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  1. Pascal's wager: pragmatic arguments and belief in God.Jeff Jordan - 2006 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Is it reasonable to believe in God even in the absence of strong evidence that God exists? Pragmatic arguments for theism are designed to support belief even if one lacks evidence that theism is more likely than not. Jeff Jordan proposes that there is a sound version of the most well-known argument of this kind, Pascal's Wager, and explores the issues involved - in epistemology, the ethics of belief, decision theory, and theology.
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    Gambling on God: Essays on Pascal’s Wager.Jeff Jordan (ed.) - 1994 - Rowman & Littlefield.
    Gambling on God brings together a superb collection of new and classic essays that provide the first sustained analysis of Pascal's Wager and the idea of an infinite utility as well as the first in-depth look at moral objections to the Wager.
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  3. Pascal's Wager: Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God.Jeff Jordan - 2007 - Religious Studies 43 (4):492-496.
     
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  4. Does Skeptical Theism Lead to Moral Skepticism?Jeff Jordan - 2006 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72 (2):403 - 417.
    The evidential argument from evil seeks to show that suffering is strong evidence against theism. The core idea of the evidential argument is that we know of innocent beings suffering for no apparent good reason. Perhaps the most common criticism of the evidential argument comes from the camp of skeptical theism, whose lot includes William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, and Stephen Wykstra. According to skeptical theism the limits of human knowledge concerning the realm of goods, evils, and the connections between values, (...)
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  5. Faith, Freedom, and Rationality: Philosophy of Religion Today.Daniel Howard-Snyder & Jeff Jordan (eds.) - 1996 - Rowman & Littlefield.
    This collection of essays is dedicated to William Rowe, with great affection, respect, and admiration. The philosophy of religion, once considered a deviation from an otherwise analytically rigorous discipline, has flourished over the past two decades. This collection of new essays by twelve distinguished philosophers of religion explores three broad themes: religious attitudes of faith, belief, acceptance, and love; human and divine freedom; and the rationality of religious belief. Contributors include: William Alston, Robert Audi, Jan Cover, Martin Curd, Peter van (...)
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    Evil and Van Inwagen.Jeff Jordan - 2003 - Faith and Philosophy 20 (2):236-239.
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    Is the no-minimum claim true? Reply to cullison: Jeff Jordan.Jeff Jordan - 2011 - Religious Studies 47 (1):125-127.
    Is the no-minimum claim true? I have argued that it is not. Andrew Cullison contends that my argument fails, since human sentience is variable; while Michael Schrynemakers has contended that the failure is my neglect of vagueness. Both, I argue, are wrong.
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    (1 other version)The Topography of Divine Love.Jeff Jordan - 2012 - Faith and Philosophy 29 (1):53-69.
    It is widely thought that God must love each and every human to the same depth and degree. This proposition plays a prominent role in influential versionsof the problem of evil, and in theistic attempts to answer the problem of evil. A common reason cited in support of the idea of God’s loving equally every human is that a perfect being would possess every great-making property and loving equally every human would be a great-making property. It is the argument of (...)
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    Is the no-minimum claim true? Reply to Cullison.Jeff Jordan - 2011 - Religious Studies 47 (1):125 - 127.
    Is the no-minimum claim true? I have argued that it is not. Andrew Cullison contends that my argument fails, since human sentience is variable; while Michael Schrynemakers has contended that the failure is my neglect of vagueness. Both, I argue, are wrong.
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    Divine love and human suffering.Jeff Jordan - 2004 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 56 (2-3):169-178.
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    Pragmatic Arguments and Belief.Jeff Jordan - 1996 - American Philosophical Quarterly 33 (4):409 - 420.
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    The Argument from Divine Hiddenness and Christian Love.Jeff Jordan - 2021 - Roczniki Filozoficzne 69 (3):87-103.
    In the paper it is argued that the conceptual resources of Christianity topple the hiddenness argument. According to the author, the variability of the divine love cast doubt on the soundness of Schellenberg’s reasoning. If we understood a perfect love as a maximal and equal concern and identification with all and for all, then a divine love would entail divine impartiality, but because of conflicts of interest between human beings the perfect, divine love cannot be maximal.
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  13. The Divine Ethic and the Argument from Evil.Jeff Jordan - 2018 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (4):193-202.
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  14. A Problem with Theistic Hope.Jeff Jordan - 2016 - Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 7:111-125.
    Consider the proposition that: A: "while it is impermissible, epistemically or morally, to believe the propositions of theism as they lack sufficient evidence, it is permissible, epistemically or morally, to hope that those propositions are true and thereby to act as if they are true." I examine a problem facing anyone who endorses (A), and advocates erecting the superstructure of theistic commitment on a base of theistic hope. Concisely put, those who endorse (A) will very likely violate the evidentialist standards (...)
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    Why Friends Shouldn’t Let Friends Be Eaten.Jeff Jordan - 2001 - Social Theory and Practice 27 (2):309-322.
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  16. Tailless Rats and the Problem of Evil.Jeff Jordan - forthcoming - American Philosophical Quarterly.
    Much of the contemporary discussion over the problem of evil is undermined by a violation of a basic conceptual truth: no rational agent would knowingly engage in self-sabotage. The argument of this paper contends that several prominent versions of the Evidential Argument from Evil are undercut as these arguments imply an incentive structure that would generate perverse outcomes. Put another way, these arguments imply that an omniscient agent would knowingly engage in self-sabotage. Interestingly, however, it is not just arguments from (...)
     
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    The Doctrine of Double Effect and Affirmative Action.Jeff Jordan - 1990 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 7 (2):213-216.
    ABSTRACT William Cooney has recently argued (The Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 6, pp. 201–204) that the social programme of affirmative action, though controversial, can be supported by the doctrine of double effect in that, according to the doctrine, responsibility falls on the side of intended consequences and not on that of unintended consequences. The point of affirmative action is to include certain disadvantaged groups; it is not to exclude other groups, though this is an inevitable and foreseeable by‐product. In (...)
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  18. Duff and the Wager.Jeff Jordan - 1991 - Analysis 51 (3):174 - 176.
  19. Is it wrong to discriminate on the basis of homosexuality?Jeff Jordan - 1995 - Journal of Social Philosophy 26 (1):39-52.
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    The “Loving Parent” analogy.Jeff Jordan - 2017 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 82 (1):15-28.
    A crucial part of William Rowe’s evidential argument from evil implies that God, like a loving parent, would ensure that every suffering person would be aware of his comforting presence. Rowe’s use of the “loving parent” analogy however fails to survive scrutiny as it implies that God maximally loves all persons. It is the argument of this paper that no one could maximally love every person; and whatever variation there is in the divine love undercuts the claim that every suffering (...)
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    Game theory and omniscience.Jeff Jordan - 2023 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 94 (1):91-106.
    Game theory studies the choices of two or more agents strategically interacting under various conditions. This paper examines two applications of omniscience in game theory. The first has to do with the paradox of altruism. The paradox of altruism results when players, by seeking to maximize the outcomes of other players, bring about inferior outcomes for all the players. Not surprisingly, an omniscient player could not find herself ensnarled in an altruistic paradox. The second application is what Steven Brams has (...)
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  22. Evil and divine sovereignty.Jeff Jordan - 2020 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 88 (3):273-286.
    Since at least the tenth century, some theists have argued that God’s sovereignty as creator exempts God from moral evaluation, and so any argument employing moral principles or the idea of God as morally perfect is fallacious. In particular, any argument contending that the occurrence of pointless evil presents strong evidence against the existence of God is flawed, as God morally owes his creation nothing. This appeal to divine sovereignty, however, fails to rescue any theistic tradition proclaiming that God loves (...)
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    The Many-Gods Objection and Pascal’s Wager.Jeff Jordan - 1991 - International Philosophical Quarterly 31 (3):309-317.
  24. The st. petersburg paradox and Pascal's Wager.Jeff Jordan - 1994 - Philosophia 23 (1-4):207-222.
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    Why negative rights only?Jeff Jordan - 1991 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 29 (2):245-255.
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    Pragmatic Arguments.Jeffrey Jordan - 1997 - In Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 425–433.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Pascal's Wager Other Prominent Pragmatic Arguments Pragmatic Arguments and the Ethics of Belief Works cited.
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    Blocking Rowe's New Evidential Argument from Evil.Jeff Jordan - 2001 - Religious Studies 37 (4):435-449.
    The first part of this paper exposits William Rowe's latest version of the evidential argument from evil. Integral to this new version is what we can call the 'level-playing field' requirement, which regulates probability values. It is the argument of the second part of this paper that either the two premises of the new version are regulated by the level-playing-field requirement or they're not. If they are both regulated, then no one would be in position to rationally accept one of (...)
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  28. Evidentialism and theistic pragmatic arguments.Jeffrey J. Jordan - 2022 - In Mark A. Lamport (ed.), The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Philosophy and Religion. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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    Hume, Tillotson, and Dialogue XII.Jeff Jordan - 1991 - Hume Studies 17 (2):125-139.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Hume, Tillotson, and Dialogue XIIJeff JordanJeff JordanUniversity of DelawareFootnotes1. 'Natural religion' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries denoted knowledge of the divine which could be had via reason or instinct, independent of any purported special revelation.2. Of the two best works on Hume's philosophy of religion, J. C. A. Gaskin, Hume's Philosophy of Religion (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, 1988); and K. Yandell, Hume's "Inexplicable Mystery": His Views on Religion (...)
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    Kenny and religious experience.Jeff Jordan - 1990 - Sophia 29 (3):10-20.
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    Michael Rota. Taking Pascal’s Wager: Faith, Evidence and the Abundant Life.Jeff Jordan - 2017 - Journal of Analytic Theology 5:924-927.
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    Philosophy of Religion: The Key Thinkers.Jeff Jordan (ed.) - 2011 - Continuum.
    An accessible survey of the most important thinkers on Religion, from Aquinas, through Kant to William James.
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  33. Pascal's Wagers.Jeff Jordan - 2002 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 26 (1):213–223.
    Pascal is best known among philosophers for his wager in support of Christian belief. Since Ian Hacking’s classic article on the wager, three versions of the wager have been recognized within the concise paragraphs of the Pensées. In what follows I argue that there is a fourth to be found there, a version that in many respects anticipates the argument of William James in his 1896 essay “The Will to Believe.” This fourth wager argument, I contend, differs from the better-known (...)
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    Pascal's Wager and the Problem of Infinite Utilities.Jeffrey Jordan - 1993 - Faith and Philosophy 10 (1):49-59.
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    Pascal’s Wagers and James’s Will to Believe.Jeff Jordan - 2005 - In William J. Wainwright (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of religion. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 168-187.
    Pragmatic arguments seek to justify the performance of an action by appealing to the benefits that may follow from that action. Pascal’s wager, for instance, argues that one should inculcate belief in God because there is everything to gain and little to lose by doing do. In this chapter I critically examine Pascal’s wager and William James’s famous “Will-to-Believe” argument by first explaining the logic of each argument and then by surveying the objections commonly arrayed against them. Finally, I suggest (...)
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    Rationality and Religious Commitment, by Robert Audi.Jeff Jordan - 2013 - Faith and Philosophy 30 (3):364-368.
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    Religious Reasons and Public Reasons.Jeff Jordan - 1997 - Public Affairs Quarterly 11 (3):245-254.
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    The doctrine of conservation and free-will defence.Jeff Jordan - 1992 - Sophia 31 (1-2):59-64.
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    The problem of divine exclusivity.Jeff Jordan - 1993 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 33 (2):89 - 101.
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    W. P. Franks: Explaining evil: four views: Bloomsbury Academic, London, 180 pp, $27.95.Jeffrey J. Jordan - 2020 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 88 (2):219-222.
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    William Wood: Blaise Pascal on duplicity, sin, and the fall: the secret instinct: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013, viii + 226 pages, $125.00.Jeff Jordan - 2014 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 76 (3):331-334.
    William Wood’s study, Blaise Pascal on duplicity, sin, and the fall, is an in-depth exploration of Pascal’s views of sin, human fallenness, and self-deception. While Wood is a tutorial fellow in Theology at Oriel College, Oxford University, his book engages work in analytic philosophy, as well as historical theology. Concisely put, according to Pascal, sin is a kind of idolatry, with some created thing replacing God as the sinner’s highest good. This replacement involves a turning away from the truth, as (...)
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    Cognitive and social influences in training teams for complex skills.Wayne L. Shebilske, Jeffrey A. Jordan, Barry P. Goettl & Eric A. Day - 1999 - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 5 (3):227.
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    Divine Hiddenness and Perfect Love.Jeffrey Jordan - 2017 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 9 (1):187--202.
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    Daniel Imhoff and Jo Ann Baumgartner (eds.): Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature: Essays in Conservation-Based Agriculture. [REVIEW]Jeff Jordan & Gwen Roland - 2009 - Agriculture and Human Values 26 (1-2):145-146.
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    David O'Connor, God and inscrutable evil: In defense of theism and atheism. Lanham, MD 1997. [REVIEW]Jeff Jordan - 2000 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 48 (1):61-64.
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    New Perspectives on Old-Time Religion. [REVIEW]Jeff Jordan - 1991 - International Philosophical Quarterly 31 (1):116-119.
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    No Title available: Book reviews. [REVIEW]Jeff Jordan - 2008 - Religious Studies 44 (2):238-242.
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    Readings in the Philosophical Problems of Parapsychology. [REVIEW]Jeff Jordan - 1989 - Teaching Philosophy 12 (3):296-297.
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    Review of William L. Rowe on Philosophy of Religion: Selected Writings, edited by Nick Trakakis: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7546-555-9, Hb, 462 pp. [REVIEW]Jeff Jordan - 2009 - Sophia 48 (4):495-496.
    Abstract‘William L. Rowe on Philosophy of Religion’ edited by Nick Trakakis, collects 30 papers of William Rowe's important work in the philosophy of religion. I review this collection, and offer an objection of one of Rowe's arguments.
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    The Cambridge Companion to Pascal. [REVIEW]Jeff Jordan - 2005 - Review of Metaphysics 58 (4):898-900.
    Among the historical studies, Ben Rogers performs the unglamorous duty of providing a concise biography of Pascal in “Pascal’s life and times.” Henry Phillips examines Pascal’s study and use of Montaigne and Descartes in “Pascal’s reading and inheritance of Montaigne and Descartes.” This essay is quite informative about Pascal’s apologetic project and the use made of Montaigne and Descartes in that project. An especially interesting feature of this essay is the contrast of the Pascalian apologetic project and the Cartesian. Michael (...)
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