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Select Articles/Book Chapters

“Disability and Suffering” (with Hilary Yancey), in The T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil, edited by Mattias Grebe and Johannes Grossl (T&T Clark, 2023), 524–537. (PDF)

“Disability and Social Epistemology” (with Joel Michael Reynolds), in The Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, eds. Jennifer Lackey and Aidan McGlynn (forthcoming). (PDF)

“Weighing Compatibilism and Libertarianism in Analytic Theology,” in Theological Perspectives on Free Will: Compatibility, Community, Christology, edited by Olli-Pekka Vainio and Aku Visala (Routledge Studies in Analytic and Systematic Theology, 2023): 47–74. (PDF)

“Disability and Disproportionate Disadvantage,” in Philosophers Respond to COVID-19, ed. by Anna Gotlib (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022): 77–99. (PDF)

“Toward an Account of Lamenting Well,” in Reaching for God: New Theological Essays on Prayer, ed. by Oliver D. Crisp, James M. Arcadi, and Jordan Wessling (OUP: 2022): 95–115. (PDF)

“Denying a Unified Concept of Disability,” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 47 (2022), 583–596. (PDF)

“Agency and Disability,” in The Routledge Handbook of Agency, ed. by Luca Ferrero (Routledge, 2022): 159–168. (PDF)

“Holding Close both the Wonder and the Wounds,” Journal of Disability & Religion 26.2(2022),179–190. (PDF)

Free Will in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion,” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, ed. by Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021). (PDF)

“What are Intended as Systems of Support become Systems of Struggle,” Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture 3.1 (2021), 38–50. (online here)

“Disability in History, Disability in Eschatology,” in Philosophical Engagements with N.T. Wright: History and Eschatology, edited by Joshua Cockayne and Mitchell Mallary (Routledge, forthcoming). (penultimate draft)

“Sin in the Christian Tradition,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2021): (online here)

“Emotion, Executive Dysfunction, and Agency: Can Emotional Disability Impair an Agent’s Likelihood of Virtue?” in Faith & Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy in Aid of Becoming Good, edited by Adam C. Pelser and W. Scott Cleveland (Oxford University Press, 2021): 51–79. (PDF)

“Defiant Afterlife,” in Voices from the Edge, ed. by Michelle Panchuk and Mike Rea (Oxford: 2020): 206-231. (PDF)

“Disabled Beatitude,” in The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion, ed. by Blake Hereth and Kevin Timpe (Routledge: 2019): 241-263. (PDF)

“Christian Philosophy and Disability Advocacy,” in Christian Philosophy: Conceptions, Continuations, and Challenges, ed. J. Aaron Simmons (Oxford University Press, 2018): 153–164. (penultimate draft)

“Public Policy and the Institutional Evil of Special Education,” The Palgrave Handbook on Philosophy and Public Policy, ed. by David Boonin (Palgrave MacMillan: 2018): 249-262. (PDF)

Broader Vision: Fully Embracing People with Disabilities in Christian Higher Education,” Perspectives May/June (2019) (PDF)

“Disability and the Theodicy of Defeat” (with Aaron Cobb), Journal of Analytic Theology 5 (2017): 100-120 (online here)

“Leeway vs. Sourcehood Approaches,” in The Routledge Companion to Free Will, ed. Meghan Griffith, Neil Levy, and Kevin Timpe (PDF)

“Introduction to Free Will and Theism” (with Dan Speak), Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns, ed. Kevin Timpe and Dan Speak (PDF)

“God’s Freedom, God’s Character,”  in Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns, ed. Kevin Timpe and Dan Speak (PDF)

“Free Will and Naturalism: How to be a Libertarian and a Naturalist Too” (with Jon Jacobs), in The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism, ed. by Kelly James Clark (PDF)

“Freedom and the Incarnation” (with Timothy Pawl), Philosophy Compass 11.11 (2016) (PDF)

“Executive Function, Disability, and Agency,” Res Philosophica, special issue on “Philosophy of Disability,” 93.4 (2016) (PDF)

“An Argument for Limbo,” Journal of Ethics 19 (2015): 277–292 (PDF)

“Free Will and the Stages of Theological Anthropology” (with Audra Jenson), in Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology, ed. by Joshua Farris and Charles Taliaferro (PDF)

“The Best Thing in Life is Free: The Compatibility of Divine Freedom and God’s Essential Moral Perfection” in Free Will and Classical Theism: The Significance of Freedom in Perfect Being Theology, ed. Hugh McCann (PDF)

“Cooperative Grace, Cooperative Agency,” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7.3 (2015): 225-247 (PDF)

“On Analytic Theology,” Scientia et Fides 3.2 (2015:1-13) (PDF)

“‘This is Water’ and Religious Self-deception,” in Gesturing Towards Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy, ed. by Robert Bolger and Scott Korb (Continuum, 2014): 53-69 (PDF)

“Trust, Silence, and Liturgical Acts,” in Skeptical Theism: New Essays, ed. by Trent Dougherty and Justin McBrayer (OUP, 2014): 264-275 (PDF)

“Envy and Its Discontents” (with Timothy Perrine) in Virtues and Their Vices, ed. by Kevin Timpe and Craig Boyd (OUP, 2014) (PDF)

“Heavenly Freedom: A Reply to Cowan” (with Tim Pawl), Faith and Philosophy 30.2 (2013): 188-197. (PDF)

“The Arbitrariness of the Primal Sin,” in Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, volume 5, ed. Jonathan Kvanvig (Oxford University Press, 2013) (PDF)

“An Introduction to Neo-Classical Theism,” in Models of God and Other Ultimate Realities, ed. by Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher (Springer, 2013) (PDF)

“An Analogical Approach to Divine Freedom,” Proceedings of the Irish Philosophical Society (2012) (PDF)

“Tracing and the Epistemic Condition on Moral Responsibility,” Modern Schoolman (2011) (PDF)

“Free Will,” in The Continuum Companion to Metaphysics, ed. by Neil A. Manson and Bob Barnard (Continuum, 2011). (PDF)

“Demotivating Semicompatibilism,” Ideas y Valores 141 (2009): 5-20. (PDF)

“Incompatibilism, Sin, and Free Will in Heaven” (with Tim Pawl), Faith and Philosophy 26.4 (2009): 398-419. (PDF)

“Causal History Matters, but not for Individuation,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 39.1 (2009): 77-91. (PDF)

“Truthmaking and Divine Eternity,” Religious Studies 43.3 (2007): 299-315. (PDF)

“Grace and Controlling what We Do Not Cause,” Faith and Philosophy 24.3 (2007): 284-299. (PDF)

“Source Incompatibilism and its Alternatives,” American Philosophical Quarterly 44.2 (2007): 143-155. (PDF)

“Moral Character,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007). (online here)

“The Dialectic Role of the Flickers of Freedom,” Philosophical Studies 131.2 (2006): 337-368. (PDF)

“A Critique of Frankfurt-Libertarianism,” Philosophia 34.2 (2006): 189-202. (PDF)

“Free Will,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2006). (online here)

“Prayers for the Past,” Religious Studies 41.3 (2005): 305-322. (PDF)

“Disability and Social Epistemology” (with Joel Michael Reynolds), for The Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, eds. Jennifer Lackey and Aidan McGlynn (forthcoming). (PDF)

“Disability and Disproportionate Disadvantage,” in Philosophers Respond to COVID-19, ed. by Anna Gotlib (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022): 77–99. (PDF)

“Toward an Account of Lamenting Well,” forthcoming in Reaching for God: New Theological Essays on Prayer, ed. by Oliver D. Crisp, James M. Arcadi, and Jordan Wessling (OUP: 2022): 95–115. (PDF)

“Denying a Unified Concept of Disability,” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 47 (2022), 583–596. (PDF)

“Agency and Disability,” in The Routledge Handbook of Agency, ed. by Luca Ferrero (Routledge, 2022): 159–168. (PDF)

“Holding Close both the Wonder and the Wounds,” Journal of Disability & Religion 26.2(2022),179–190. (PDF)

Free Will in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion,” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, ed. by Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021). (PDF)

“What are Intended as Systems of Support become Systems of Struggle,” Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture 3.1 (2021), 38–50. (online here)

“Disability in History, Disability in Eschatology,” in Philosophical Engagements with N.T. Wright: History and Eschatology, edited by Joshua Cockayne and Mitchell Mallary (Routledge, forthcoming). (penultimate draft)

“Sin in the Christian Tradition,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2021): (online here)

“Emotion, Executive Dysfunction, and Agency: Can Emotional Disability Impair an Agent’s Likelihood of Virtue?” in Faith & Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy in Aid of Becoming Good, edited by Adam C. Pelser and W. Scott Cleveland (Oxford University Press, 2021): 51–79. (PDF)

“Defiant Afterlife,” in Voices from the Edge, ed. by Michelle Panchuk and Mike Rea (Oxford: 2020): 206-231. (PDF)

“Disabled Beatitude,” in The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion, ed. by Blake Hereth and Kevin Timpe (Routledge: 2019): 241-263. (PDF)

“Christian Philosophy and Disability Advocacy,” in Christian Philosophy: Conceptions, Continuations, and Challenges, ed. J. Aaron Simmons (Oxford University Press, 2018): 153–164. (penultimate draft)

“Public Policy and the Institutional Evil of Special Education,” The Palgrave Handbook on Philosophy and Public Policy, ed. by David Boonin (Palgrave MacMillan: 2018): 249-262. (PDF)

Broader Vision: Fully Embracing People with Disabilities in Christian Higher Education,” Perspectives May/June (2019) (PDF)

“Disability and the Theodicy of Defeat” (with Aaron Cobb), Journal of Analytic Theology 5 (2017): 100-120 (online here)

“Leeway vs. Sourcehood Approaches,” in The Routledge Companion to Free Will, ed. Meghan Griffith, Neil Levy, and Kevin Timpe (PDF)

“Introduction to Free Will and Theism” (with Dan Speak), Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns, ed. Kevin Timpe and Dan Speak (PDF)

“God’s Freedom, God’s Character,”  in Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns, ed. Kevin Timpe and Dan Speak (PDF)

“Free Will and Naturalism: How to be a Libertarian and a Naturalist Too” (with Jon Jacobs), in The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism, ed. by Kelly James Clark (PDF)

“Freedom and the Incarnation” (with Timothy Pawl), Philosophy Compass 11.11 (2016) (PDF)

“Executive Function, Disability, and Agency,” Res Philosophica, special issue on “Philosophy of Disability,” 93.4 (2016) (PDF)

“An Argument for Limbo,” Journal of Ethics 19 (2015): 277–292 (PDF)

“Free Will and the Stages of Theological Anthropology” (with Audra Jenson), in Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology, ed. by Joshua Farris and Charles Taliaferro (PDF)

“The Best Thing in Life is Free: The Compatibility of Divine Freedom and God’s Essential Moral Perfection” in Free Will and Classical Theism: The Significance of Freedom in Perfect Being Theology, ed. Hugh McCann (PDF)

“Cooperative Grace, Cooperative Agency,” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7.3 (2015): 225-247 (PDF)

“On Analytic Theology,” Scientia et Fides 3.2 (2015:1-13) (PDF)

“‘This is Water’ and Religious Self-deception,” in Gesturing Towards Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy, ed. by Robert Bolger and Scott Korb (Continuum, 2014): 53-69 (PDF)

“Trust, Silence, and Liturgical Acts,” in Skeptical Theism: New Essays, ed. by Trent Dougherty and Justin McBrayer (OUP, 2014): 264-275 (PDF)

“Envy and Its Discontents” (with Timothy Perrine) in Virtues and Their Vices, ed. by Kevin Timpe and Craig Boyd (OUP, 2014) (PDF)

“Heavenly Freedom: A Reply to Cowan” (with Tim Pawl), Faith and Philosophy 30.2 (2013): 188-197. (PDF)

“The Arbitrariness of the Primal Sin,” in Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, volume 5, ed. Jonathan Kvanvig (Oxford University Press, 2013) (PDF)

“An Introduction to Neo-Classical Theism,” in Models of God and Other Ultimate Realities, ed. by Jeanine Diller and Asa Kasher (Springer, 2013) (PDF)

“An Analogical Approach to Divine Freedom,” Proceedings of the Irish Philosophical Society (2012) (PDF)

“Tracing and the Epistemic Condition on Moral Responsibility,” Modern Schoolman (2011) (PDF)

“Free Will,” in The Continuum Companion to Metaphysics, ed. by Neil A. Manson and Bob Barnard (Continuum, 2011). (PDF)

“Demotivating Semicompatibilism,” Ideas y Valores 141 (2009): 5-20. (PDF)

“Incompatibilism, Sin, and Free Will in Heaven” (with Tim Pawl), Faith and Philosophy 26.4 (2009): 398-419. (PDF)

“Causal History Matters, but not for Individuation,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 39.1 (2009): 77-91. (PDF)

“Truthmaking and Divine Eternity,” Religious Studies 43.3 (2007): 299-315. (PDF)

“Grace and Controlling what We Do Not Cause,” Faith and Philosophy 24.3 (2007): 284-299. (PDF)

“Source Incompatibilism and its Alternatives,” American Philosophical Quarterly 44.2 (2007): 143-155. (PDF)

“Moral Character,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007). (online here)

“The Dialectic Role of the Flickers of Freedom,” Philosophical Studies 131.2 (2006): 337-368. (PDF)

“A Critique of Frankfurt-Libertarianism,” Philosophia 34.2 (2006): 189-202. (PDF)

“Free Will,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2006). (online here)

“Prayers for the Past,” Religious Studies 41.3 (2005): 305-322. (PDF)

Select Book Reviews

Review of Laura W. Ekstrom, God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2021). (online here)

Review of Anca Gheaus, Gideon Calder, and Jurgen De Wispelaere, eds., The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children, in Faith and Philosophy 37.1 (2020): 118–122. (online here)

Review of Guillaume Bignon, Excusing Sinners and Blaming God: A Calvinist Assessment of Determinism, Moral Responsibility, and Divine Involvement in Evil, in Faith and Philosophy 35.3 (2018): 373-379. (PDF)

Review of Noell Birondo and Stewart Braun, eds., Virtues Reasons (with Kaitlyn Eekhoff), in Philosophy in Review 38.1 (2018): 4-7. (PDF)

Review of Manuel Vargas’s Building Better Beings, in Ethics 124.4 (2014): 926-931. (PDF)

Review of Meghan Griffith’s Free Will: the basics, in Philosophy in Review 33.5 (2013): 378-80. (PDF)

Review of Stewart Goetz”s Freedom, Teleology, and Evil, in European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. (PDF)

Review of Michael Zimmerman’s Living with Uncertainty: The Moral Significance of Ignorance, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. (online here)

Review of Michael Rea, ed., Analytic Theology: New Essays in the Philosophy of Theology, in Religious Studies 46 (2010): 16-23. (online here)

Review of Fischer, Kane, Pereboom, and Vargas’s Four Views on Free Will, in Social Theory and Practice 35.2 (2009): 319-326. (PDF)

Select Work in Progress

[feel free to email me if you’d like to see a draft of these]

Disabled Agency (book project)

God, Dependence, and Disability (for the Cambridge Elements series)

“Ableism and Social Epistemology” (with Joel Michael Reynolds, for The Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology) draft complete

“Disability and Suffering” (with Hilary Yancey, for The T&T Clark Companion to Suffering and the Problem of Evil) draft complete

“Anger and Moral Struggle”

“Disability, Virtue, and Well-being”