Research Interests

Philosophy of Religion

Philosophical Cosmology

History of Early Modern Philosophy

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Courses Recently Taught

Problems of Evil (Fall 2008)

The Best of All Possible Worlds (Fall 2007)

The Design Argument (Spring 2006)

The Problem of Evil (Spring 2005)

Nothing (Spring 2004)

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Representative Publications

'Mere addition and the best of all possible worlds', Religious Studies.

'Cosmological fecundity', Inquiry.

'Incommensurability and the best of all possible worlds', The Monist.

'West or best? Sufficient reason in the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence', Studia Leibnitiana.

'Satisfied pigs and dissatisfied philosophers: Schlesinger on the problem of evil', Philosophical Investigations.