Publications in Chronological Order
Updated Sept 1, 2022
Forthcoming. Compañero de la Filosofía Contemporánea de la Religión (Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Religion), co-edited with Carlo Rossi. To be published by Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Forthcoming. Antología de Filosofía Contemporánea de la Religión (Anthology of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion), co-edited with Carlo Rossi. To be published by Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Forthcoming. “Types of Tropes: Modifiers and Modules”, in the Routledge Handbook on Properties, edited by Anna-Sofia Maurin and Anthony Fisher (Routledge).
Forthcoming. “C.S. Lewis’s Moral Argument”, in An Anthology on the Moral Argument, edited by David Baggett and John Hare (Oxford University Press).
2022. “Theistic Conferralism: Consolidating Divine Sustenance and Trope Theory”, in Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation, edited by Greg Ganssle (Routledge, 2022), 233-250.
2022. “Hidden Mickeys and the Hiddenness of God” (with Timothy Pickavance) revised and selected for inclusion in the 2nd (revised and expanded) edition of Introducing Philosophy through Pop Culture, edited by William Irwin and David Kyle Johnson. Blackwell Publishers.
2021. “Playing the Hobbes Game at Philosophy Camp”, in Philosophy Camps for Youth: Everything You Wanted to Know about Starting, Organizing, and Running a Philosophy Camp, edited by Claire Elise Katz. Rowman & Littlefield, 121-126.
2020. “La Bundle Theory y el Desafío del Carácter Denso” [Bundle Theory and the Challenge of Thick-Character], translated into Spanish by Carlo Rossi, Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso 16, 111-136.
2019. “Hidden Mickeys and the Hiddenness of God” (with Timothy Pickavance) in Disney and Philosophy: Truth, Trust, and a Little Bit of Pixie Dust, Blackwell Publishers 2019, edited by Richard Davis, 35-44.
2017. “Resting on Your Laurels: Deserting Desert in Paradise?” (with Brian Pocock Boeninger) in Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven, edited by R. Byerly and E. Silverman, Oxford University Press, 277-307.
2017. “Acerca de ‘Particularizar una Propiedad’: Tropos Como Modificadores y Tropos Como Módulos” (translated into Spanish by Ezequiel Zerbudis) in Poderes Causales, Tropos, y Otras Criaturas Extrañas: Ensayos de Metafísica Analítica, edited by Ezequiel Zerbudis. (Blatt & Ríos).
2016. “Tropes as Character-Grounders", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94(3), 499-515.
2016. "Is it Possible to Care for Ecosystems? Policy Paralysis and Ecosystem Management" (with Jonathan Newman) in Ethics, Policy & Environment 19 (2), 170-182.
2016. “Toward Intellectually Virtuous Discourse: Two Vicious Fallacies and the Virtues that Inhibit Them” (with Nathan King) in Intellectual Virtues and Education: Essays In Applied Virtue Epistemology, edited by Jason Baehr, Routledge, 203-220.
2015. “Two Ways to Particularize a Property", Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1(4), 635-652.
2015. “Tropes as Divine Acts: The Nature of Creaturely Properties in a World Sustained by God”, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7(3), 105-30.
2015. “Is Trope Theory a Divided House?” in The Problem of Universals in Contemporary Philosophy, edited by Michael Loux and Gabriele Galluzzo, Cambridge University Press. An earlier draft was titled "Moderate Nominalism: Tropes vs. Tropers”.
2015. "Can a Case for Naturalism be Naturalized?", Aporía - Revista Internacional de Investigaciones Filosóficas, (10), 4-11.
2015. “Trope” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 3rd Edition, edited by Robert Audi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2015. “Food Ethics” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 3rd Edition, edited by Robert Audi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2015. “Philosophical Idling and Philosophical Relativity,” Ratio, 28(1), 51-64.
2014. “La caja negra de la teoría del haz: desafíos explicativos para la teoría de la sustancia como haz de propiedades” (translated by Ezequiel Zerbudis) Quaderns de Filosofia 1(2), 55-72. [This is a Spanish translation of my 2014 article in Acta Analytica, “Bundle Theory's Black Box”.]
2014. “Towards a Just Solar Radiation Management Compensation System: A Defense of the Polluter Pays Principle,” Ethics, Policy & Environment 17(2), 178-182.
2014. “Descartes’s Independence Conception of Substance and His Separability Argument for Substance Dualism,” Journal of Philosophical Research 39, 165-190.
2014. “Bare Particulars and Constituent Ontology,” Acta Analytica, 29(2), 149-159.
2014. “Tropes and Dependency Profiles: Problems for the Nuclear Theory of Substance,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 51(2), 167-76.
2014. “Closing in on Causal Closure,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 21(1-2), 96-109.
2014. “Bundle Theory’s Black Box: Gap Challenges for the Bundle Theory of Substance,” Philosophia, 42(1), 115-26.
2013. “Is God’s Benevolence Impartial?,” Southwest Philosophy Review, 29(1), 23-30.
2013. “Platonism and the Haunted Universe” in Loving God with Your Mind: Essays in Honor of J. P. Moreland, edited by Paul M. Gould and Richard Brian Davis. Moody Publishers.
2013. “Getting Our Minds Out of the Gutter: Fallacies that Foul Our Discourse (and Virtues that Clean it Up)” (with Nathan King) in Virtues in Action: New Essays in Applied Virtue Theory, edited by Michael W. Austin. Palgrave Macmillan.
2009. Is Goodness Without God Good Enough? A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethics, edited by Robert K. Garcia and Nathan L. King. Rowman & Littlefield.
2009. “Introduction” (with Nathan King) in Is Goodness Without God Good Enough? A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethics, edited by Robert K. Garcia and Nathan L. King. Rowman & Littlefield.
2009. Nominalist Constituent Ontologies: a Development and Critique. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Notre Dame.
2002. “Artificial Intelligence and Personhood” in Cutting Edge Bioethics: A Christian Exploration of Technology and Trends, edited by John Kilner, Christopher Hook, and Diane Uustal. Eerdmans.
2000. “Minds Sans Miracles: Colin McGinn's Naturalized Mysterianism,” Philosophia Christi, 2(2), 227-242.
2000. “Apologizing to the Postmodernist” Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 12(1/2), 1-19.