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Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. Specialist in Philosophy of Religion. Main focus of research: arguments about the existence of God.

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Farsi translation of *Reinventing Philosophy of Religion: An Opinionated Introduction*.
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@Helenreflects Answer is, indeed, Paul Benacerraf's favourite number. Note that 18=4+7+7. You increase by one if you trade a 7 for two 4s. Also 20=4+4+4+4+4. You increase by one if your trade five 4s for three 7s. This gives you a complete algorithm for generating integers greater than 18.
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"While Christianity is still the most common religion in Australia, religious diversity is increasing: 39% of respondents identified as Christian in the 2021 census compared to more than half in 2016 and 61% in 2011."
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The long read:
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Anyone who would be surprised if this turned out to be true?
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In good company.
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Congratulations to the volume editors and contributors on these three new additions to the Classic Philosophical Arguments series, now in stock
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@MNaturalism @TheoreticalBS @rjonesx It was a passing reference to the thesis of disciplinary speciation: new disciplines emerge from philosophy as methods are developed that are capable of producing expert consensus on given subject matters.
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Vol 4.2 of APR is out: Curated by Ed Mares. Lead article by Hartry Field: "Properties, Propositions, and Conditionals". Commentaries by: Zach Weber; Shawn Standefer, Rohan French & Greg Restall; and Luis Estrada-Gonzalez and Elisangela Ramirez-Camara.
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New issue of *Australasian Philosophical Review* on faith and evidence. Curated by Helen De Cruz. Lead article by Katherine Dormandy.
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@nath_ormond @RealAtheology Will be moving 1500 books from office to home. Currently empty shelves will hold books. Games have new home in another room.
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Discussion with Dale Tuggy on *Thinking about Religion* #ThinkingAboutReligion
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The e-book has launched; the hardback will follow in a few days. #Atheism #Philosophy #Companion
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@nath_ormond @RealAtheology Yes. The research runs until the end of 2024. So far, I have been looking at theories of argumentation across a fairly wide range of disciplines, including: AI, computer science, education, history, law, marketing, political science, psychology, and others.
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Spot the atheists: George Eliot, George Orwell, Margaret Knight, ...
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@mths_valente @KennethLPearce Joe Levine's "Purple Haze". Dave Chalmers' reply: "Hey Joe!"
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New issue of APR, curated by Lisa Ellis. Lead article by Avner de Shalit ("Political Philosophy and what People Think"). Commentaries from Bas van der Vossen, Colleen Murphy, Johnathan Wolff, and others.
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@waldenpod @MNaturalism @TheoreticalBS @rjonesx Something like this: a domain ceases to be merely philosophical once we have and apply methods in that domain that are capable of producing expert consensus on a significant core of questions in that domain.
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@AApologetics Yes. In hindsight, I wish I'd adopted some other way of dealing with the problems posed by the panoply of competing conceptions of God.
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Monash University Red Team received third place and a bronze medal in the inaugural Tertiary Ethics Olympiad on Tuesday, 4 October.
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@SteveMcRae_ @AstroKirsten I am also pleased about this.
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@RebeccaBuxton A reductio
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New book edited by Andrea Vestrucci.
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The 25th. World Congress of Philosophy will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in July 2023, hosted by the Australasian Association of Philosophy #AAPhilosophy #MelbConventions #MCEC #MonArts
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Australasian Philosophical Review, Volume 3, Issue 4: Women and Republicanism in the Eighteenth Century. Curated by Jacqui Broad. Lead article (and authorial reply) by Sandrine Berges. Check it out!
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APR 6.1 has landed. It is curated by Krist Vaesen and Dorothy Rogers. The lead article--"Grace de Laguna's Analytical and Speculative Philosophy"--is by Joel Katzav.
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Call for commentaries: Heidegger, Aristotle and the Ineffectual
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Volume 3, Issue 2 of the *Australasian Philosophical Review* has appeared. The topic is Plato's *Euthydemus*. The curator is Fiona Leigh. The lead author is M. M. McCabe.
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Watching Q&A on JDI. I expect that it would be pretty straightforward to use corpus matching to identify contributors to JDI. If that is not true now, it will surely be true in the near future.
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Excellent new issue of APR, curated by Catriona Mackenzie and Katrina Hutchison, with lead article by Miranda Fricker:
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@veganbyuatheist @KennethLPearce @dustin_crummett I'd probably go better at stone-walling than at fencing.
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New issue of *Australasian Philosophical Review* on hate speech and hidden harms. Curated by Sarah Sorial and Sam Shpall. Lead article by Mary Kate McGowan.
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@KennethLPearce Group A: mereological nihilism; eliminative materialism; Berkeleian idealism; Humeanism about causation; concrete modal realism; presentism. Group B: mereological universalism; moral error theory; mathematical fictionalism Have been tempted by Group B; never by Group A.
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Public opinion running strongly against the Bureau of Meteorology rebrand: 🎵It's the BoM, the BoM, the BoM that will bring us together.🎵
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7 issues of the *APR* at copyediting or proofing stage. Many good things in the works. Forthcoming lead authors: a bunch of philosophers of biology; Susan James; Yong Huang; Nicole Vincent; Danielle Celermajer; Tim Crane; Jenan Ismail; Dan Zahavi; Tzu-Wei Hung; and Gila Sher.
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APR4.4 is out. Curated by Garrett Cullity. Lead author: John Broome. Lead Article 'Rationality versus Normativity'. Commentaries: Nomy Arpaly; Hille Paakkunainen; Benjamin Kiesewetter; Julia Markovits; Krister Bykvist; Nathan Howard; Paul Oppenheimer; and more.
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Australasian Philosophical Review: Call for Proposals for Open Peer Commentaries. Theme: *Ontology and Intentionality * Lead Author: *Tim Crane - *On the Explanation of Intentionality* Details on the APR website, * <>*
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Let's see how this goes #myfirstTweet
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@_Hayyan_Sheikh_ I would say: I want to know more about what you mean by "foundations of reality". I would also say: I want to know more about what kind of discussion you have in mind: are you thinking of examining what others have said on this topic?
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APR5.4: Curator: Hui-Chieh Loy. Lead article: Kwong-Loi Shun: "Anger, Compassion, and the Distinction Between First and Third Person". Commentaries: Chan Sin Yee; David B. Wong; Michael Slote; R. Jay Wallace; Daniel Telech; Brandon Yip; Dobin Choi; Lee Wilson; and Liu Pengbo
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APR5.3: Curated by Sam Baron. Lead article by Craig Callender: "The Normative Standard for Future Discounting". Commentaries by: Preston Greene; Till Grune-Yanoff; Katie Steele; Andrew Latham+Kristie Miller+James Norton; Ian Robertson; and Tim Smartt.
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@KennethLPearce Breakfast cereal collectibles
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Great performance by @RaihanIsmailANU
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#AAHFellow @OppyGraham introduces @RaihanIsmailANU who will deliver the 8th Academy Hancock Lecture ‘Hybrid civilisations or clash of civilisations? Revisiting the Muslim other’ #AAHSymposium
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Senator Birmingham rejected eleven humanities ARC grants (DECRAs and FFs). #AcademicFreedom #HumanitiesMatter
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@JBTweets83 @SteveMcRae_ Here is some information about dying and rising gods. Apparently, there are many cultures that have believed in dying (and not rising) gods. It is much harder to find cases of creator gods who die and do not rise again:
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@BissetteHunter Yes. I advised the PhDs of John Maher OMI and Mark Edwards OMI on divine eternity. I advised the Honours Thesis, MA and PhD of Mark Saward on, respectively, petitionary prayer, fine-tuning, and theistic idealism. There are others I could add to this list.
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New call for proposals for open peer commentaries at the Australasian Philosophical Review. The issue is focussed on the philosophy of Grace De Laguna.
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What Norms and Values Define Excellence in Philosophy of Religion? #PhilosophyOfReligion
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@seanddotmedotuk @Helenreflects @gordoning Mostly seen as a time for cultivating: (a) over-indulgence and over-consumption; (b) artificial pursuit of junk material possessions; (c) resentful covetousness of the junk material possessions of others; (d) dangerously corrupt selfishness; and (e) desire for money and power.
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@BissetteHunter If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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@lastpositivist Except that her version is the original.
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@Helenreflects Bertrand Russell claimed that, once *Principia* was completed, he was thereafter unable to do any formal work at all.
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The team consisted of Philosophy students Bridgette Baini, Britney Pham, Sarah Stancombe, Noah Martin and Alexa Yao, coached by Monash Philosophy teaching staff James Kent and Alex Cain.
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@seanddotmedotuk @Helenreflects @gordoning Family. More family. Sunshine. Bare feet. Backyard cricket. Board games. Quizzes. Artichokes. Asparagus. Avocados. Berries. Breathless nights. Summer songs. Sleep.
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@BissetteHunter Among those, I should mention Nick Trakakis. When I supervised his PhD, on Rowe's argument from evil, he was a theist. And, when Kirk Lougheed was at Monash, I supervised his PhD on the epistemology of religious disagreement.
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APR 6.2 is out. Curated by Matheson Russell. Lead article by Glen Pettigrove. Commentaries: Bridget Clarke; Kristján Kristjánsson; Andrew Pinsent; Nancy E Snow; Rebecca Stangl; Simon Burgess; Garrett Cullity; Jörg Löschke; and Joe Ulatowski & David Lumsden.
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@snarehead365 If there is an initial state of natural reality, then that’s where and when causal reality began.
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Of the 1 percent, by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent http://t.co/NrRRvLxIeF #TheGreatDivide
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A rationale for free speech ... #TanerEdis
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Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it http://t.co/qa9ASmznMS #Bigotry
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@SteveMcRae_ JDI = Journal of Dangerous Ideas. Q&A is an OZ TV show. Tonight, Peter Singer (the editor of JDI) took part in a Q&A panel discussing whether it is good that JDI allows authors to publish anonymously.
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APR 6.3 is out. Curated by Andrew Benjamin. Lead article by Dimitris Vardoulakis. Commentaries by: Charlotta Weigelt; Ian Alexander Moore; Adriel M. Trott; Richard Lee; Marilyn Stendera; Roland Végső; Lachlan Liesfield; Bernardo Ainbinder; and Martin Black.
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the awful marriage #NoWords
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There are many different arguments for the existence of God. For each one there is the question whether it is any good. #NotSoSmall
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Some US Christians don't really support religious freedom *for all*? Who'd have thunk it! http://t.co/ztxZ53GKbq #Satanism
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@EronFas I did not come to my view by thinking about QM. Someone who came to a somewhat similar view via thinking about Everettian interpretation of QM is Alistair Wilson. See his book: The Nature of Contingency.
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Summed up in two words "less fair" #PrimeMiniscule
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"We are self-sorting ourselves into hardened, impenetrable citadels of ideological sameness" http://t.co/4IB9A1Mb0R #Stand
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when to stop .... #DontStop
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Tamar Gendler becomes Dean of Arts and Sciences at Yale. http://t.co/D4icXSzkqO http://t.co/8praLmUWwk
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Congratulations to Rae Langton on her election to the British Academy! #waytogo
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@vigilantehorde If we suppose that independent expert consensus is the key marker of truth, then there is some truth in science, but significantly less in philosophy. The best bet, if you really hanker for truth, is probably mathematics.
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APR4.3 is out. Curator: Jo Faulkner. Lead Author: Genevieve Lloyd. (Lead Article: 'Reconsidering Spinoza's "Rationalism"'). Invited Commentaries: Moira Gatens; Sandra Field; Knox Peden. Open Commentaries: Michael Rosenthal; Anne Newstead; Walter Veit; Steph Marston.
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"The institutions supporting literary criticism are callous and morally incoherent" #SellingTheirPlasma
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@yujinnagasawa @RFupdates @GaskinHilary @CambUP_PHILNYUK Excited to be part of it. Great work Yujin!
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@Helenreflects Yes. I ask students to prepare: read textbook, watch 60 minutes of videos I have prepared, and think about set questions. In 2 hour class, I use Zoom's breakout room function for small group (3-4) discussion + report back (x4). I have 40 students. I think it is working well.
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