CURRICULUM
VITAE
MICHAEL
TOOLEY
Education
University
of Toronto, 1959-64.
B.A., 1964.
Princeton University, 1964-67.
Ph.D.,
1968.
Personal
Date
of birth: 17 March
1941
Place of birth: Toronto,
Canada
Married to Sylvia Tooley, with
daughters Sandra and
Suzanne, and granddaughter Sofia, and grandsons Anthony,
Joshua, Donald, and Joseph.
Citizenship: American and Canadian.
President,
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 2010-2011.
Vice
President, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division,
2009-2010.
The
Cecil H. and Ida Green Honors Chair Professor, Texas Christian
University,
Spring, 2010
The John
Dewey Lecture, "A
Philosophical Journey," American Philosophical Association,
Central
Division, Chicago, February, 2009.
College
Professor of Distinction, Arts and Sciences,
University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006-
Faculty
Fellowship. University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006-2007.
Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Research Award,
1998-1999.
JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan.
Awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science, 1999.
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
President, Australasian Association of Philosophy, 1983-1984.
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow, 1966-1967.
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1964-1965.
Current
Position
Distinguished
College
Professor, Emeritus, Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado.
2006-present.
University
of Colorado, Philosophy Department: Professor, 1992–present.
Previous
Positions
Bowling Green State University, Adjunct Professor,
2004-09.
The
Australian National University, Philosophy Program, Research
School of Social
Sciences: Senior
Research Fellow,
1988-92; Senior Fellow, 1992.
University
of Western Australia, Philosophy Department:
Professor, 1983-88; Head of Department, 1985-88.
University
of Miami, Philosophy Department:
Associate Professor, 1981-82; Professor, 1982-83.
Wichita
State University, Philosophy Department:
Visiting Associate Professor, 1980-81.
The University
of Utah, Philosophy Department:
Visiting
Associate Professor, 1977.
The
Australian National University, Philosophy Program, Research
School of Social
Sciences: Research
Fellow, 1974-79;
Senior Research Fellow, 1979-80.
Stanford
University, Philosophy
Department, Assistant Professor, 1967-74.
Professional
Organizations
American
Philosophical Association
(President, 2010-2011)
Australasian Association of Philosophy
(President, 1983-1984)
Australian Academy of the Humanities
Other
Professional Activities
Editorial
Board: Journal of
Controversial Ideas, Philo.
Referee:
American
Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, Bioethics,
British Journal for the
Philosophy of
Science, Dialogue,
Erkenntnis, Ethics, Mind,
Noûs, Philosophical
Studies, Philosophy of
Science, and Synthese.
Referee:
Oxford University
Press.
TEACHING:
Courses
The
main courses that I taught were as follows:
Philosophy
1100: Introduction
to Ethics
Philosophy
3340: Epistemology
Philosophy
4360: Metaphysics
Philosophy
5340: Epistemology
Philosophy
5360: Metaphysics
Philosophy
6340: Seminar in
Epistemology
Philosophy
6380: Seminar in
Causation and Laws of
Nature
Philosophy
6380: Seminar in
Philosophy of Time
TEACHING:
Thesis Supervision
Ph.D. Dissertations
Christian Lee – Thesis: Adding
Goods (2012)
Tyler Hildebrand – Thesis: Empiricism,
Natural Regularity, and Necessity (2011)
Iain Martel – Thesis: Probabilistic
Empiricism: In Defense of a Reichenbachian Theory of Causality
and the
Direction of Time (2000)
M.A. Dissertations
Walter Gorsuch – Thesis: On
Merricks’ Definition of ‘Whole Presence’ and the Alleged
Contradiction that
Arises between Eternalism and Endurantism
(2013)
Jay Geyer – Thesis: Compatibilism,
Intralevelism, and
Bi-Directional Determination (2012)
Undergraduate
Honors Theses
At the undergraduate level, I supervised the
following honors
theses:
Zachary
Rojas (2013) On Effects Preceding their Causes.
Patrick Decker (2010)
A Defense of Qualia. (Patrick was admitted
to the Ph.D. program at
Princeton University.)
Bridgette
Bailie Peterson (2010) Temporal Becoming and
Dynamic Time. (Bailie
completed
her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in
2017 and is now an
assistant professor in philosophy at the University of
Northern Colorado.)
Jack Spencer (2007)
Meta-Laws.
(Jack completed his Ph.D. at
Princeton University in 2013, and is now an associate professor
in philosophy at
M.I.T.)
Heidi
Buetow (2004) Persistence through Time and Change. (Heidi completed
her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in
2014 and is now an associate
professor in philosophy at Manhattan College.)
Alex
Baia (2004) The Non-Contradiction of Tensed Facts:
A Partial Reply to McTaggart.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
My
primary research interests
are in the areas of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of
religion, and
ethics. In metaphysics, my work is concerned with the nature of
time,
causation, and laws of nature. In epistemology, I am interested
in problems
connected with our knowledge of the physical world and other
minds, and in the concept
of logical probability and the classical problem of justifying
induction. In
philosophy of religion, my primary focus is upon the question of
the
rationality or irrationality of belief in the existence of God,
and upon
evidential and moral arguments against Christianity. In ethics,
my research is
concerned with issues in the area of applied ethics, including
abortion, active
euthanasia, cloning, a neo-Lockean personhood account of the
moral of status of
members of our own species, and sexual morality.
Books
- Published
The Problem of Evil, Cambridge Elements
Series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Abortion – Three
Perspectives (Oxford:
Oxford University
Press, 2009) (This
book, which was
co-authored with Professor Alison Jaggar, Professor Philip E.
Devine, and
Associate Professor Emerita Celia Wolf-Devine, is in the
Point/Counterpoint
series edited by James Sterba.)
Knowledge of God
(Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008) (This book, which I
co-authored with
Professor Alvin Plantinga, is in Blackwell's Great Debates in
Philosophy
series.)
La
natura del tempo, (Milano:
McGraw-Hill, 1999).
(This is an Italian translation, by Michele
Visentin, of Time, Tense,
and Causation,
with a new preface and some revisions.)
Analytical
Metaphysics (New York: Garland Publishing,
1999). Edited, five
volumes:
Volume
1: Laws of Nature,
Causation, and
Supervenience
Volume 2: The
Nature of Time
Volume 3: Properties
Volume 4: Particulars,
Actuality, and
Identity
Volume 5: Necessity
and Possibility
Time,
Tense, and Causation, (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1997). Reprinted
in a revised, paperback edition in
2000.
Causation, (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, Readings in
Philosophy Series, 1993). Co-edited
with
Professor Ernest Sosa.
Causation: A Realist Approach, (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1987).
Abortion
and Infanticide, (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1983). Reprinted in a
paperback edition in 1985.
Research
Projects to Be Completed Shortly
Book
A Defense of a Non-Reductionist Approach
to Causation
This book has gone through
several drafts, but what I
hope is the final revision is now with Oxford University Press.
Three reviewers
have submitted reports on it, recommending publication.
Articles
“A
Refutation of Laplacian Rules of Succession”
Laplacian
rules of succession are still widely accepted and were in effect
defended by
Rudolf Carnap in the Appendix of his Logical
Foundations of Probability. I offer three objections to
Laplacian rules,
one that was advanced by C. D, Broad, and by John Maynard Keyes
in his A Treatise on
Probability, while the
other two objections involve thought experiments that show that
Laplacian rules
have deeply counterintuitive implications.
“A Refutation of an Objection
to the Growing Block
View of Time”
Craig Bourne and David
Braddon-Mitchell have both
argued that a ‘growing block’ view of the nature of time cannot
be correct
because it would follow that one could not know that it is now
now. I show that
the argument rests upon an unsound account of the analysis of
tensed
statements, and that, given a sound account, one can know, on a growing block view, that it is now
now.
“A Defense of Perdurantism”
Here I argue that the types
of formulations of
perdurantism that have been advanced, for example, by David
Lewis and Ted
Snider are unsound, and that there is an alternative formulation
of
perdurantism against which modal objections fail.
“On the Impossibility of
Irreducible Powers”
The basic thesis of this
paper is that powers and
disposition cannot be irreducible properties: they must be
analyzed in terms of
categorical properties and causal laws.
Future Research
Projects
Books
The
Justification of Induction
This
book will survey the various attempts that have been made to
show that
induction is justified. After showing that none of those
attempts is
successful, I shall set out equiprobability postulates that
entail an
intuitively acceptable general law of succession, but I shall
also argue that
inductive support for laws of nature can exist if and only if
governing laws of
nature are logically possible.
Abortion:
How to Think about the
Moral Status of Abortion, and to Discuss It with Others
In
recent years it has become painfully clear that very few people
indeed are able
to have friendly and dispassionate discussions with others who
have different
views than they have. This is especially so in the case of ‘hot
button’ issues
such as the moral and appropriate legal status of abortion.
This
shows that virtually all schools, not only in the United States
but in other
countries are failing miserably in educating children. This book
has two main
parts. In the first part, I shall start off by discussing, first
of all, what is
involved in having rational beliefs on any topic, and secondly,
how one must
behave if one is to have discussions with those with whom one
disagrees in a
morally acceptable fashion.
The
second part of the book will have two goals. The first will be
concerned with popular
arguments concerning abortion,
both arguments supporting the view that abortion is either never
morally wrong,
or at least not always morally wrong, and arguments defending
the view that
abortion is always morally wrong. The second part will involve
introducing
readers to crucial arguments that philosophers have set out and
defended, and with
which most readers will not have encountered.
Indirect
Realism and the Philosophy of Perception
The
thesis being defended in this book will be that there are
decisive objections
to all forms of direct realism in the philosophy of perception,
and that there
are very strong arguments in support of, and no plausible
objections to,
indirect realism.
The
Refutation of Skepticism
This
book will build upon the preceding refutation of skepticism
about induction and
argue that given that induction is justified, skepticism about
the existence of
an external, physical world, about the past, and about other
minds can also be
refuted.
A
Philosopher’s Toolkit: Thinking
about Time and Tense
There
are many disaster areas in philosophy - areas where views are
advanced that can
be shown to be untenable. My goal will be to set out crucial
tools for thinking
about philosophical problems in general, and to illustrate the
use of those
tools in thinking about issues in the philosophy of time.
DVDs
Closer to
the Truth – Series 1: Meaning. I was one of
the participants in this
series produced by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, The Kuhn Foundation,
2015.
Is God
Real?
– a debate with William Lane Craig at the University of North
Carolina at
Charlotte, The Southern Evangelical Seminary, 2010.
Internet Discussion
Marquis
& Tooley on Abortion
and Personhood – a
Philosophy TV
discussion with Don
Marquis, November, 2010, http://www.philostv.com/don-marquis-and-michael-tooley
Translations
"Hume e o
problema do mal,” a
translation of “Hume and the Problem of Evil,” in Filosofia
da Religião ,
org. J. Jordan, (São Paulo, Brasil: Paulinas, 2015), pp.
197-229.
“Pisanie
wypracowań Filozofia,” a Polish
translation, by Erica Bergman, of
“Writing Philosophy Essays,” http://lichtprofi.de/blog/pisanie-wypracowan-filozofia,
2012.
"Aborto e
Infanticidio,"
a Portuguese translation of "Abortion and Infanticide," in A Etica do Aborto,
edited by, and
translations done by, Pedro Galvao, Lisbon, Portugal: Dinalivro,
2005, 69-104.
La
natura del tempo, (Milano:
McGraw-Hill, 1999).
(This is an Italian translation, by Michele
Visentin, of Time, Tense,
and Causation,
with a new preface and some revisions.)
A
Japanese translation of "The Moral Status of the Cloning of
Humans,"
in Studien zur
Praktischen Philosophie (Jissentetsugaku-Kenkyu),
22, 1999,
53-97.
"Abtreibung
und
Kindstötung," a German translation of "Abortion and
Infanticide,"
with a new Postscript (1989), in Um Leben
und Tod, edited by Anton Leist, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt
am Main, 1990,
157-95.
A
Japanese translation of "Abortion and Infanticide," in The Bases of Bioethics,
edited by
Hisatake Kato and Nobuyuki Iida, Tokai University Press, Tokyo,
1988, 94-110.
"Ett
försvar för abort och
spädbarnsavlivande," in Abortetik,
edited by Thomas Anderberg and Ingmar Persson, Doxa, Lund,
Sweden, 1987, 115-44. (A
Swedish translation of the complete text
of "In Defense of Abortion and Infanticide.")
A
Forthcoming Chapter
“Causation:
A Non-Reductionist Analysis.” This article is to be published by
Oxford
University Press in Alternative
Approaches
to Causation, edited by Yafeng Shan.
Articles
and Published Addresses
“Calum Miller’s attempted refutation of Michael
Tooley’s evidential
argument from evil,” Religious
Studies,
2022, 1-18. (This
is a so-called FirstView
article, for which there is no
journal number!)
“Masturbation
and the Problem of Irrational
and Immoral Sexual Activity,”
Chapter 8 in The
Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics,
edited by David Boonin, (London: Palgrave Macmillan), 2022,
129-52.
“The
Moral Status of Human Cloning – Neo-Lockean Persons Versus
Human Embryos,” in Bioethics:
An Anthology – 4th edition,
edited by Udo Schüklenk, Helga Kuhse, and Peter Singer. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2021, 115-32.
“Afterthoughts,”
International
Journal for Philosophy of Religion 87,
2020, 234-37.
“Analyzing Sterba’s Argument,” International
Journal for
Philosophy of Religion 87, 2020, 217–222.
“Evidence,” in A Companion to Atheism
and Philosophy,
edited by Graham Oppy (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2019), pp.
303-22.
“A New Look at Evidential
Arguments from Evil,” in The History of
Evil From
the
Mid-Twentieth Century to Today - 1950 to 2018 CE, volume VI,
edited
by Jerome Gellman, Chad Meister, and Charles Taliaferro (New
York and London:
Routledge Press, 2018), pp. 28-44.
“Axiology: Theism
Versus Widely Accepted Monotheisms,” in Does
God Matter?, edited by Klaas J. Kraay (New York and
Abingdon, England,
2018), pp. 46-69.
“Solutions
to
the New Threats to Academic Freedom?" Bioethics, 28/4, 2014, 163-5.
“Michael
Tooley” in Science and
Religion: Five Questions,
edited by Gregg D. Caruso, Copenhagen, Automatic Press /VIP,
2014, 223-33.
"Abortion,"
in The Cambridge
Companion to Life and
Death, edited by Steven Luper, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2014,
243-63.
“Philosophy,
Critical Thinking, and
‘After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?’” The Journal of Medical Ethics 39/5, 2013,
266-72. Available
free online as the “Editor’s
Choice” article for this issue: http://jme.bmj.com/content/39/5/266.full
“Michael
Huemer and the Principle
of Phenomenal Conservatism,” in Seemings
and Justification – New Essays on Dogmatism and Phenomenal
Conservatism,
edited by Chris Tucker, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013,
306-27.
“Abortion,”
in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy,
Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2013.
“Plantinga’s
New Argument against
Materialism,” Philosophia
Christi,
14/1, 2012, 29-48.
“Inductive
Logic and the
Probability that God Exists: Farewell to Skeptical Theism,” in
Probability in the
Philosophy of Religion,
edited by Jake Chandler and Victoria S. Harrison, Oxford,
Oxford University
Press, 2012, 144-64.
“Against
Presentism: Two Very Different
Types of Objection,” in Future
of the
Philosophy of Time, edited by Adrian Barton, New York,
Routledge, 2012,
25-40.
“The
Skeptical Challenges of Hume
and Berkeley: Can They Be Answered?” Presidential
Address, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division,
San Diego, given
in April, 2011, and published in Proceedings
and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association,
85/2, 2011, 27-46.
“Are Nonhuman Animals
Persons?” in The Oxford
Handbook of Animal Ethics,
edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and R. G. Frey, Oxford, Oxford
University Press,
2011, 332-70.
“Naturalism, Science,
and Religion,” in The
Nature of Nature, edited by Bruce L.
Gordon and William A. Dembski, Wilmington, Delaware, ISI
Books, 2011, 880-99.
“Hume
and the Problem of Evil,” in Philosophy of Religion:
The Key Thinkers,
edited by Jeffrey J. Jordan, London and New York, Continuum,
2011, 159-86.
“Michael Tooley” in Metaphysics: Five Questions, edited by Asbjørn
Steglich-Petersen,
Copenhagen, Automatic Press /VIP, 2010, 143-59.
“Farewell
to McTaggart’s Argument?”
– Philosophia, 38/,
2010, 243-55.
“Time,
Truth, Actuality, and Causation:
On the Impossibility of Divine Foreknowledge,” European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion,
2/1, 2010, 143-61.
“A
Philosophical Journey,” The John Dewey
Lecture, American
Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, given in
February, 2009,
and published in Proceedings
and
Addresses of the American Philosophical Association,
83/2, 2009, 97-115.
“Helping
People to Think Critically
About Their Religious Beliefs”, in 50
Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists, edited by
Russell Blackford and
Udo Schüklenk, New York, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, 310-22.
“Causation,"
in The Routledge
Companion to Metaphysics,
edited by Robin LePoidevin, Peter
Simons,
Andrew
McGonigal,
Ross
Cameron,
New York, Routledge, 2009, 459-70.
"Grünbaum
on Space and Time,”
in Philosophy
of Religion, Physics, and Psychology: Essays in Honor of
Adolf Grünbaum,
edited by Aleksandar Jokic, Amherst, New York: Prometheus
Books, 2009, 259-86.
"Personhood,"
in A Companion to
Bioethics – Second Edition,
edited by Helge Kuhse and Peter Singer, Oxford, Blackwell
Publishing, 2009,
129-39. (This is
a revised and expanded
version of my essay in the first edition in 1998.)
"Causes,
Laws, and
Ontology," in The
Oxford Handbook of
Causation, edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher
Hitchcock, and Peter
Menzies, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, 368-86
"Two
Arguments for Absolute
Simultaneity," in Einstein, Relativity and Absolute
Simultaneity, edited
by William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith, London and New York,
Routledge, 2008,
229-43.
"Evil,
Problem of," in The
New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, edited
by Tom Flynn, Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books, 2007,
302-10.
"The
Problem
of Evil," Stanford
Encyclopedia
of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/, Revised
and expanded version,
July, 2007.
"Metaphysics,
Nature
of (Addendum)," in The
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, edited by
Donald Borchert, Volume
6, Farmington Hills, Michigan, Macmillan Reference,
2006, 208-12.
"Causal
Approaches
to the Direction of Time," in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd
edition, edited by Donald Borchert,
Volume 2, Farmington Hills, Michigan, Macmillan
Reference, 2006, 85-88.
"Causation:
Metaphysical
Issues," in The
Encyclopedia
of Philosophy, 2nd edition, edited by Donald
Borchert, Volume 2, Farmington
Hills, Michigan, Macmillan Reference, 2006, 95-103.
"Aborto
e
Infanticidio," a Portuguese translation of "Abortion and
Infanticide,"
in A Etica do
Aborto, edited by, and
translations done by, Pedro Galvao, Lisbon, Portugal: Dinalivro,
2005, 69-104.
"Presentism," in Chronos
(The Annual Proceedings of the Philosophy
of Time Society), VII, 2004-2005, 98-131.
"In
Defense
of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide," in
Contemporary
Debates in Applied Ethics, edited by
Andrew Cohen, and Christopher Wellman, Blackwell
Publishing, Oxford, 2005,
161-78.
“Probability and
Causation,” in Causation
and Chance, edited by Phil Dowe
and Paul Noordhof, Routledge, London, 2004, 77-119.
"Basic
Tensed Sentences and their Analysis," in Time, Tense, and Reference, edited by
Aleksandar Jokic and Quentin
Smith, MIT Press, Massachusetts, 2003, 409-47.
"Causation
and
Supervenience," in the Oxford
Handbook of Metaphysics, edited by Michael J. Loux and
Dean W. Zimmerman,
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, 386-434.
"Euthanasia
and
Assisted Suicide," in A
Companion to Applied Ethics, edited by R. G. Frey and
Christopher Heath
Wellman, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2003, 326-41.
"The
Stalnaker-Lewis Approach to Counterfactuals," Journal of Philosophy, 100/7, 2003, 371-77.
"Backward
Causation
and the Stalnaker-Lewis Approach to Counterfactuals," Analysis, 62, 2002,
191-97.
"The
Problem of Evil," Stanford
Encyclopedia
of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/,
September,
2002.
"Response
to
Robin Le Poidevin’s 'Is Precedence a Secondary Quality?’,"
in The Importance of
Time, edited by L.
Nathan Oaklander, Kluver, Dordrecht, 2001, 267-84.
"Response
to
Comments on Time,
Tense, and Causation,"
in The Importance of
Time, edited by
L. Nathan Oaklander, Kluver, Dordrecht, 2001, 31-58.
"Functional
Concepts,
Referentially Opaque Contexts, Causal Relations, and the
Definition
of Theoretical Terms," Philosophical
Studies, 105/3, 2001, 251-279.
"Freedom
and
Foreknowledge," Faith
and
Philosophy 17, 2000, 212-24.
"Is
Backward Causation Logically Possible?" in Philosophical Studies (Department of
Philosophy, The University of
Tokyo), 18, 1999, 1-32.
(This paper
consists of a combination of material from sections 3.2,
4.5, and 4.6 from the
1997 edition of Time,
Tense, and Causation,
together with material added to correct an error in that
earlier
discussion. The
added material was then
used in the revised, paperback edition of Time,
Tense, and Causation (2000), partly in section 4.6.2,
but mainly in the
Appendix.)
"The
Metaphysics of
Time," in The Arguments
of Time
(The British Academy Centenary volume on Time), edited by
Jeremy Butterfield,
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999, 21-42.
A
Japanese translation of "The
Moral Status of the Cloning of Humans," in Studien zur Praktischen Philosophie (Jissentetsugaku-Kenkyu), 22, 1999, 53-97.
“Causation,"
in The MIT Encyclopedia
of the Cognitive
Sciences, edited by Robert Wilson and Frank Keil, MIT
Press, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1999, 108-110.
"Speciesism
and Basic Moral
Principles," in Etica
& Animali,
(Special Issue Devoted to Nonhuman Personhood) 9, 1998, 5-36.
"Personhood,"
in A Companion to
Bioethics, edited by
Peter Singer and Helge Kuhse, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford,
1998, 117-26.
"The
Moral Status of the
Cloning of Humans," in Biomedical
Ethics
Reviews: Human Cloning, edited by James Humber and
Robert Almeder,
Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey, 1998, 65-101.
Reprinted in the Monash
Bioethics
Review, 18/1, 1999, 27-49.
Partially
reprinted in Applying
Ethics, 7th
Edition, edited by Jeffrey Olen and Vincent Barry, Wadsworth,
Belmont,
California, 2002, 287-98, and in Questions
of Life and Death – Readings in Practical Ethics, edited
by Christopher W.
Morris, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012, 469-86. Also translated into
Japanese.
"Values,
Obligation, and the
Asymmetry Question," in Bioethics,
12/2, 1998, 111-24.
"Causation,"
in The Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, Supplement,
edited by Donald M. Borchert,
New York, Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996, 72-5.
"Voluntary
Euthanasia: Active
Versus Passive, and the Question of
Consistency," in Revue
Internationale de Philosophie, 49/3, 1995, 305-22.
"Our
Current Drug Legislation:
Grounds for Reconsideration," Newsletter
of the Center for Values and Social Policy, 7/1, 1994,
1-3. Reprinted
in: Current Issues and Enduring Questions, 4th ed.,
edited by Sylvan
Barnet and Hugo Bedau, Bedford Books, Boston, 1996, 385-8.
"The
Argument from Evil,"
in Philosophical
Perspectives, 5 -
Philosophy of Religion, 1991, edited by James E.
Tomberlin, Ridgeview
Publishing, Atascadero, California, 1991, 89-134.
"Ethics,
Meta-Ethics, and
Philosophical Thinking," in Introduction
to Ethical Theory, edited by Kenneth F. Rogerson, Holt,
Rinehart and
Winston, Fort Worth, Texas, 1991, 11-19.
(This is a reprinting of sections 1.2-1.4 of Abortion and Infanticide.)
"Causation:
Reductionism
Versus Realism," in Philosophy
and
Phenomenological Research, 50, Supplement, 1990, 215-36.
"The
Nature of Causation: A
Singularist Account," in Canadian
Philosophers: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Canadian
Journal of Philosophy,
edited by David Copp, Canadian
Journal of
Philosophy, Supplementary 16, 1990, 271-322. Reprinted in:
Metaphysics: An Anthology,
edited by Jaegwon Kim and
Ernest Sosa, Blackwell, Oxford, 1999, 458-82.
"Abtreibung
und Kindstötung,"
a German translation of "Abortion and Infanticide," with a new
Postscript
(1989), in Um Leben und
Tod, edited
by Anton Leist, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1990,
157-95.
A
Japanese translation of
"Abortion and Infanticide" in The
Bases of Bioethics, edited by Hisatake Kato and Nobuyuki
Iida, Tokai
University Press, Tokyo, 1988, 94-110.
"In
Defense of the Existence
of States of Motion," Philosophical
Topics, 16/1, 1988, 225-54.
"Ett
försvar för abort och
spädbarnsavlivande," in Abortetik,
edited by Thomas Anderberg and Ingmar Persson, Doxa, Lund,
Sweden, 1987,
115-44. (A
Swedish translation of the
complete text of "In Defense of Abortion and Infanticide.")
"Response
to Mary Anne
Warren," in Philosophical
Books,
January, 1985, 9-14.
"Laws
and Causal
Relations," in Midwest
Studies in
Philosophy, Volume IX, edited by Peter French, Theodore
Uehling, and Howard
Wettstein, University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota, 1984,
93-112.
"In
Defense of Abortion and
Infanticide," in Moral
Issues,
edited by Jan Narveson, Oxford University Press, Toronto and
New York, 1983,
215-33; in The Problem
of Abortion,
2nd Edition, edited by Joel Feinberg, Wadsworth, Belmont,
California, 1984,
120-34; in Bioethics -
Readings and
Cases, edited by Baruch Brody and Tristram Engelhardt,
Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1987, 146-52; and in What Is a Person?, edited by Michael Goodman,
Humana Press,
Clifton, New Jersey, 1988.
This article
has also been translated into Swedish.
"Plantinga's
Defence of the
Ontological Argument," Mind,
90,
1981, 422-7.
"Alvin
Plantinga and the
Argument from Evil," Australasian
Journal
of Philosophy, 58/4, 1980, 360-76.
"An Irrelevant
Consideration: Killing
Versus Letting Die," in Killing
and Letting Die, edited by
Bonnie Steinbock, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,
1980, 56-62, and
reprinted in Killing and Letting Die,
2nd edition,
edited by Bonnie
Steinbock and Alastair
Norcross, Fordham University Press, New York, 1994, pp.
103–111.
"Decisions
to Terminate Life
and the Concept of a Person," in Ethical
Issues Relating to Life and Death, edited by John Ladd,
Oxford University
Press, Oxford, 1979, 62-92.
"Infanticide: A Philosophical
Perspective," in the Encyclopedia
of Bioethics, edited by
Warren T. Reich, Free Press, New York, 1978, 742-51.
"The
Nature of Laws," Canadian
Journal of Philosophy, 7/4, 1977,
667-98. Reprinted in: The
Philosophy of Science - Volume 1 - Explanation,
Law, and Cause, edited by Lawrence Sklar, New York
and London, 2000, 261-92,
and in Readings on
Laws of Nature,
edited by John W. Carroll, University of Pittsburgh Press,
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, 2004, 38-70.
"Would
ETIs Be Persons?,"
in Extra Terrestrial
Intelligence,
edited by James L. Christian, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY,
1976, 129-45.
"John
Hick and the Concept of
Eschatological Verification," Religious
Studies, 12, 1976, 177-99.
"Theological
Statements and
the Question of an Empiricist Criterion of Cognitive
Significance," in The
Logic of God - Theology and Verification,
edited by Malcolm L. Diamond and Thomas V. Litzenburg, Jr., Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis,
1975, 481-524.
"A
Defense of Abortion and
Infanticide," in The
Problem of
Abortion, edited by Joel Feinberg, Wadsworth, Belmont,
CA, 1973, 51-91.
"Replies,"
Philosophy & Public
Affairs, 2/4,
1973, 419-32.
"Armstrong's
Proof of the
Realist Account of Dispositional Properties," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 50/3, 1972,
283-7.
"Abortion
and Infanticide,"
Philosophy & Public
Affairs, 2/1,
1972, 37-65, and reprinted, with a postscript, in The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion, edited by
Marshall Cohen et al.,
Princeton University Press,
Princeton, 1973, 52-84.
Also
reprinted, in full or in part,
in: Ethics
in Perspective, edited by Karsten Struhl and Paula
Struhl, Random House,
New York, 1975; Ethics for Modern Life, edited by Raziel Abelson
and Marie-Louise
Friquegnon, St Martin's Press, New York, 1st edition, 1975,
2nd edition 1982,
and 3rd edition, 1987; Moral Problems in
Medicine, edited by
Samuel Gorovitz et al.,
Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1976; Death and Society,
edited by James Carce
and Arlene Dallery, Harcourt Brace, New York, 1977; Values
in Conflict, edited by Burton Leiser, Macmillan, New
York, 1981; Philosophy
for Adults, edited by Thomas Buford, University Press of
America,
Washington, 1981; Morality and Moral Controversies, edited by John
Arthur,
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1st edition,
1981, 2nd edition,
1986; Applying Ethics, edited by Vincent Barry,
Wadsworth, Belmont,
California, 1982; Ethics - Theory and Practice, edited by Manuel
Velasquez and
Cynthia Rostankowski, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New
Jersey, 1985; Issues
in Moral Philosophy, edited by Thomas Donaldson,
McGraw-Hill, New York,
1986; Applied Ethics, edited by Peter Singer, Oxford
University Press,
Oxford, 1986. Ethics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven M. Cahn
and Peter Markie,
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001.
This article has also been translated into Japanese,
German, and
Portuguese.
"Does
the Cosmological
Argument Entail the Ontological Argument?," Monist, 54/3, 1970, 416-26.
Critical
Notices and Longer Reviews
Review
of John W. Carroll's book, Laws of Nature.
The Philosophical Review,
106, 1997,
119-21.
Review
of Bas C. van Fraassen's book, Laws and
Symmetry, The
British Journal of the
Philosophy of Science, 46, 1995, 280-3.
Review
of David Owens's book, Causes
and
Coincidences, The
Philosophical
Review, 103/3, 1994, 546-9.
Review
of Richard Miller's book,
Fact and
Method: Explanation,
Confirmation and
Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciences, The Review of Metaphysics, 45/2, 1991, 416-8.
Review
of Evan Fales' book, Causation
and
Universals, Mind,
100, 1991, 385-8.
Review
of D. M. Armstrong,
edited by R. J.
Bogdan, Australasian
Journal of
Philosophy, 64/1, 1986, 97-102.
Critical
Notice of Alvin Plantinga's book, The
Nature of Necessity, Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, 55/1, 1977, 91-102.
Critical
Notice of Eike-Henner W. Kluge's book, The
Practice of Death, Canadian
Journal
of Philosophy, 6/2, 1976, 339-57.
Review
of A. C. Ewing's book, Value
and
Reality: The
Philosophical Case for
Theism, Philosophical
Review,
85/1, 1976, 115-21.
Review
of Stuart Brown's book, Do
Religious
Claims Make Sense?, Philosophical
Review, 81/4, 1972, 501-5.
Brief
Reviews
Review of
Simon Blackburn's book,
Essays in Quasi-Realism, The Review of
Metaphysics, Vol. 48, 1995, pp. 643-5.
John
Bishop's Natural Agency: An Essay on the
Causal Theory of Action, The Review of Metaphysics,
Vol. 45, No.
4, 1992, pp. 846-7.
David
Wood's The Deconstruction
of Time, The Review
of Metaphysics, Vol. 45, No.
3, 1992, pp. 645-6.
Review
of P. M. S. Hacker's book, Appearance and
Reality: A Philosophical Investigation into Perception and
Perceptual Qualities,
in The Review of
Metaphysics, 43/1,
1989, 164-6.
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LECTURES,
SEMINARS,
DEBATES, CONFERENCES, AND INTERVIEWS
“Abortion,"
Colorado Summer Seminar,
University of Colorado at Boulder, July, 2010.
Conference
Panel Discussion, “The
Future of the Philosophy of Time,” The Future of the Philosophy
of Time
Conference, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, April, 2010.
“Presentism and
Truthmakers,” The Future of
the Philosophy of Time Conference, Wake Forest University, North
Carolina,
April. 2010.
Comments
on Josh Mozersky’s "Three
Dimensionalism," American Philosophical Association, Pacific
Division, San
Francisco, April, 2010.
Debate on
the Existence of God,
with William Lane Craig of Biola University, at University of
North Carolina at
Charlotte, March 24, 2010, and sponsored by Ratio Christi.
“Does
God Exist? The
Evidential Argument from
Evil,” Texas Christian University, February 26, 2010
“The Moral Status of
Abortion: Some Unsound
Arguments,” Texas Christian University, February 25, 2010
“Voluntary Active
Euthanasia,” Texas Christian
University, February 24, 2010
“What
Is Wrong with the World, and Who Is to Blame?” Think! Talk, University of Colorado at Boulder,
February 2, 2010.
““Time, Truth,
Actuality, and Causation”,
International Conference on “God and the Future”, Theology
Faculty of Humboldt
University, Berlin, Germany, September, 2009.
“The
Probability that God Exists”, TheoLogica Conference on “Formal
Methods in the
Epistemology of Religion”, Leuven, Belgium, June, 2009.
“In Defense of Perdurantism," Colorado Summer
Seminar, July,
2009.
"Presentism
and
Truthmakers," American Philosophical Association, Pacific
Division
Meetings, April, 2009.
"A
Philosophical
Journey," The John Dewey Lecture, American Philosophical
Association, Central
Division, Chicago, February, 2009.
“How to Teach and Study
the History of
Philosophy”, Colorado Summer Seminar, July, 2008.
“God and
Evil”, Philosophy Talk
radio show, June, 2008,
hosted by John Perry and Ken Taylor.
“Inductive
Logic and the Probability
that God Exists”, 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact
Philosophy,
University of Wyoming, May, 2008.
Debate on
the Existence of God,
with Peter Kreeft of Boston College, at Wheaton College,
Massachusetts, April,
2008, and sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
“The
Refutation of McTaggart’s
Argument,” Keynote address, University of West Virginia,
Department of
Philosophy Conference “Time on Trial: 100 Years of McTaggart’s
Argument against
the Reality of Time,” April, 2008.
“The
Probability that God Exists,”
American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting,
March, 2008.
“The
Argument from Evil,” Keynote
address, Texas Tech University’s Second Annual Graduate Student
Philosophy
Conference, March 7-8, 2008.
“The Moral Status of Abortion: An Overview,"
Abortion Conference,
University of Colorado at Boulder, November, 2007.
“Metaphysics
and Laws of Nature:
Reductionist versus Non-Reductionist Approaches”, Colorado
Summer Seminar,
July, 2007.
“The
Principle of Phenomenal Conservatism”, Bled
Conference in Epistemology - 2007, Bled, Slovenia, May
27–June 2, 2007.
“The
Mind-Body Problem,” Think! Talk, University of Colorado, April,
2007.
“Against Freedom of
Thought and Freedom of
Expression," Center for Values and Social Policy, University of
Colorado
at Boulder, April, 2007.
Roundtable
on Causation and
Responsibility,
Mount Hood, Oregon, November, 2006.
"Evolution,
Intelligent
Design, and Education," The Committee on the History and
Philosophy of Science Regional Science Conference on Darwinian
Evolution,
Boulder, Colorado, April 2006.
Debate
with Professor Peter Van Inwagen of the University of Notre Dame
on the topic
"Should We Believe in God?", Amherst College, March 2006.
"Perdurantism:
A
Defense," The University of Nebraska, February 2006.
The
Evans Memorial Lecture, The University of Nebraska, February
2006.
Debate
with Bill Jack on "Evolution Versus Creationism," The Ridge
Community
Church, Northglenn, Colorado, October 2005.
"The
Evidential Argument from Evil," University of Kansas, September
2005.
"Abortion,"
University
of Kansas, September 2005.
"Michael
Huemer's Defense of Direct Realism," University of Washington,
May 2005.
“The
Evidential Argument from Evil," Davidson College, April 2005.
"In
Defense of Perdurantism," Inland Northwest Philosophy
Conference,
University of Idaho, April 2005.
"Presentism,"
American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, March
2005.
"A
New Form of Moral Skepticism?," The First Russell Conference,
Healdsburg,
California, March 2005.
Gail
Stine Memorial Lecture, Wayne State University, April 2004.
"Counterfactual
Analyses
of Causation," American Philosophical Association, Pacific
Division Meetings, April 2004.
“The
Evidential Argument from Evil," University of Alberta at
Edmonton, March
2004.
"The
Stalnaker-Lewis Approach to Counterfactuals," University of
Calgary, March
2004.
“The Argument from
Evil," West Virginia
University, April 2003.
“Rethinking
Time,"
West Virginia University, April 2003.
“The
Nature of Basic Tensed Sentences," University of Iowa, April
2003.
E.
W. Hall Lecture, “Freedom of Thought and Expression," University
of Iowa,
April 2003.
Debate
on with Professor Hadley Arkes of the University of
Massachusetts on Abortion,
Princeton Bioethics Conference, February 2003.
Four
Debates with Michael Horner on the Existence of God, Canadian
Campus Crusade
for Christ: the
University of Guelph,
McMaster University, University of Waterloo, and the University
of Western
Ontario, January 2003.
"The
Evidential Argument from Evil," California State University at
Long Beach,
Odyssey Project, November 2002.
"Grünbaum
on Time," Conference on Adolf Grünbaum, Santa Barbara City
College,
October 2002.
"Ethical
Issues Raised by Human Cloning," Chautauqua Community Forum,
July 2002.
“An
Evidential Argument from Evil:
The
Inductive Step," American Philosophical Association, Pacific
Division
Meetings, March 2002.
"Causation
and the Stalnaker-Lewis Approach to Counterfactuals," Department
of
Philosophy, Brown University, February 2002.
"Comments
on Adolf Grünbaum's 'The Poverty of Theistic Cosmology'." Eastern Division
Meeting, American Philosophical
Association, December 2001.
"The
Evidential Argument from Evil:
The
Inductive Step," University of Miami, March 2001.
"Counterfactuals:
The
Stalnaker/Lewis Approach," University of Miami, March 2001.
"The
Evidential Argument from Evil:
The Inductive
Step," Western Michigan University, November 2000.
"Counterfactuals:
The
Stalnaker/Lewis Approach," Western Michigan University, November
2000.
"Comments
on Stephen Davis's Paper, 'The Limits of Apologetics: the Proofs'," Society
of Christian Philosophers
- Mountain-Plains Regional Conference, September 2000.
"Comments
on Robin Le Poidevin's Paper, 'Is Precedence a Secondary
Quality?',"
Central Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association,
April 2000.
"Are
there any Sound Arguments for Supernaturalism?" Conference on
The Nature
of Nature, Baylor University, April 2000.
"Basis
Rules and Direct Realism," Pacific Division Meeting, American
Philosophical
Association, April 2000.
"The
Evidential Argument from Evil," University of Vermont, March
2000.
"The
Stalnaker/Lewis Approach to Counterfactuals," University of
California at
San Diego, March 2000.
Debate
with Professor Keith Yandell of the University of Wisconsin on
"God and
Evil," Arapahoe Community College, Denver, Colorado, February
2000.
"The
Evidential Argument from Evil," Biola University, Los Angeles,
California,
February 2000.
"The
Evidential Argument from Evil:
The
Inductive Step," University of California at Riverside, February
2000.
"Comments
on Ned Hall's 'Two Concepts of Causation'," Eastern Division
Meeting,
American Philosophical Association, December 1999.
"Ethics
and Critical Thinking," Casey Middle School, Boulder, December
1999.
"The
Metaphysics of Time," Department of Philosophy, San Francisco
State
University, October 1999.
Lectures
in Japan on a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Fellowship:
1.
"Basic Issues in the Philosophy of Time, and Alternative
Accounts," The University of Tokyo, May 1999.
2. "A Causal Theory of
the Direction of
Time," Nihon University, Japanese Philosophy of Science Society,
May 1999.
3.
"Problems with Standard Tensed Views of Time," The
University
of Tokyo, May 1999.
4. "The Moral Status of
the Cloning of
Humans," the Japanese Association of Bioethics, June 1999.
5.
"The Analysis of Tensed Sentences," The University of
Tokyo,
June 1999.
6.
"Future Contingents and the Objections to Three-Valued Logic,"
Tokyo
Metropolitan University, June 1999.
7. "Is
Backward Causation Logically Possible,"
Keio University, June, 1999.
"The Nature of Time: Philosophy,
Physics,
and Phenomenology. "
Center
for the Humanities and Arts "Rethinking Time" Series, University
of
Colorado at Boulder, October 1999.
"The
Analysis of Knowledge," Pacific Division Meeting, American
Philosophical
Association, April 1999.
"The
Evidential Argument from Evil:
The
Inductive Step," University of Edinburgh, February 1999.
"Bealer's
Argument against Functionalism," Wichita State University,
October 1998.
Session
on Time, Tense, and
Causation,
Central Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association,
May 1998: Response
to papers by Storrs McCall, Nathan
Oaklander, and Quentin Smith.
"The
Evidential Argument from Evil:
The Inductive
Step," Society of Christian Philosophers Intermountain Meeting,
April
1997.
"A
Defense of Absolute Simultaneity," Pacific Division Meeting,
American
Philosophical Association, April 1996.
"An
Alternative Approach to the Nature of Time," The University of
Toronto,
January 1996.
"Same
Time, Same Place: A Defense of Absolute Simultaneity," Committee
on the
History and Philosophy of Science, University of Colorado,
December 1995.
"God
and Evil," 1995 Intermountain Regional Conference of The Society
of Christian
Philosophers, March 1995.
Debate
with William Lane Craig on the Existence of God, University of
Colorado at
Boulder, November 1994.
"Abortion
and Critical Thinking," University of Colorado at Boulder, April
1994.
"The
Nature of Time," University of Colorado at Boulder, February
1992.
"Truth-functionality
and
Three-valued Logic," annual meeting of the Australasian
Association of
Philosophy, July 1991.
"A
Defense of Tense," Department of Traditional and Modern
Philosophy, The
University of Sydney, April 1990.
"A
Defense of a Singularist Conception of Causation," Philosophy
Department,
Monash University, September 1989.
"Same
Place, Same Time," Philosophy Department, Melbourne University,
September
1989.
"A
Defense of a Tensed View of Time," Philosophy Department, La
Trobe
University, September 1989.
"Philosophical
Approaches
to Ethical Issues in Health Care," Public Health Association on
Current Ethical Issues in Public Health, Princess Margaret
Hospital, Perth,
March 1988.
"The
Morality of Abortion," Abortion Law Reform Association, Perth,
November
1987.
"Australian
Drug
Laws," National Health and Medical Research Council Unit in
Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, University of Western
Australia,
October 1987.
"Laws
of Nature and the Empiricist Loyalty Test," Western Australian
Society for
the History and Philosophy of Science, October 1986.
"Empiricism
and
Laws of Nature," Alberta Tri-University Philosophy Conference,
Banff,
Alberta, April 1986.
"Laws
of Nature and the Empiricist Loyalty Test," Philosophy
Departments,
University of Guelph and University of Western Ontario, March
1986.
"Empiricism
and
Laws of Nature," Philosophy Department, University of Toronto,
March
1986.
"In
Defense of the Existence of States of Motion," Philosophy
Department, Trent
University, February 1986.
"Epiphenomenalism,"
Presidential
Address, Australasian Association of Philosophy, 1984.
"In
Vitro Fertilization," Public Lecture, University of Western
Australia,
1983.
"Causation
and Humean Supervenience," Conference of the Florida Chapter of
the
American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1982.
"Singular
Causation," Florida Philosophical Association Convention, 1981.
"Obligations
Concerning
Possible Persons," Kansas Tri-University Philosophy Conference,
1981.
"Armstrong
on the Nature of Belief," Conference on Belief, University of
Queensland,
1979.
"Propositions
and
Beliefs," Philosophy Department, University of Adelaide, 1978.
"Abortion
and Infanticide," Philosophy Club, University of Adelaide, 1978.
"Semantics
and Ontology," Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy,
University
of Sydney, 1978.
"Propositions
and
the Individuation of Beliefs," Philosophy Department, Monash
University, 1978.
"Abortion
and Infanticide," Philosophy and Public Issues Lecture Series,
Monash
University, 1978.
"The
Rights of Children," Symposium on the Rights of Children, Monash
University, 1978.
"The
Nature of Laws," Philosophy Department, University of Utah,
1977.
"The
Nature of Laws," a Mahlon-Powell Lecture at the University of
Indiana, 1977.
"The
Nature of Nomic Necessitation," Department of Traditional and
Modern
Philosophy, University of Sydney, 1976.
"Moral
Issues Involved in Decisions to Terminate Life," a series of
lectures at
the Council for Philosophical Studies' Institute on Moral
Problems in Medicine,
1974.
"Death
and the Concept of a Person," Symposium on Medical Ethics, Brown
University, 1974.
"Reply
to Professor Devine," Eastern Division Meetings of the American
Philosophical Association, 1973.
"Knowledge
of Other Minds and the Argument from Analogy," Philosophy
Department,
Simon Fraser University, 1973.
"Ethics
and the Concept of a Person," Philosophy Department, California
State
University at Hayward, 1973.
"The
Question of Abortion," Philosophy Forum, Los Angeles City
College, 1972.
"Abortion
and Infanticide," Philosophy Colloquium, University of
California at Los
Angeles, 1972.