Web Articles - Evangelical Philosophical Society

Universals and their Implications on Sexuality, Gender, Race, and Species

Graham Floyd unpacks the philosophical implications of what is meant by sexuality, race, and species if nominalism is true.

Souls Without Thisnesses: A Rejoinder to Joshua Farris

Dr. William Hasker, PhD

William Hasker responds to the latest response from Joshua Farris on issues related to metaphysics of souls.

A Response to Hasker’s Emergent Dualism and Emergent Creationism

Dr. Joshua R. Farris, PhD

Joshua Farris replies to William Hasker’s Philosophia Christi response to his 2018 article.

Deriving the Imago Dei from the Incarnation

Dr. Graham Floyd, PhD

Graham Floyd proposes that the doctrine of the Incarnation, coupled with the doctrine of divine omniscience and theory of divine ideas, can provide an explanation concerning what properties constitute the divine image.

Transgenderism, Human Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Properties

Dr. Benjamin H. Arbour, PhD and Dr. John R. Gilhooly, PhD

This paper argues that the narrative of transgenderism contains mutually inconsistent claims and therefore fails.

Natural Anthropology and Revealed Anthropology

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Guillon, PhD

This paper argues that that discoveries in natural anthropology can affect our understanding of revealed anthropology itself.

A Child’s Right to Religious Autonomy: A Response to Hugh LaFollette

Mrs. Amy Davison, MA

Amy Davison evaluates philosopher Hugh LaFollette’s arguments against the use of the first amendment as justification for the removal of children from public school curriculum which their Christian parents find offensive

Atonement and Anthropology: T. F. Torrance’s Doctrine of Atonement as a Test Case

Mr. Christopher G. Woznicki, MA

Christopher Woznicki illuminates T. F. Torrance’s doctrine of atonement in which human nature is an abstract universal that is instantiated by Christ and participated in by all other human beings.