy’s theory of the atonement of...
Bergson Was Right about Relativity (well, partly)!
Introduction The meteoric fall of Henri Bergson from the philosophical pantheon of the twentieth century was doubtless due in part to his misguided critique, or rather misunderstanding, of Albert Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity.[1] Convinced of ...
Necessary Beings by Bob Hale
Bob Hale undertakes to provide an account of the ontological foundations of modality with the technical rigor, thoroughness, and clarity characteristic of his work. While Hale takes modality to be fundamental and irreducible, still he thinks that a good ...
Review: Natur und Zahl: Die Mathematisierbarkeit der Welt by Bernulf Kanitscheider
The title of Bernulf Kanitscheider’s Natur und Zahl has an even better ring in English: Nature and Number. The book is a wide-ranging discussion of the mathematical nature of the physical world. It takes the form of a sort of perambulat...
Absolute creationism and divine conceptualism: A call for conceptual clarity
I have elsewhere drawn attention to a terminological ambiguity with respect to absolute creationism and theistic activism which threatens to obscure the distinction between these two positions in contemporary discussions of Platonism and God’s relation t...
"Absolute Creation" And "Theistic Activism": A Plea For Terminological Uniformity
The want of terminological uniformity in philosophical discussion can lead to conceptual confusion and the conflation of views which need to be kept distinct. The current discussion of the ontology of abstract objects and God’s relation to them pro...
God and the Platonic Host
Central to classical theism is the conception of God as the sole ultimate reality, the Creator of all things apart from Himself. This doctrine receives its most significant challenge from Platonism, the view that there are uncreated abstract objects, suc...
Review: An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics: Mathematics as the Science of Quantity and Structure
My interest as a philosopher of religion in Franklin’s book arises out of my quest for a plausible alternative to a Platonist account of mathematical objects, one that, unlike Platonism, will be compatible with God’s being the sole ultimate reality...
Response To Bridges And van Inwagen
I take it that the first 5/6 of van Inwagen’s paper targets Bridges’ so-called “moderate realism,” while the final sixth is directed at my theological critique of Platonic realism. Since I think that van Inwagen has still not seri...
God and Abstract Objects
Central to classical theism is the conception of God as the sole ultimate reality, the creator of all things apart from Himself. Such a doctrine is rooted in Hebrew-Christian Scripture. To select but one text, in the prologue of the Gospel of John,...