Research Area(s)
- Evolutionary Ethics
- Evidentialism
- Law
Publications
Evolutionary Intuitionism: A Theory of the Origin and Nature of Moral Facts, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007. Website: http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2025
“A New Argument for Ethical Evidentialism,” Philosophia 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-024-00769-7.
“Clifford’s Consequentialism,” Utilitas 34(3), 2022, 289-299.
“The Evolution of Moral Standing without Supervenience,” Philosophical Papers 51, 2022, 333-349.
“Hypocrisy and the Nature of Belief,” Ratio 28(2) (2015), 175-189.
“Rehabilitating the Declaratory Theory of the Common Law,” Journal of Law and Courts 2(1) (2014) 171-186.
“The Cliffordian Virtue,” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 5(3) (2013) 159-176.
“The Paradoxical Impact of Religious Freedom,” The Quint 3 (2010), pp. 11-36, https://www.ucn.ca/ics/icsfs/Quint_3.1.pdf?target=35417f65-9e83-46d5-b326-20624fdddfdb
“God, Evil, and Evolution,” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 2(2) (2010), 201-217.
“The Good Samaritan Problem,” National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (Spring 2010), 5-7.
“Reconciling Reason and Religion: A Response to Peels,” Religious Studies 46 (2010), 109-113.
“Christianity and the Ethics of Belief,” Religious Studies 44 (2008), pp. 333-346.
“How Libertarianism Opposes Coercive Capitalism: A Reply to Silver,” Dialogue 47 (2008), pp. 137-140.
“Morality and the Foundations of Practical Reason,” Reason Papers 29 (2007), pp. 7-17.
“Nozick’s Anachronistic Libertarianism,” Dialogue 44 (2005), pp. 211-223.
“Rejoinder to Scott,” Religious Studies 41 (2005), pp. 225-229.
“A Defense of the Ethics of Belief,” Philo 7 (2004), pp. 79-96.
“A Reply to Mawson,” Religious Studies 40 (2004), pp. 365-366.
“Religion and the Pursuit of Truth,” Religious Studies 39 (2003), pp. 43-60.
“A Re-evaluation of Clifford and His Critics,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 40 (2002), pp. 437-457.
“Aquinas’s Theory of Natural Law in the Light of Evolution,” Philo 4 (2001), pp. 21-37.
“William James did not annihilate the ‘evidence daleks’,” The Guardian, Comment is free, Cif Belief, 19 November 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/nov/19/william-james-evidence-daleks-faith?INTCMP=SRCH.
Research
Education & Training
Ph.D. (Latrobe), M.A. (Calgary), M.Ed. (Saskatchewan), B.A. (Saskatchewan)