ROBERT MERRIHEW ADAMS — Curriculum Vitae — January 2010
Department of PhilosophyTelephone 919-402-8641
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Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125
EDUCATION:
1955-59PrincetonUniversity (A.B., philosophy, 1959)
1959-61OxfordUniversity (MansfieldCollege) (B.A., theology, 1961; M.A. 1965)
1961-62Princeton Theological Seminary (B.D. 1962)
1965-68CornellUniversity (M.A. 1967; Ph.D., philosophy, 1969)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MontaukCommunityChurch (Presbyterian), Montauk, NY, Pastor, 1962-65
ACADEMIC
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Lecturer (1968)/Assistant Professor (1969-72)of Philosophy
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA): Associate Professor (1972-76)/ Professor (1976-94) of
Philosophy/Professor Emeritus (1994- )
YaleUniversity: Visiting Professor, DivinitySchool (Spring 1988)
YaleUniversity: Professor of Philosophy and (by courtesy) of Religious Studies (1993- 2003)/
Clark Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics (1995- 2003)/Emeritus (2004-)
MansfieldCollege, Oxford: Senior Research Fellow, 2004- (non-stipendiary position)
OxfordUniversity: Visiting Professor of Philosophy, 2004-2009) (non-stipendiary position)
UNC Chapel Hill: Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy, 2009-
FIELDS OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH:
Philosophy of Religion, History of Modern Philosophy (mainly 17th and 18th centuries),
Ethical Theory, Metaphysics
FELLOWSHIPS etc.
Fellow of the BritishAcademy (2006-)
Fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences (1991- )
The Faculty Award for 1992, UCLACollege of Letters & Science
University of California President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities (1988-89)
Fellow, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, N.J. (Fall 1983 & Fall 1984)
Wilde Lecturer in Natural Religion, OxfordUniversity (Spring 1989)
National Endowment for the Humanities, Younger Humanist Fellowship (1974-75)
Gifford Lecturer, University of St. Andrews, Scotland (November 1999)
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE:
Chair, Department of Philosophy, YaleUniversity (1993-2001)
Chair, Department of Philosophy, UCLA (1975-79)
Chair, Program in the Study of Religion, UCLA (1978-79, 1985-87, 1989-93)
Board of Trustees, Princeton Theological Seminary, Member (1980- ), Chair (1996-2001),
Chair of Academic Affairs Committee (1983-96, 2009- ), Chair of Investment Committee (2004-6)
Trustee, The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation (1979- )
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Executive Committee (1995-98)
Society of Christian Philosophers, Executive Committee (1978-85), President (1981-83)
Leibniz Society of America, President (1994-98)
Robert Merrihew Adams — BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS (sole-authored)
1.The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).
2.Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
3.Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
4.A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006).
ARTICLES
1.“Anticipation and Consummation,” TheologyToday, 20 (1963), 196-211.
2.“The Logical Structure of Anselm’s Arguments,” ThePhilosophicalReview, 80 (1971), 28-54.
Translated into Hebrew in Abraham Zvie Bar-On, ed., From Parmenides to Contemporary Thinkers: Readings in Ontology, vol. I (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1977), pp. 158-178.
Reprinted as ch. 15 of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987).
3.“Has It Been Proved That All Real Existence Is Contingent?” AmericanPhilosophicalQuarterly, 8 (1971), 284-291.
Reprinted as ch. 13 of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987)
4.“Must God Create the Best?” ThePhilosophicalReview, 81 (1972), 317-332.
Reprinted in Loretta Kopelman and John C. Moskop, eds., Ethics and Mental Retardation (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1984).
Reprinted in John Perry and Michael Bratman, eds., Introduction to Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1986).
Reprinted in Thomas V. Morris, ed., TheConceptofGod (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 91-106.
Reprinted as ch. 4 of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987)
Reprinted in Baruch A. Brody, ed., Readings in the Philosophy of Religion: An Analytic Approach, 2nd edn., (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991), pp. 317-28.
Reprinted in William L. Rowe, ed., God and the Problem of Evil (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 24-37.
5.“Berkeley’s ‘Notion’ of Spiritual Substance,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 55 (1973), 47-69.
Reprinted in Walter E. Creery, ed., George Berkeley: Critical Assessments (London: Routledge, 1991), Vol. III, pp. 424-44.
6.“Middle Knowledge” (an abstract), TheJournalofPhilosophy, 70 (1973), 552-554.
7.“A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical Wrongness,” in Gene Outka and John P. Reeder, Jr., eds., ReligionandMorality (Doubleday Anchor, 1973), pp. 318-347.
Reprinted, in part, in Paul W. Tayler, ed., Problems of Moral Philosophy, third edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1978), pp. 595-612.
Reprinted, entirely, in Paul Helm, ed., Divine Commands and Morality (Oxford University Press, 1981), pp. 83-108.
Reprinted, in part, in Louis P. Pojman, ed. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1987), pp. 525-537.
Reprinted as ch. 7 of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987).
Reprinted in E.D. Klemke, ed., To Believe or Not to Believe: Readings in the Philosophy of Religion (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991), pp. 576-95.
Reprinted in Thomas L. Carson and Paul K. Moser, eds., Morality and the Good Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Reprinted in Taliaferro, Charles, and Paul Griffiths, eds., Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), pp. 462-76.
8.“Theories of Actuality,” Noûs, 8 (1974), 211-231.
Reprinted in Michael J. Loux, ed., The Possible and the Actual (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), pp. 190-209.
Translated into Romanian by Ella Muntean in Krisis: Revista de filosofie, No. 7 (1998): 140-55
Reprinted in Michael Tooley, ed., Analytical Metaphysics: A Collection of Essays, vol. 4, Particulars, Actuality, and Identity over Time (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999), pp. 321-41
Reprinted (in whole or in part) in French translation in Emmanuelle Garcia and Frédéric Nef, eds., Métaphysique contemporaine: propriétés, mondes possibles et personnes (Paris: Vrin, 2007).
9.“Where Do Our Ideas Come From? - Descartes vs. Locke,” in Stephen P. Stich, ed., InnateIdeas (University of California Press, 1975), pp. 71-87.
10.“Kierkegaard’s Arguments against Objective Reasoning in Religion,” TheMonist, Vol. 60, No. 2 (April, 1976), 228-243.
Reprinted in Steven M. Cahn and David Shatz, eds., ContemporaryPhilosophyofReligion (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), pages 213-228.
Reprinted in John Perry and Michael Bratman, eds., IntroductiontoPhilosophy (Oxford University Press, 1986).
Reprinted in Louis P. Pojman, ed. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1987), pp. 408-418.
Reprinted as ch. 2 of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987).
Reprinted in Baruch A. Brody, ed., Readings in the Philosophy of Religion: An Analytic Approach, 2nd edn., (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991), pp. 48-62.
Reprinted in Melville Y. Stewart, ed., Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology of Contemporary Views (Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1996), pp. 33-48.
Reprinted in David Shatz, ed., Philosophy and Faith: A Philosophy of Religion Reader (New York: McGraw Hill, 2002), pp. 497-507.
Reprinted in Steven M. Cahn, ed., ten Essential Texts in the Philosophy of Religion: Classics and Contemporary Issues (New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2004).
11.“Motive Utilitarianism,” TheJournalofPhilosophy, 73 (1976), 467-481.
Reprinted in Jonathan Glover, ed., UtilitarianismandItsCritics (New York: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 236-49.
Reprinted in James Rachels, ed., Ethical Theory 2: Theories about How We Should Live (OxfordReadings in Philosophy) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 50-63.
12.“Middle Knowledge and the Problem of Evil,” TheAmericanPhilosophicalQuarterly, 14 (1977), 109-117.
Reprinted as ch. 6 of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987).
Reprinted in Marilyn McCord Adams and Robert Merrihew Adams, eds., TheProblemofEvil (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 110-25.
German translation, “Mittleres Wissen und das Problem des Übels,” in Christoph Jäger, ed., Analytische Religionsphilosophie (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1998), pp. 253-72.
Reprinted in William Hasker, David Basinger, and Eef Dekker, eds., Middle Knowledge: Theory and Applications (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 35-50.
13.“Critical Study: TheNatureofNecessity (A. Plantinga),” Noûs, 11 (1977), 175-191.
14.“Leibniz’s Theories of Contingency,” RiceUniversityStudies, 63, No. 4 (Fall 1977), pp. 1-41.
Reprinted in Michael Hooker, ed., Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive Essays (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982), pp. 243-283.
Reprinted in Vere Chapell, ed., Essays on Early Modern Philosophers, Vol. 12, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Part I, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1992), pp. 1-41.
Reprinted in Roger Woolhouse, ed., Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Critical Assessments, Vol. 1 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1994), pp. 28-73.
15.“Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity,” The Journal of Philosophy, 76 (1979), 5-26.
Reprinted in ThePhilosopher’sAnnual for 1979.
Reprinted in Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, eds., Metaphysics: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), pp. 172-83.
Reprinted in Michael Tooley, ed., Analytical Metaphysics: A Collection of Essays, vol. 4, Particulars, Actuality, and Identity over Time (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999), pp. 1-22.
Reprinted in Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas, eds., Metaphysics: A Guide and Anthology (OxfordUniversity Press, 2004), pp. 161-78.
Reprinted, in a Hungarian translation by Katalin Farkas, in Katalin Farkas and Ferenc Huoranszki, eds., Modern Metafizikai Tanulmányok (Budapest: Eötvös University Press, 2004), pp. 69-89.
16.“Existence, Self-Interest, and the Problem of Evil,” Noûs, 13 (1979), 53-65.
Reprinted as ch. 5 in Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).
Reprinted in Ann Loades and Loyal D. Rue, eds., Contemporary Classics in Philosophy of Religion (Lasalle, Illinois: Open Court, 1991), pp. 217-29.
17.“Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again,” JournalofReligiousEthics, 7 (1979), 66-79.
Reprinted, in part, in Paul Helm, ed., Divine Commands and Morality (Oxford University Press, 1981), pp. 109-119.
Reprinted as ch. 9 of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987).
Reprinted in Russ Shafer-Landau, ed., Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2007), pp. 242-47.
18.“Autonomy and Theological Ethics,” ReligiousStudies, 15 (1979), pp. 191-194.
Reprinted as ch. 8 of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987).
Reprinted in Baruch A. Brody, ed., Readings in the Philosophy of Religion: An Analytic Approach, 2nd edn., (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991, pp. 503-507.
19.“Benevolence and Pleasure,” TheReformedJournal, 29 (1979), 13-14.
20.“Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief,” in C.F. Delaney, ed., Rationality and Religious Belief (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 116-140.
Reprinted as ch. 10 of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987).
Reprinted, in part, in Kelly James Clark, ed., Readings in the Philosophy of Religion (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2000), pp. 70-78.
21.“Pure Love,” Journal of Religious Ethics, 8, No. 1 (1980), pp. 83-99.
Reprinted as ch. 12 of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987).
Reprinted in Taliaferro, Charles, and Paul Griffiths, eds., Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), pp. 493-503.
22.“The Annointing at Bethany,” Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 1980, pp. 51-53.
23.“Actualism and Thisness,” Synthese, 49 (1981), 3-41.
Reprinted in ThePhilosopher’sAnnual for 1981.
Reprinted in Michael Tooley, ed., Analytical Metaphysics: A Collection of Essays, vol. 4, Particulars, Actuality, and Identity over Time (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999), pp. 343-81.
24.“Phenomenalism and Corporeal Substance in Leibniz,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 8 (1983), 217-257.
Reprinted in Vere Chapell, ed., Essays on Early Modern Philosophers, Vol. 12, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Part I, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1992), pp. 43-83.
Reprinted in Derk Pereboom, ed., The Rationalists: Critical essays on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), pp. 223-271.
25.“Knowledge and Self: A Correspondence between Robert M. Adams and Hector-Neri Castaneda,” in James E. Tomberlin, ed., Agent, Language and the Structure of the World: Essays Presented to Hector-Neri Castaneda, with His Replies (Hackett Publishing Company, 1983), pp. 293-309.
26.“Divine Necessity,” Journal of Philosophy, 80 (1983), 741-752.
Reprinted in Thomas V. Morris, ed., TheConceptofGod (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 41-53.
Reprinted as ch. 14 of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987).
Reprinted in William L. Rowe and William J. Wainwright, eds., Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, third edition (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1998), pp. 12-19.
27.“The Virtue of Faith,” Faith and Philosophy, Vol. I, (1984), 3-15.
Reprinted as ch. 1 of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987).
Section III (pp. 9-12) reprinted in Paul Helm, ed., Faith and Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 378-82.
28.“Saints,” The Journal of Philosophy, 81(1984), 392-401.
Reprinted in Robert B. Kruschwitz and Robert C. Roberts, eds., The Virtues: Contemporary Essays on Moral Character (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1987), pp. 153-160.
Reprinted as ch. 11 of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987).
29.“Predication, Truth, and Trans-World Identity in Leibniz,” in How Things Are: Studies in Predication and the History and Philosophy of Science, ed. by James Bogen and James E. McGuire (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985), pp. 235-283.
30.“Plantinga on the Problem of Evil,” in James Tomberlin and Peter van Inwagen, eds., AlvinPlantinga (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985), pp. 225-255.
A portion reprinted in William Hasker, David Basinger, and Eef Dekker, eds., Middle Knowledge: Theory and Applications (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 218-21.
31.“Involuntary Sins,” The Philosophical Review, 94 (1985), 3-31.
Reprinted in ThePhilosopher’sAnnual for 1985.
32.“The Problem of Total Devotion,” in Robert Audi and William Wainwright, eds., Rationality, Religious Belief, and Moral Commitment (Cornell University Press, 1986), pp. 169-94.
Reprinted in Neera Kapur Badhwar, ed., Friendship: A Philosophical Reader (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994), pp. 108-32.
33.“Time and Thisness,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 11 (1986), 315-329.
Reprinted in Joseph Almog, John Perry, and Howard Wettstein, eds., ThemesfromKaplan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 23-42.
34.“Berkeley and Epistemology,” in Ernest Sosa, ed. Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley (Reidel, 1987), pp. 143-61.
35.“The Leap of Faith,” first published as ch. 3 (pp. 42-47) of Adams, TheVirtueofFaith (1987).
36.“Flavors, Colors, and God,” first published as ch. 16 (pp.243-262) of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).
Reprinted in R. Douglas Geivett and Brendan Sweetman, eds., Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 225-240.
37.“Divine Commands and the Social Nature of Obligation,” Faith and Philosophy, 4 (1987), 262-275.
Reprinted in Michael Beaty, Carlton Fisher, and Mark Nelson, eds., Christian Theism and Moral Philosophy (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1998), pp. 47-62.
38.“Vocation,” Faith and Philosophy, 4 (1987), 448-62.
39.“Presumption and the Necessary Existence of God,” Noûs, 22 (1988), 19-32.
40.“Common Projects and Moral Virtue,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 13 (1988), 297-307.
41.“Christian Liberty,” in Thomas V. Morris, ed., Philosophy and the Christian Faith (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988), pp. 151-71.
42.“Reply: Cobb on Ultimate Reality,” in Linda J. Tessier, ed., ConceptsoftheUltimate (London: Macmillan, 1989), pp. 52-54.
43.“Should Ethics Be More Impersonal? A Critical Notice of Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons,” The Philosophical Review, 98 (1989), 439-84.
Reprinted in Jonathan Dancy, ed, Reading Parfit (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997), pp. 251-89.
44.“Reply to Kvanvig,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 50 (Dec. 1989), 299-301.
45.“The Knight of Faith,” Faith and Philosophy, 7 (1990), 383-95.
46.“An Anti-Molinist Argument,” Philosophical Perspectives, 5 (1991), 343-53.
Reprinted in William Hasker, David Basinger, and Eef Dekker, eds., Middle Knowledge: Theory and Applications (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 118-27.
47.“Platonism and Naturalism: Options for a Theocentric Ethics,” in Joseph Runzo, ed., Ethics, Religion, and the Good Society: New Directions in a Pluralistic World (Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992), pp. 22-42.
48.“Idolatry and the Invisibility of God,” in Shlomo Biderman and Ben Ami Scharfstein, eds., Interpretation in Religion (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992), pp. 39-52.
49.“Miracles, Laws of Nature, and Causation,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 66 (1992): 207-224.
50.“Religious Ethics in a Pluralistic Society,” in Gene Outka and John P. Reeder, Jr., eds., Prospects for a Common Morality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), pp. 93-113.
51.“Religion after Babel,” in Arvind Sharma, ed., God, Truth, and Reality: Essays in Honour of John Hick (London: Macmillan, 1993), pp. 62-71.
52.“Truth and Subjectivity,” in Eleanore Stump, ed., Reasoned Faith: Essays in Philosophical Theology in Honor of Norman Kretzmann (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 5-41.
53.“Prospects for a Metaethical Argument for Theism: A Response to Stephen J. Sullivan,” in Journal of Religious Ethics, 21 (1993): 313-18.
54.“Form und Materie bei Leibniz: die mittleren Jahre,” in StudiaLeibnitiana, 25 (1993): 132-52.
55.“Leibniz and the Limits of Mechanism,” in Leibniz und Europa: VI. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongreß: VorträgeI. Teil (Hannover: Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesellschaft, 1994), pp. 1-8.
56.“Theodicy and Divine Intervention,” in Thomas F. Tracy, ed., The God Who Acts: Philosophical and Theological Explorations (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994), pp. 31-40.
57.“Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,” in Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, eds., ACompanion to Metaphysics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 268-71.
58.“Religious Disagreements and Doxastic Practices,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 54 (1994): 885-90.
59.“Leibniz’s Examination of the Christian Religion,” Faith and Philosophy, 11 (1994): 517-46.
60.“Moral Faith,” The Journal of Philosophy, 92 (1995): 75-95.
61.“Introductory Note to *1970” [i.e. to Gödel’s “Ontological Proof”] in Kurt Gödel, Collected Works, Vol. 3, Solomon Feferman et al., eds., (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 388-402.
62.“Moral Horror and the Sacred,” Journal of Religious Ethics, 23 (1995): 201-224.
63.“Agape,” “possible worlds,” “theodicy,” and “transcendence” in Robert Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 12, 633-34, 794-95, 807-8.
64.“The Concept of a Divine Command,” in D.Z. Phillips, ed., Religion and Morality (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), pp. 59-80.
65.“Philosophy of Religion,” in Donald M. Borchert, ed., The Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Supplement (New York: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 427-31.
66.“Qualia,” Faith and Philosophy, 12 (1995 [in fact, 1996]): 472-74.
67.“Analytical Philosophy and Theism: Reflections on Analytical Philosophical Theology,” in William J. Wainwright, ed., God, Philosophy, and Academic Culture: A Discussion between Scholars in the AAR and the APA (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996), pp. 79-87.
68.“Response to Carriero, Mugnai, and Garber,” Leibniz Society Review, 6 (1996): 107-25 (part of Symposium on Robert Merrihew Adams’s Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist).
69.“The Pre-established Harmony and the Philosophy of Mind,” in Roger S. Woolhouse, ed., Leibniz’s “New System” (1695) (Lessico Intellettuale Europeo, LXVIII; Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1996), pp. 1-13.
70.“Schleiermacher on Evil,” Faith and Philosophy, 13 (1996): 563-83.
71.“Atoning Transactions,” in Stephen T. Davis, ed., Philosophy and Theological Discourse (London: Macmillan, 1997), pp. 98-101.
72.“Thisness and Time Travel,” Philosophia, 25 (1997): 407-15.
73.“Critical Study: Sleigh’s Leibniz & Arnauld: A Commentary on Their Correspondence,” Noûs, 31 (1997): 266-77.
74.“Things in Themselves,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 57 (1997): 801-25.
Reprinted in The Philosopher’s Annual, 20 (1997): 1-24.
75.“Symbolic Value,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 21 (1997): 1-15.
76.“Self-Love and the Vices of Self-Preference,” Faith and Philosophy, 15 (1998): 500-513.
77.“Original Sin: A Study in the Interaction of Philosophy and Theology,” in Francis J. Ambrosio, ed., The Question of Christian Philosophy Today (New York: Fordham University Press, 1999), pp. 80-104 (with questions and answers from conference discussion, pp. 104-110).
Reprinted in Oliver Crisp, ed., A Reader in Contemporary Philosophical Theology (London: T & T Clark, 2009), pp. 229-53.
78.“Stewardship or Generosity?” in Wallace M. Alston, Jr., ed., Theology in the Service of the Church: Essays in Honor of Thomas W. Gillespie (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000), pp. 12-18.
79.“Leibniz’s Conception of Religion,” in The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 7 (Bowling Green, Ohio: PhilosophyDocumentationCenter, 2000), pp. 57-70.
80.“Reading the Silences, Questioning the Terms: A Response to the Focus on Eighteenth-Century Ethics,” in Journal of Religious Ethics, 28 (2000): 281-284.
81.“God, Possibility, and Kant,” in Faith and Philosophy, 17 (2000): 425-440.
82.“Holy Places,” in The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 22 (2001): 11-15.
83.“Scanlon’s Contractualism: Critical Notice of T. M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other,” in The Philosophical Review, 110 (2001 [in fact 2002]): 563-86.
84.“Précis of Finite and Infinite Goods” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 64 (2002): 439-44 (part of a Book Symposium on Finite and Infinite Goods).
85.“Responses” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 64 (2002): 475-90 (part of a Book Symposium on Finite and Infinite Goods).
86.“Science, Metaphysics, and Reality,” in Hans Poser, ed., VII. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongreß: Nihil sine ratione, Nachtragsband (Hannover: Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesellschaft e.V., 2002), pp. 50-64.
87.“The Silence of God in the Thought of Martin Buber,” Philosophia, 30 (2003): 51-68.
88.“Anti-Consequentialism and the Transcendence of the Good,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 67 (2003): 114-32.
89.“Voluntarism and the Shape of a History,” Utilitas, 16 (2004): 124-32.
90.“Moral Necessity.” In Donald Rutherford and J. A. Cover, eds., Leibniz: Nature and Freedom (New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2005), pp. 181-93.
91.“Human Nature, Christian Vocation, and the Sexes.” In Nicholas Coulton, ed., The Bible, the Church and Homosexuality (London: Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd, 2005), pp. 100-113.
92.“Faith and Religious Knowledge.” In Jacqueline Mariña, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2005), pp. 35-51.
93.“How Can I Give You Up, O Ephraim?” Theology Today, 63 (2006): 88-93.
94.“Love and the Problem of Evil.” Philosophia, 34 (2006 — actually 2007): 243-51.
Russian translation Пюбовь и проблема зла in V. K. Shokhin, ed., Проблема зла и теодицея (Moscow, 2006), pp. 39-53.
95.“Idealism Vindicated.” In Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman, eds., Persons: Human and Divine (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), pp. 35-54.
96.“The Priority of the Perfect in the Philosophical Theology of the Continental Rationalists.” In Michael Ayers, ed., Rationalism, Platonism and God: A Symposium on Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2007) (Proceedings of the BritishAcademy, 149), pp. 91-116.
97.“A Philosophical Autobiography.” In Samuel Newlands and Larry M. Jorgensen, eds., Metaphysics and the Good: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2009), pp. 16-32.
98.“The Theological Ethics of the Young Rawls and Its Background.” In John Rawls, A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith, with On My Religion, ed. by Thomas Nagel with commentary by Thomas Nagel, Joshua Cohen, and Robert Merrihew Adams (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp. 24-101.
99.“Conflict.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 83 (2009), pp. 115-32.
100.“The Reception of Leibniz’s Philosophy in the Twentieth Century.” In G. A. J. Rogers, Tom Sorell, and Jill Kraye, eds., Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth Century Philosophy. (New York: Routledge, 2010 —bound copy received 12 Sept. 2009), pp. 309-14.