Current EPS Site Articles
- Fall 2011 EPS President's Update
- Dr. Paul Copan, PhD
- An EPS Fall 2011 update and reflection from President Paul Copan More>>
- Doing Philosophy as a Christian: Interview with Garry DeWeese (Part One)
- Dr. Garry DeWeese, PhD
- In this interview, Garry DeWeese discusses some of the core contours of what it means to do philosophy as a Christian More>>
- Christianity Not a Source of Violence
- Dr. James S. Spiegel, PhD
- In the wake of the recent killings in Oslo, Norway, there has been a flurry of debate over whether the accused mass-murderer, Anders Breivik, is in fact a Christian. In this statement, influencers in the Evangelical Philosophical Society respond to claims that Christianity caused Breivik to commit heinous acts of violence. More>>
- Theistic Foundations of Morality: Interview with David Baggett
- Dr. David Baggett, PhD
- In this wide-ranging interview, David Baggett (with co-author Jerry Walls) discuss many different areas from their 2011 book, Good God: Theistic Foundations of Morality, including the implications that their view has for moral apologetics. More>>
- Theistic Foundations of Morality: Interview with Jerry L. Walls
- Dr. Jerry L. Walls, PhD
- In this wide-ranging interview, Jerry Walls (with co-author David Baggett) discuss many different areas from their 2011 book, Good God: Theistic Foundations of Morality, including the implications that their view has for moral apologetics. More>>
- The Ethics of Capital and Interest: An Interview with Shawn Ritenour
- Dr. Shawn Ritenour, PhD
- This interview explores from a Christian perspective some fundamental concepts in economics in light of the ethics of capital and interest More>>
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Philosopher of Civil Society: An Interview with Brian Smith
- Dr. Brian A. Smith, PhD
- This interview underscores the importance of Alexis de Tocqueville's social thought in light of his anthropology and view of humane institutions in a society. More>>
- Friedrich Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity and Capitalism: An Interview Kishore Jayabalan
- Mr. Kishore Jayabalan
- This interview offers a response to one of the major cultural critiques of capitalism and offers considerations for how to articulate a vision of the the free-market in light of a humane civil society. More>>
- Thinking about Sustainability and the Environment: An Interview with Craig Mitchell
- Dr. Craig Vincent Mitchell, PhD
- Craig Mitchell talks about the the ethics and economics of environmental More>>
- Centralization and Civil Society: An Interview with John Bolt
- Dr. John Bolt, PhD
- This interview discusses such topics like what is the relationship between centralization of political power and civil society. More>>
- On Corruption, Freedom, and Intellectual Entrepreneurs: An Interview with Alex Chafuen
- Dr. Alex Chafuen, PhD
- In this topically wide-ranging interview, Dr. Chafuen discusses the role of "intellectual entrepreneurs" in a society, how to think about factors related to economic-political corruption a society and what can be done about it. More>>
- Judaism, Commerce, and Free Markets: An Interview with Isaac Lifshitz
- Dr. Joseph Isaac Lifshitz, PhD
- This interview articulates some of the core concepts in Jewish economic theory and suggests how Christians thinkers might benefit from this tradition of thought. More>>
- Envy and the Search for Fairness in our Economic Relationships: An Interview with Victor Claar
- Dr. Victor V. Claar, PhD
- In this interview, Victor Claar talks about the nature and relevance of envy and fairness in economic relationships and systems and how to deal with it. More>>
- Adam Smith, Philosopher and Political Economist: An Interview with James Otteson
- Dr. James R. Otteson, PhD
- This interview offers an account of Adam Smith as philosophical political economist and how philosophers and theologians can utilize his anthropology in their social policy. More>>
- On Aristotle, Aquinas, and Paley: A Reply to Marie George
- Dr. Edward Feser, PhD
- An exclusive web reply by Edward Feser on Marie George's response to his 2010 article in Philosophia Christi More>>
- Is Methodological Naturalism Question-Begging?
- Dr. Robert A. Larmer, PhD
- Proponents of methodological naturalism typically commit the fallacy of petitio principii, that is, begging the question. More>>
- Further Benefits of Sports
- Dr. James S. Spiegel, PhD
- In addition to the potential of sports to help build virtue in athletes, there are many other benefits as well. In this piece Spiegel discuss some of these, which are social, aesthetic, and even theological in nature. And he notes how these benefits extend beyond athletes to spectators. More>>
- Football, Baseball, and the Culture of Violence
- Dr. Douglas Groothuis, PhD
- Groothuis argues that football is morally objectionable because it is intrinsically violent and thus is conducive to vice in both its players and its fans. By way of contrast, he argues that baseball is only contingently violent, that it is not based on violence, and that it is, as such, a morally superior sport. More>>
- The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: My Response to Matthew Roberts, Jim Spiegel, and Doug Groothuis
- Dr. Michael W. Austin, PhD
- In this paper, Austin consider the points raised by Professors Spiegel, Roberts, and Groothuis concerning the moral, physical, intellectual, and aesthetic value of football in particular, and sports in general. He considers how one might appropriate their points as a fan, participant, and parent of children involved in sports. He argues that there are ways in which the follower of Christ can and should seek to redeem life in the sporting realm. More>>
- Virtue, Vice, and Violence
- Dr. Matthew Roberts, PhD
- Matthew Roberts argues that football possesses certain intrinsic bads which are both perpetuated by its extrinsic goods and perpetuate vice in some of its participants. As a means to the inculcation of virtue, football, like most sports, provides ample opportunity. But, other non heavy-contact sports are to be preferred over football when considered as a means to the inculcation of virtue. More>>
- Fossils, Fishnets, Fine-tuning...and Flaws in Elliott Sober's Defense of Common Ancestry
- Dr. Troy Nunley, PhD
- This article attempts to show how Sober's argument for common ancestry both at the level of evidence and approach More>>
- An Aristotelian-Thomist Responds to Feser
- Dr. Marie George, PhD
- I argue that Edward Feser misconstrues the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition on issues relevant to the arguments for God?s existence that proceed from finality in nature because he misapplies the A-T view that ordering to an end is inherent in natural things More>>
- Teleology: A Shopper's Guide
- Dr. Edward Feser, PhD
- This paper identifies five possible theories of teleology, and five distinct levels of nature at which teleology might be said to exist. More>>
- Atheists Against Darwinism
- Mr. Peter Stephen Williams
- Intelligent design theory claims that 1) empirical evidence warrants 2) a scientific design inference using 3) reliable design detection criteria. Philosophia Christi published my paper "The Design Inference from Specified Complexity Defended by Scholars Outside the Intelligent Design Movement: A Critical Review" (Philosophia Christi, Vol 9, Number 2), which defended the third of these claims by reviewing the work atheists and theistic evolutionists. This paper defends the second of these claims, likewise by reviewing work by agnostics and atheists. More>>
- Yahweh Wars and the Canaanites
- Dr. Paul Copan, PhD
- Of the various Old Testament (OT) ethical issues, Yahweh's command that Israel kill the Canaanites strikes us as the weightiest. In this issue of Philosophia Christi, Wes Morriston and Randal Rauser highlight this theme in reply to my earlier essay, "Is Yahweh a Moral Monster?" I am grateful for their comments and for the opportunity to respond to the key questions they raise. Since their objections overlap somewhat, I shall simply list and respond to the major concerns as I see them. In doing so, I shall touch on the contributions made by comrades-in-arms, Clay Jones and Joseph Buijs, whose supportive essays also appear in this issue. More>>
- Ridiculous Religulous
- Dr. Craig J. Hazen, PhD
- The new film Religulous by Bill Maher and Larry Charles attracts those who are already fans of Bill Maher and his open hostility to all things religious. But Religulous is nothing more than filthy, nudie, druggie, and obtusey. There is little to laugh at and nothing to learn. More>>
- The Design Inference from Specified Complexity Defended by Scholars Outside the Intelligent Design Movement
- Mr. Peter Stephen Williams
- Independent agreement among a diverse range of scholars with different worldviews shows that complex specified information is a sound criterion of design detection. Philosopher Peter Williams argues that even scientists and philosophers outside the ID movement, including some who are opposed to the theory, use CSI as a design detection criterion. Here, he demonstrates empirical evidence within the natural world justifies a design inference on the basis of reliable design detection criteria such as CSI. More>>
- A Rough Guide to Creation & Evolution
- Mr. Peter Stephen Williams
- Whether or not there is an objective purpose to life obviously depends upon whether or not life was created for a purpose. You can't get purpose without a purposer. It's impossible to entertain the question of whether life might be created for a purpose without raising the question of how a belief in creation relates to scientific attempts to understand origins - and especially how a belief in creation relates to the theory of evolution. More>>
- The Big Bad Wolf, Theism and the Foundations of Intelligent Design
- Mr. Peter Stephen Williams
- As both an "educated" Christian and an ID theorist I find plenty with which to take issue in The God Delusion; primarily because this rhetorical tour de force relies upon setting up and knocking down straw men. Dawkins' review of natural theology is anything but "thorough" in either breadth or depth and the book delivers a feast of fallacies, including assertion making, wishful thinking, equivocation, data picking, and ridiculing anything Dawkins cannot understand. More>>
- Is Yahweh a Moral Monster?
- Dr. Paul Copan, PhD
- The new atheists (Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens) level arguments against Old Testament morality as primitive and barbaric, presumably undercutting belief in the biblical God (Yahweh). Yet the Old Testament presents creational moral ideals in Genesis 1-2. Because of Israel's embeddedness in the ancient Near East's harsh, morally-problematic social milieu, Old Testament legislation is in places still morally inferior, though offering dramatic, incrementalimprovements upon such conditions. Mosaic Law attempts to regulate and limit tolerated structures (warfare, polygamy, patriarchalism, slavery), permitting various social structures because of human hardheartedness. Though falling short of the divine ideal, Mosaic laws often point to it. More>>
- My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism
- Dr. Gary R. Habermas, PhD
- Prof. Antony Flew, 81 years old, is a legendary British philosopher and atheist and has been an icon and champion for unbelievers for decades. His change of mind is significant news, not only about his personal journey, but also about the persuasive power of the arguments modern theists have been using to challenge atheistic naturalism. More>>


