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 grandchildren Anthony, Joshua,
Donald, Joseph, and Sofia.
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, 1998-99.
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, 1983-84.
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow, 1966-67.
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1964-65.
Current Positions
Distinguished
College Professor, Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado.
2006-
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.
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: 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 have recently been teaching are 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 assistant
professor in philosophy at Manhattan College.)
Alex Baia (2004) The Non-Contradiction of
Tensed Facts: A Partial Reply to
McTaggart. (Alex did a Ph.D. at the University of Texas.)
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 classical problem of
induction. In philosophy of religion, my primary focus is upon
the question of the rationality or irrationality of belief in
the existence of God. In ethics, my research is concerned with
issues in the area of applied ethics, including sexual morality,
euthanasia, abortion, and cloning.
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 is
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
Causation
A draft of this book was completely some time ago.
Length, however, is a problem, so cuts need to be made. In
addition, a section on the temporal asymmetry of basic laws of
nature needs to be revised to address what Barry Loewer has
labeled the “Mentaculus Vision,” a view advanced by David Albert,
and according to which the laws of physics are temporally
symmetric. If this view were sound, it would be the basis of a
serious objection to any non-reductionist view of causation, and
thus to the view that I am defending.
I also need to add a short chapter
discussing
the view advanced by L. A. Paul and Ned Hall in Chapter 2 of their
book Causation – A User’s Guide, according to
which philosophers should think not in terms of offering an
analysis of the concept of causation, but instead of setting out
an ontological reduction of causation.
My goal is to have these revisions done by the end of
this summer.
Articles
The following
articles are nearly complete:
“Against the
Mentaculus Vision”
Here I set out
my objection to the defense of the view that the basic laws of
physics are temporally symmetric proposed by David Albert and
defended by Barry Loewer.
“The Temporal
Asymmetry of the Laws of Electrodynamics”
Building on the
discussion in the preceding paper, I argue that the basic laws of
electrodynamics are temporally asymmetric, which entails that
Maxwell’s equations are not a complete basis for electromagnetism.
“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 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
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.
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 argue that induction can be justified if and
only if governing laws of nature are logically possible.
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.
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.
Abortion:
The Arguments
A few years ago I
completed an online bibliography on abortion for Oxford University
Press. In doing so, I concluded that this was another disaster
area in philosophy, where most articles should never have been
published, since the authors were unaware of crucial arguments. My
goal in this book will be to set out all of the important
arguments dealing with the question of the moral status of
abortion, then to survey possible objections in order to arrive at
conclusion about which arguments are sound and which unsound.
This is a book that I
want to see published not only in traditional form, but also
online, so that if any parts of the book turn out to be unsound,
corrections can be made in the online version.
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.")
Articles and
Published Addresses
“Masturbation
and the
Problem of Irrational and Immoral Sexual Activity,” in the Palgrave Handbook of Sexual
Ethics,
edited by David Boonin, (London: Palgrave Macmillan), to be
published in 2021.
“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), forthcoming.
“The
Moral Status of Human Cloning – Neo-Lockean Persons Versus Human
Embryos,” in Bioethics:
An Anthology – 4th edition (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2020),
forthcoming.
“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
“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.
"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.
Articles Currently Close to Completion
1. "Temporal
Asymmetry and the Laws of Physics"
2.
"Persistence: A Defense of
Perdurantism"
3.
"Moral Realism: A Skeptical Problem"
4.
"Counterfactual Approaches to Causation"
5.
"The Limits of Freedom of Expression"
6.
"The Case against Premarital Sexual Intercourse"
7. "Presentism"
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.
UNIVERSITY AND PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE
AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
Member of Promotion
Committee: Michael Huemer, 2010-11.
Member of Promotion
Committee: Carol Cleland, 2005-06.
Member of Promotion
Committee: Michael Huemer, 2004-05.
Member of Promotion
Committee: Luc Bovens, 2003-04.
Interim Head,
Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder,
2002-03.
Vice Chancellor's
Advisory Committee, 2002.
Member of Promotion
Committee: David Boonin, 2001-02.
Chair of Promotion
Committee: Wes Morriston, 2000-01.
Director of Graduate
Studies in Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder,
1999-2001.
Member of the Boulder
Faculty Assembly, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1997-98.
Chair of Promotion
Committee: Steven Leeds, 1997-98.
Chair of the Graduate
Committee of the Arts and Humanities, University of Colorado at
Boulder, 1997-98.
Member of the
Graduate Committee of the Arts and Humanities, University of
Colorado at Boulder, 1996-98.
Chair of Promotion
Committee: Ann Davis, 1995-96.
Chair of Colloquium
Committee, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1994-98.
Member of Promotion
Committee: John Fisher, 1994-95.
Chair of Promotion
and Tenure Committee: Carol Cleland, 1992-93.
Head of Department,
Philosophy, University of Western Australia, 1985-88.
Moderator of the
Undergraduate Honors Program in Philosophy, University of Western
Australia, 1985-88.
Director of Graduate
Study, Philosophy, University of Western Australia, 1983-88.
Chairman of the
School, Philosophy, University of Western Australia, 1983-84.
Program Organizer for
the Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of
Philosophy, 1978.
Member of the
Committee Considering Possible Reorganization of the Research
School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1978.
Member of the
Scholarship Committee of the Research School of Social Sciences,
Australian National University, 1975-76.
Director of
Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy, Stanford University, 1969-71.
LECTURES,
SEMINARS, DEBATES, CONFERENCES, AND INTERVIEWS
“Causation and
Time,” Panel discussion,” International Association for the
Philosophy of Time, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, June 11, 2016
“Tensed
Properties and the Growing Block View of the Nature of Time: An
Unsound Objection,” International Association for the Philosophy
of Time, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, June 10, 2016
“Temporal
Asymmetry and the Laws of Physics,” American Philosophical Association,
Eastern Division, Washington, D.C., January, 2016.
Comments on Don
Marquis’s “What wrong with the Future of Value Argument,” RoME
VIII Conference, Boulder, Colorado, August 7, 2015.
“Axiology: Theism Versus Widely Accepted
Monotheisms,” Axiology of Theism Conference, Toronto, September 11, 2015
“Temporal
Asymmetry and the Laws of Physics,” Society for Exact Philosophy
Conference, McMaster University, May 22, 2015.
“Skepticism,”
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, March 20,
2015.
“California’s
“’Yes’ Means Yes Law,” A Conversation with Heidi Lockwood,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, March 19,
2015.
“The Skeptical
Challenges of Berkeley and Hume: Can They Be Answered?” Eastern
Carolina University, March 18, 2015.
“Sexual
Assault and Sexual Harassment in Universities,” Eastern Carolina
University, March 17, 2015.
Debate on
Euthanasia with Wesley Smith, Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought at the
University of Colorado, Boulder, February 4, 2015.
“Reason, Faith,
and Miracles,” A Veritas Forum Conversation with Ian Hutchinson, Boulder, Colorado,
January 29, 2015.
Debate on
Evolution and Naturalism, Ridge Community Church, Broomfield,
Colorado, May, 2014
“The Skeptical
Challenges of Berkeley and Hume: Can They Be Answered?” College of William and Mary,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March, 2014.
“Atheism and
Christianity,” A Veritas Forum Conversation with John Lennox,
Boulder, Colorado, November 13, 2013.
“The
Skeptical Challenges of Berkeley and Hume: Can They Be
Answered?” Keynote Address, Western Canadian
Philosophical Association, University of Victoria, Victoria,
British Columbia, November, 2012.
“What Is Wrong with the World, and
Who Is to Blame?” Lansdowne
Public Lecture, University of Victoria, Victoria, British
Columbia, November, 2012.
“Causation and Probability,”
Konstanz Conference, 'The Objective Reality of Causality', University of
Konstanz, Germany, May, 2012.
“The
Skeptical Challenges of Berkeley and Hume: Can They Be
Answered?” Keynote Address, Illinois
Philosophical Association, Northern Illinois University, De
Kalb, Illinois, November, 2011.
“The
Skeptical Challenges of Berkeley and Hume: Can They Be
Answered?” Presidential Address, American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Division, San Diego,
April, 2011.
“Does God Exist?” Theology/Philosophy Symposium: The Problem of Evil: Why
Bad Things Happen to Good People, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin,
Texas, February, 2011.
“Don Marquis and Michael Tooley on
Abortion and Personhood,” Philosophy
TV Discussion, December 8, 2010,
http://www.philostv.com/don-marquis-and-michael-tooley.
“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.