Publications: Journals

"Kuhn's Epistemology: A Paradigm Afloat," Bulletin of the Evangelical Philosophical Society 4 (1981): 33-60.

"The Rationality of Belief in Inerrancy," Trinity Journal NS 7 (Spring, 1986): 75-86.

"Foundationalism and Coherentism: A Comparison," Bulletin of the Evangelical Philosophical Society 9 (1986): 21-30.

Review of Philosophy of Religion by C. Stephen Evans in The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 29 (September, 1986): 369-71.

"The Scientific Realism Debate and the Role of Philosophy in Integration," Bulletin of the Evangelical Philosophical Society 10 (1987): 38-49.

"James Rachels and the Active Euthanasia Debate," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 31 (March 1988): 81-90. [This is reprinted in Francis Beckwith, ed., Do The Right Thing (Boston: Jones & Bartlett, 1996), pp. 239-46; David K. Clark, Robert V. Rakestraw, eds., Readings in Christian Ethics Vol. II: Issues and Applications (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996), pp. 102-108.]

Review of War: A Call to the Innerland by Eberhard Arnold, Nuclear Arms by Myron Augsburger and Dean Curry, Facing the Nuclear Heresy by G. Clarke Chapman in The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 31 (June 1988): 252-55.

"An Enduring Self: The Achilles Heel of Process Philosophy," Process Studies 17 (Fall 1988): 193-99.

"Reflections on Meaning in Life Without God," Trinity Journal NS 9 (Spring, 1988): 3-18.

"The Emergent Property View of the Self and the Bundle Theory: A Development without Substance," Bulletin of the Evangelical Philosophical Society 11 (1988): 66-81.

"Rawls and the Kantian Interpretation," Simon Greenleaf Law Review 8 (1989): 25-55.

Review of Self, God, and Immortality by Eugene Fontinell, in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 32 (June 1989): 244-45.

"Was Husserl a Nominalist?" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (June 1989): 661-74.

Review Article on The End of Life by James Rachels, The Thomist 53 (October 1989): 714-22.

"Keith Campbell and the Trope View of Predication," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 67 (December 1989): 379-93.

Review of Self, God, and Immortality by Eugene Fontinell, in the International Philosophical Quarterly 29 (December 1989): 480-83.

"Nominalism And Abstract Reference," American Philosophical Quarterly 27 (October 1990): 325-34.

"Suicide: Issues and Options," Bibliotheca Sacra 148 (April-June 1991): 214-30. [Reprinted in Vital Contemporary Issues, ed. by Roy B. Zuck (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1994; and in Suicide and the Christian Community: An Ethical Dilemma, ed. by Timothy J. Demy, Gary P. Stewart (Grand Rapids: Kregal, 1997), pp. 183-197.]

"Issues in Infanticide," Criswell Theological Review 5 (Spring, 1991): 203-220.

"How to Be a Nominalist in Realist Clothing," Grazer Philosophische Studien 39 (Summer, 1991): 75-101.

Review of The Existence of the World: An Introduction to Ontology by Reinhardt Grossmann, in Mind 102 (July, 1993): 407-410.

"Scientific Creationism, Science, and Conceptual Problems," Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 46 (March, 1994): 2-13.

"Response to Bube and Meyer," Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 46 (March, 1994): 22-25.

"Does Science Presuppose Methodological Naturalism?" Proceedings of the Wheaton Theology Conference 2 (1994).

"Humanness, Personhood, and the Right to Die," Faith and Philosophy 12 (January 1995): 95-112. [This article received "Honorable Mention" for the 1996 Templeton Award in Exemplary Papers in Humility Theology (in the category of Religion and the Medical Sciences).]

"Theistic Science and the Christian Scholar: A Response to Giberson," Christian Scholar’s Review 24 (May 1995): 472-78.

"Aquinas vs. Descartes and Locke on the Human Person and End-of-Life Ethics," [with Stan Wallace] International Philosophical Quarterly 35 (September 1995): 319-30.

"Is the Human Person a Substance or Property-Thing?" [with John Mitchell] Ethics & Medicine 11 (1995): 50-55.

"Issues and Options in Exemplification," American Philosophical Quarterly 33 (April, 1996): 133-47.

"Philosophical Apologetics, the Church, and Contemporary Culture," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 39 (March 1996): 123-40.

"Complementarity, Agency Theory, and the God of the Gaps," Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 49 (March 1997): 2-14.

"Response to Krause," Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 49 ( June 1997): 139.

"A Critique of Campbell’s Refurbished Nominalism," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 35 (Summer 1997): 225-46.

"Ethical Egoism and Biblical Self-Interest," The Westminster Theological Journal 59 (Fall 1997): 257-268.

"Agent Causation and the Craig/Grünbaum Debate about Theistic Explanation of the Initial Singularity," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 71 (Autumn 1997): 539-554..

"Restoring the Substance to the Soul of Psychology," Journal of Psychology and Theology 26 (March, 1998): 29-43.

"Searle’s Biological Naturalism and the Argument from Consciousness," Faith and Philosophy 15 (January, 1998): 68-91.

"Should a Naturalist Be a Supervenient Physicalist?" Metaphilosophy 29 (January/April 1998): 35-57.

"Naturalism and Libertarian Agency," Philosophy and Theology 10 (1997): 351-381.

"Locke’s Parity Thesis about Thinking Matter: A Response to Williams," Religious Studies 34 (September 1998): 253-259.

"A Philosophical Examination of Hugh Ross’s Natural Theology," Philosophia Christi 21 (Summer 1998): 33-39.

"Theories of Individuation: A Reconsideration of Bare Particulars," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 79 (1998): 251-263.

"Madell’s Rejection of a Substantial, Immaterial Self," Philosophia Christi NS 1 (Summer 1999): 111-114.

"Review of Philosophy of Mind" by Jaegwon Kim in Philosophia Christi NS 1 (Summer 1999): 133-136..

"Christian Materialism and the Parity Thesis Revisited," International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (forthcoming September 1999).

"Post Modernism and the Intelligent Design Movement," Philosophia Christi NS 1 (forthcoming Winter 1999).

"Should a Scientific Naturalist Eschew Libertarian Agency?" [out for review].

"Issues and Options in Individuation," [out for review].

I have also served as a referee for Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Christian Scholar's Review, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Psychology and Theology, Journal of Philosophical Research, and for various paper submissions for conferences with the Society of Christian Philosophers, and I have served as a textbook consultant for Baker, Word, Basil Blackwell, Crossway, InterVarsity, and Zondervan publishers.



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