Peter van Inwagen

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Peter van Inwagen

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#162

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#407

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#70

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Philosophy of Religion

#13

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#13

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Metaphysics

#19

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#39

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#12

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Epistemology

#79

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#103

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#41

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According to Wikipedia, Peter van Inwagen is an American analytic philosopher and the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a research professor of philosophy at Duke University each spring. He previously taught at Syracuse University, earning his PhD from the University of Rochester in 1969 under the direction of Richard Taylor. Van Inwagen is one of the leading figures in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of action. He was the president of the Society of Christian Philosophers from 2010 to 2013.

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Peter van Inwagen's Published Works

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An Essay on Free Will. (1984) (601)
THE DOCTRINE OF ARBITRARY UNDETACHED PARTS (1981) (233)
The incompatibility of free will and determinism (1975) (232)
Free Will Remains a Mystery (2005) (173)
Will, freedom, and power (1975) (170)
The Problem of Evil (2006) (135)
Identity, Consciousness and Value. (1992) (125)
Time and Cause (1980) (115)
How to Think about the Problem of Free Will (2008) (109)
Symposia Papers: Four-Dimensional Objects (1990) (94)
Composition as Identity (1994) (90)
WHEN IS THE WILL FREE (1989) (90)
Being, existence, and ontological commitment (2014) (82)
Materialism and the Psychological‐Continuity Account of Personal Identity (2008) (81)
The possibility of resurrection (1978) (79)
Freedom to Break the Laws (2004) (75)
Ontology, Identity, and Modality: Essays in Metaphysics (2001) (72)
8. The Magnitude, Duration, and Distribution of Evil: A Theodicy (1988) (70)
We're Right. They're Wrong (2010) (63)
Ability and responsibility. (1985) (61)
Ontological Arguments (2007) (61)
When Are Objects Parts (1987) (56)
Ability and Responsibility (1978) (54)
3. The Problem of Evil, the Problem of Air, and the Problem of Silence (2019) (50)
Against Middle Knowledge (1997) (48)
RELATIONAL vs. CONSTITUENT ONTOLOGIES (2011) (48)
Metaphysics: The Big Questions (2007) (48)
Is It Wrong Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone to Believe Anything on Insufficient Evidence? (2013) (47)
Existence, Ontological Commitment, and Fictional Entities (2005) (42)
When the will is not free (1994) (39)
McGINN ON EXISTENCE (2008) (39)
And Yet They Are Not Three Gods But One God (2009) (37)
How to Reason About Vague Objects (1988) (36)
Time and Cause Essays Presented to Richard Taylor /Edited by Peter van Inwagen. --. -- (1984) (36)
Can mereological sums change their parts (2006) (35)
Why I don't understand substitutional quantification (1981) (35)
Temporal Parts and Identity Across Time (2000) (34)
Indexicality and Actuality (1980) (32)
Van Inwagen on free will and determinism (1977) (31)
Dualism and Materialism: Athens and Jerusalem? (1995) (31)
Why Is There Anything At All (1996) (31)
Thinking about Free Will (2017) (30)
Existence: Essays in Ontology (2014) (28)
God and Other Uncreated Things (2009) (27)
Plantinga on Trans-World Identity (1985) (25)
The Problem of Evil: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in 2003 (2006) (24)
What Is the Problem of the Hiddenness of God (2001) (24)
Counterfactuals with disjunctive antecedents (1977) (24)
God Knowledge & and Mystery: Essays in Philosophical Theology (1995) (24)
Philosophers and the Words ‘Human Body’ (1980) (23)
The Eighth Philosophical Perspectives Lecture: Free Will Remains a Mystery (2000) (22)
The Incompatibility of Responsibility and Determinism (1980) (22)
Fiction and Metaphysics (1983) (21)
The Argument from Particular Horrendous Evils (2000) (21)
Some Thoughts on An Essay on Free Will (2015) (21)
A theory of properties (2014) (21)
The neo-Carnapians (2020) (21)
Ontology, Identity, and Modality (2001) (20)
The Possibility Of Resurrection And Other Essays In Christian Apologetics (1997) (19)
THE NUMBER OF THINGS (2002) (19)
Naive Mereology, Admissible Valuations, and Other Matters (1993) (19)
Fischer on Moral Responsibility (1997) (17)
Moral Responsibility, Determinism, and the Ability to do Otherwise (1999) (16)
Three Persons in One Being: On Attempts to Show that the Doctrine of the Trinity is Self-Contradictory (2003) (14)
NAMES FOR RELATIONS (2006) (13)
The Problem of Fr** W*ll (2017) (13)
Existence: Introduction: inside and outside the ontology room (2014) (12)
Comments on Peter van Inwagen's Material Beings@@@Material Beings. (1993) (12)
God and the Ethics of Belief: Is God an Unnecessary Hypothesis? (2005) (12)
Précis of Material Beings (1993) (11)
Listening to Clifford's Ghost (2009) (11)
Explaining Belief in the Supernatural (2009) (11)
THE COMPATIBILITY OF DARWINISM AND DESIGN (2003) (10)
7. The Place of Chance in a World Sustained by God (2019) (10)
IV. CREATURES OF FICTION (2011) (10)
Compatibilism defended (1977) (10)
A formal approach to the problem of free will and determinism (1974) (8)
What is an ontological category (2012) (8)
Reply to Christopher Hill (1992) (8)
A Promising Argument (2011) (8)
Moral Responsibility and Ontology (2000) (7)
I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come (2018) (7)
There is No Such Thing As Addition (1992) (7)
Modes of Being and Quantification (2014) (7)
Quine's 1946 lecture on nominalism (2014) (7)
Generalizations of Homophonic Truth-sentences (2001) (7)
On What There Isn't@@@Material Beings. (1993) (7)
Logic and the Free Will Problem (1990) (6)
Causation and the mental (2012) (6)
A Reply to Professor Hick (1997) (6)
Indeterminacy and vagueness : logic and metaphysics (2009) (6)
Dispensing with Ontological Levels: an Illustration (2014) (6)
Genes, Statistics, and Desert (2001) (5)
What Do We Refer to When We Say “I”? (2007) (5)
Reply to Reviewers (1993) (5)
Three Versions of the Ontological Argument (2012) (4)
All those in favour (1997) (4)
A definition of Chisholm's notion of immanent causation (1978) (4)
Introduction: Van Inwagen on Free Will (2017) (4)
On Always Being Wrong (1988) (4)
The Principle of Sufficient Reason and the Grand Inexplicable1 (2015) (4)
In Defense of Transcendent Universals (2016) (4)
A New Look at the Problem of Free Will and Determinism. (1986) (4)
What is naturalism? What is analytical philosophy? (2006) (4)
Against ontological structure (2015) (3)
Impotence and Collateral Damage: One Charge in Van Fraassen’s Indictment of Analytical Metaphysics (2007) (3)
Some Remarks on the Modal Ontological Argument (2009) (3)
The Inhabitants of the World (2018) (3)
The new antimetaphysicians (2014) (2)
"Who Sees Not that All the Dispute is About a Word?": Some Thoughts on Bennett’s "Proxy ‘Actualism’" (2012) (2)
Laws and Counterfactuals (1979) (2)
Was George Orwell a Metaphysical Realist (2008) (2)
C. S. Lewis’ Argument Against Naturalism (2011) (2)
Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument (2018) (2)
Plantinga ’ s Replacement Argument (2015) (2)
Nothing Is Impossible (2015) (2)
Responsibility and Free Choice@@@An Essay on Free Will. (1986) (2)
Metaphysics (Dimensions of Philosophy Series) (1993) (2)
“Carnap” and “the Polish logician” (2002) (2)
Did God Create Shapes (2015) (2)
Compatibilism and the burden of proof (1980) (2)
Author's Preface to the French Translation of An Essay on Free Will (2017) (2)
A Reply to Craig (2015) (2)
Alvin Plantinga (Profiles, Vol. 5) (1985) (2)
God’s Being and Ours (2018) (2)
Dennett on 'Could Have Done Otherwise' (1984) (1)
Comments on ‘The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’ (2010) (1)
The Local Argument from Evil (2006) (1)
Response to Slote (1990) (1)
Response to William Lane Craig’s God over All (2019) (1)
Alvin Plantinga: Plantinga's Replacement Argument (2007) (1)
Profiles: Alvin Plantinga (1985) (1)
Abstract of Comments: Abnormal Experience and Abnormal Belief (1982) (1)
C. S. Lewis’s Argument Against Naturalism (2013) (1)
The Self: the Incredulous Stare Articulated (2004) (1)
Darwinism and Design (2010) (1)
Lowe’s New Ontological Argument (2018) (1)
Do you want us to listen to you (2003) (1)
Christian Belief and Platonic Rationality (1999) (1)
A Kind of Darwinism (2010) (1)
Critical Study of Dennett's Elbow Room (2017) (1)
Begging the Question (2018) (1)
Can Science Disprove the Existence of God (2004) (1)
The Idea of God (2006) (1)
Speaking about Things Independently of Whether They Exist 1 (2020) (0)
The Sufferings of Beasts (2006) (0)
7. Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Combinations of Various Types of Physical Bonding Occur (2017) (0)
Work ( s ) : Worlds , Times and Selves . by A . N . Prior ; Kit Fine (2007) (0)
IN PHILOSOPHY , XXI ( 1997 ) Against Middle Knowledge (2002) (0)
Can variables be explained away (2014) (0)
9. The Proposed Answer (2017) (0)
Does “Ought” Imply “Can”? (2021) (0)
What there is (2005) (0)
Lehrer on determinism, free will, and evidence (1972) (0)
Before I had read the chapter on existence in Colin McGinn's book (2008) (0)
The Nature Of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal Identity (2018) (0)
1 The Paradox of Increase (0)
Traduction de "Four-dimensional Objects" de P. van Inwagen (2006) (0)
Science and Scripture (2010) (0)
8. Extreme Answers to the Special Composition Question: Nihilism and Universalism (2017) (0)
The Problem of Evil and the Argument from Evil (2006) (0)
11. The Topic of the Previous Section Continued: Paraphrase (2017) (0)
Without Proof or Evidence: Essays of O. K. Bouwsma (1987) (0)
Modal inference and the free-will problem (1991) (0)
16. Two Problerns about Personal Identity: Memory and Commissurotomy (2017) (0)
Against Analytic Existence Entailments (2019) (0)
14. The Identities of Material Objects (2017) (0)
Review: Joel I. Friedman, Was Spinoza Fooled by the Ontological Argument? (1984) (0)
What Rational Beings are there (2018) (0)
The Nature of Rational Beings (2018) (0)
12. Unity and Thinking (2017) (0)
1 Preliminary Matters 1 . 1 A Miscellany of Terms , Concepts , Definitions , and Assumptions (2015) (0)
Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds (1978) (0)
Freedom and Determinism (2008) (0)
The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will (2018) (0)
The Global Argument Continued (2006) (0)
3. Contact, a Representative Answer to the Special Composition Question (2017) (0)
5. What We Shall Not Presuppose (2017) (0)
18. The Vagueness of Identity (2017) (0)
The Way the World is (2018) (0)
Alston on ontological commitment (2014) (0)
On two arguments for compatibilism (1985) (0)
4. The General Composition Question (2017) (0)
The Rev’d Mr Bayes and the Life Everlasting (2016) (0)
Interview with Peter van Inwagen (2019) (0)
Visiting Speaker Series - Fall 2014 (2015) (0)
The Modal Ontological Argument (0)
Fictionalist Nominalism and Applied Mathematics (2014) (0)
5. Genesis and Evolution (2019) (0)
Coincidence Problems Without Properties (2020) (0)
17. The Problem of the Many and the Vagueness of Composition (2017) (0)
Why the World is (2018) (0)
The Global Argument from Evil (2006) (0)
The Hiddenness of God (2006) (0)
19. The Vagueness of Existence (2017) (0)
Meta-Ontology: A Brief Introduction (1999) (0)
6. Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Some Type of Physical Bonding Occurs (2017) (0)
Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman, eds., PERSONS: HUMAN AND DIVINE (2020) (0)
2. The Special Composition Question (2017) (0)
The Problem of Free Will Revisited (2018) (0)
Review: Charles Jarrett, The Logical Structure of Spinoza's Ethics, Part I (1984) (0)
Inwagen : Some Remarks on the Modal Ontological Argument (0)
15. Brain Transplants (2017) (0)
Why vagueness is a mystery (2002) (0)
The Place of Rational Beings in the World (2018) (0)
10. Why the Proposed Answer to the Special Composition Question, Radical Though It Is, Does Not Contradict Our Ordinary Beliefs (2017) (0)

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