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Articles

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(forthcoming). “The Afterlife in African Traditional Religion: Notions of Punishment and Immortality.” Journal for the Academic Study of Religion.

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(forthcoming). “Classic Anglo-American Thought Experiments about Abortion and African Communitarianism.” Bioethics.

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(forthcoming). “Advancing Global Economic Justice in the Face of Race: Mwipikeni’s Critique of Metz’s Reformist  Normative Economics.” South Africa Journal of Philosophy. With Thaddeus Metz. [First Author]

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(forthcoming). African Personhood and the (Im)Permissibility of Euthanasia.”  Journal of Medicine & Philosophy.

 

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(forthcoming). “Cultivating Intellectual Virtues with the Epistemic Benefits of Religious Disagreement.” Philosophia Reformata.​​

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(forthcoming). “Recent Work in African Normative Theory.” Analysis.

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(2025). “Unfriendly Cases for Metz’s Modal Relational Moral Theory.” Social Theory & Practice 51 (2): 265-279.

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(2025). “African Vital Force and the Permissibility of Euthanasia.” Journal of Medical Ethics 51:247-248.

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(2025). “Rescuing the (Open) Theistic Multiverse Against Two Recent Challenges.”  Sophia 64 (2): 275-290. With Timothy Blank. [First Author]

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​(2025). “Unfriendly Cases for Metz’s Modal Relational Moral Theory.Social Theory & Practice 51 (2): 265-279.

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​(2025). “On the Argument Against Abortion from African Normative Personhood.”  Arụmarụka: Journal of  Conversational Thinking 5 (1).

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(2025). Benatar and Metz on Cosmic Meaning and Anti-NatalismThe Journal of Value Inquiry 59: 245-261.

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(2024). “Liveliness as a Theory of Meaning in Life.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association 10 (4): 797- 813.

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(2024). “African Liveliness as a Secular Moral Theory: Problems and Prospects.” The Monist 107 (3): 225-236.

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(2023). “Future Minds are Not a Challenge to Anti-Natalism: A Reply to Gould.” Bioethics 37 (2): 208-213.

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(2023). “Traditional African Religion and Non-Doxastic Accounts of Faith.” Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 12 (2): 33-54.

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(2023). “Completing the Complete Understanding Argument: A Rejoinder to Roberto Di Ceglie.” Philosophia 37 (2): 208-213.

 

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(2022). "Toward an African Theory of the Atonement." The Journal of Analytic Theology 10: 200-209.

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(2022). "Averroes, Epistemic Paternalism, and Religious Knowledge." With Joshua Harris. Philosophy East and West 72 (4): 960-972. [First Author].

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(2022). "Are Atheist Worlds Really the Best?Religious Studies 58 (2): 345-358. 

 

 

 

(2022). "The Axiology of Theism: Problems and Prospects." Philosophy Compass e12826.

 

 

 

(2022). "Molefe on the Value of Community for Personhood." South African Journal of Philosophy 41 (1): 28-36.

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(2022). "The Epistemic Benefits of Diversifying the Philosophy of Religion." European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 14 (1): 77-94.

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(2022). "God's Choice of a World." Religious Studies Archives 6: 1-12.

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(2021). "On Whether there are Grounds for Worship." Philosophia Christi 23 (2): 313-328.

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(2021). "No Fault Unbelief Defended: A Reply to Roberto Di Ceglie." Sophia 60 (2): 473-479.

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(2021). "Semantic Non-Doxastic Agnostic Religious Faith." Philosophia 49 (3): 1067-1081.

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29. (2021). “Epistemic Paternalism, Open Group Inquiry, and Religious Knowledge.” Res Philosophica 98 (2): 1-20.

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(2021). "Catherine Elgin on Peerhood and Epistemic Benefits of Disagreement." Synthese 198 (4): 3183-3202.

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(2021). "The Epistemic Benefits of Worldview Disagreement.Social Epistemology 35 (1):85-98.

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(2020). "Epistemic Elitism, Scepticism, and Diachronic Epistemic Reasons: A Rejoinder to Ranalli on Worldview Disagreement." Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 9 (11): 44-52.

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(2020). "Schellenberg's Ultimism as the Proper Object of Non-Doxastic Religion: A Reply to Palmqvist." Sophia 59 (2): 273-284.

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(2020). "Religious Disagreement, Religious Experience, and the Evil-God Hypothesis." European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12 (1): 173-190.

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(2019). “Anti-Theism, Pro-Theism, and Gratuitous Evil.” Philosophia Christi 21 (2): 101-115.

 

 

 

(2019). "On the Will Not to Believe and Axiological Atheism: A Reply to Cockayne and Warman." Sophia 58: 743-175.

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(2019). "Disagreement, Deep Time, and Progress in Philosophy." The International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 9: 285-313.

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(2019). “The Goals of Philosophy of Religion: A Reply to Ireneusz Zieminski.” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11 (1): 187-199.

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(2019). “Undermining the Axiological Solution to Divine Hiddenness.” With Perry Hendricks. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 86 (1): 3-15.

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(2019). "On How to (Not) to Argue for Preferring the Non-Existence of God." Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 58 (4): 677-699.

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(2018). “On the Axiology of a Hidden God.” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (4): 79-95.

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(2018). "Religious Commitment and the Benefits of Cognitive Diversity: A Reply to Trakakis." Sophia 57 (1): 501-513.

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(2018). "Recognition and Epistemic Injustice in the Epistemology of Disagreemen." Philosophical Forum 49 (3): 363-377.

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(2018). "The Axiological Solution to Divine Hiddenness." Ratio 31 (3): 331-341.

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(2018). “Is Religious Experience a Solution to the Problem of Religious Disagreement?Logos & Episteme IX (2): 173-197.

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(2018). “The Epistemic Value of Deep Disagreements.” Informal Logic 38 (2): 263-292.

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(2017). “The Role of Idealized Cases in the Epistemology of Disagreement.” Southwest Philosophy Review (33) 2: 251-270.

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(2017). “Anti-Theism and the Objective Meaningful Life Argument.” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review (56) 2: 337-355.

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(2017). “Indirect Epistemic Reasons and Religious Belief.” With Robert Mark Simpson. Religious Studies (53) 2: 151-169. [First Author]

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(2015). “Pro-Theism and the Added Value of Morally Good Agents.” With Myron A. Penner. Philosophia Christi (17) 1: 53-69. [Second Author]

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(2014). "Divine Creation, Modal Collapse, and the Theistic Multiverse." Sophia (53) 4: 435-446.

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Book Chapters

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(forthcoming). “The Epistemic Risks and Rewards of Promoting Interculturality about African Scholarship” In African Perspectives on Interculturality: Decolonialities, Epistemologies and Human Relations. Edited by Hamza R’boul. Routledge.

 

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(2024). “The Axiology of the African Limited-God.” Chapter. In Contemporary African Metaphysical Thought. Edited by Ada Agada, Emmanuel Ofuasia, and Bruno Yammeluan Ikuli. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 157-176.

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(2023). “Lessons from Anti-Natalism on God and Gratitude for our Existence.” In Philosophical Perspectives on Existential Gratitude: Analytic, Continental, and Religious. Edited by Joshua Harris, Kirk Lougheed, and Neal DeRoo. Bloomsbury. pp. 143-161.

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(2023). “Forward-Looking Transitional Climate Justice.” In Global Climate Justice: Theory and Practice.  Edited by  Fausto Corvino and Tiziana Andina. E-International Relations Publishing. pp. 1-10

 

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(2019). “Epistemic Injustice and Religious Experience.” In The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives on Disability, Gender, Race, and Animals. Edited by Kevin Timpe and Blake Hereth. Routledge.

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Encyclopedia Entries

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(2022). "Anti-Natalism." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 

 

(2021). "Conceptions of Faith." With Perry Hendricks. Oxford Bibliographies Online. [First Author]

 

 

(2021). “Are there Empirically Informed Solutions to the Problem of Religious Disagreement?Theological Puzzles. (Issue 3).

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(2019). “The Axiology of Theism.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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(2014)."God and Possible Worlds." With Klaas J. Kraay and Aylish Chantler. Oxford Bibliographies Online. [Third Author].

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