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  1. Petitionary prayer.Scott A. Davison - 2008 - In Thomas P. Flint & Michael Rea (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophical theology. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Traditional theists believe that there exists an all-knowing, all-powerful, perfectly loving, and perfectly good God. They also believe that God created the world, sustains it in being from moment to moment, and providentially guides all events, in accordance with a plan, towards a good ending. Historically, most traditional theists have believed that God sometimes answers prayers for particular things. In keeping with the literature on this subject, these prayers are referred to as ‘petitionary prayers’. This article discusses several problems related (...)
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    Salvific Luck in Islamic Theology.Amir Saemi & Scott A. Davison - 2020 - Journal of Analytic Theology 8 (1):120-130.
    One of the major arguments for theological voluntarism offered by the Ash’arites involves the claim that that some of the factors upon which our salvation or condemnation depend are beyond our control. We will call this “the problem of salvific luck.” According to the Ash’arites, the fact that God does save and condemn human beings on the basis of factors beyond their control casts doubt on any non-voluntarist conception of divine justice. A common way to respond to this Ash’arite argument (...)
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    Could Abstract Objects Depend upon God?Scott A. Davison - 1991 - Religious Studies 27 (4):485 - 497.
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    Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation.Scott A. Davison - 2012 - Oxford University Press UK.
    This volume explores the philosophical issues involved in the idea of petitionary prayer, where this is conceived as an activity designed to influence the action of the all-knowing, all-powerful, perfectly good God of traditional theism. Theists have always recognized various logical and moral limits to divine action in the world, but do these limits leave any space among God's reasons for petitionary prayer to make a difference? Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation develops a new account of the conditions required for (...)
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  5. Requests and Responses: Reply to Cohoe.Scott A. Davison - 2018 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (2):187-194.
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    Could Abstract Objects Depend Upon God?: SCOTT A. DAVISON.Scott A. Davison - 1991 - Religious Studies 27 (4):485-497.
    What sorts of things are there in the world? Clearly enough, there are concrete, material things; but are there other things too, perhaps nonconcrete or non-material things? Some people believe that there are such things, which are often called abstract ; purported examples of such objects include numbers, properties, possible but non-actual states of affairs, propositions, and sets. Following a long-standing tradition, I shall describe persons who believe that there are abstract objects as ‘platonists’. In this paper, I shall not (...)
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    Moral Luck and the Flicker of Freedom.Scott A. Davison - 1999 - American Philosophical Quarterly 36 (3):241 - 251.
    I argue that a well-known argument concerning moral luck supports something like the Principle of Alternate Possibilities (PAP), despite the attacks on PAP by Harry Frankfurt and John Martin Fischer.
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  8. On the Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer: Response to Daniel and Frances Howard-Snyder.Scott A. Davison - 2011 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 3 (1):227 - 237.
    I respond to Daniel and Frances Howard-Snyder’s criticisms of my arguments in another place for the conclusion that human supplicants would have little responsibility (if any) for the result of answered petitionary prayer, and criticize their defense of the claim that God would have good reasons for creating an institution of petitionary prayer.
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  9. A Naturalistic Intrinsic Value Theodicy.Scott A. Davison - 2019 - Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 9:236-258.
     
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    Craig on the Grounding Objection to Middle Knowledge.Scott A. Davison - 2004 - Faith and Philosophy 21 (3):365-369.
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    Privacy and Control.Scott A. Davison - 1997 - Faith and Philosophy 14 (2):137-151.
    In this paper, I explore several privacy issues as they arise with respect to the divine/human relationship. First, in section 1, I discuss the notion of privacy in a general way. Section 2 is devoted to the claim that privacy involves control over information about oneself. In section 3, I summarize the arguments offered recently by Margaret Falls-Corbitt and F. Michael McLain for the conclusion that God respects the privacy of human persons by refraining from knowing certain things about them. (...)
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  12. Divine Providence and Human Freedom.Scott A. Davison - 1999 - In Michael J. Murray (ed.), Reason for the Hope Within. Eerdmans. pp. 217--237.
     
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    Cowan on Molinism and Luck.Scott A. Davison - 2009 - Philosophia Christi 11 (1):170-174.
    In “Molinism, Meticulous Providence, and Luck,” Steven Cowan argues that the doctrine of meticulous providence creates a damaging dilemma for Molinists. I argue that Molinists can overcome this dilemma without giving up the doctrine of meticulous providence.
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  14. Nicholas Wolterstorff: Practices of belief: selected essays, volume 2 : Cambridge University Press, New York, 2010, x and 435 pp, $85.00.Scott A. Davison - 2011 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 70 (3):255-258.
    Nicholas Wolterstorff: Practices of belief: selected essays, volume 2 (Terence Cuneo, ed.) Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 255-258 DOI 10.1007/s11153-011-9287-4 Authors Scott A. Davison, Philosophy Program, Morehead State University, 150 University Blvd., 354A Rader Hall, Morehead, KY 40351, USA Journal International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Online ISSN 1572-8684 Print ISSN 0020-7047 Journal Volume Volume 70 Journal Issue Volume 70, Number 3.
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  15. Dretske on the metaphysics of freedom.Scott A. Davison - 1994 - Analysis 54 (2):115-123.
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  16. A natural law based environmental ethic.Scott A. Davison - 2009 - Ethics and the Environment 14 (1):pp. 1-13.
    In his recent book Natural Law and Practical Rationality , Mark Murphy develops a sophisticated version of a natural law account of practical rationality. I shall show that with only a few minor changes, Murphy's account can be developed into an environmental ethic that generates human obligations to non-human animals, plants, and perhaps even ecosystems and machines. (I shall not discuss here the plausibility of this extension of Murphy's account, relative to competing accounts in environmental ethics; that discussion will have (...)
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    Deane-Peter Baker (ed.), Alvin Plantinga (contemporary philosophy in focus series).Scott A. Davison - 2009 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 65 (2):109-112.
  18. Foreknowledge, middle knowledge and “nearby” worlds.Scott A. Davison - 1991 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 30 (1):29 - 44.
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    Father Time and Fatherhood.Scott A. Davison - 2010-09-24 - In Fritz Allhoff, Lon S. Nease & Michael W. Austin (eds.), Fatherhood ‐ Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 7–17.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Present Moment Sterner on Returning to the Present Clock Time and Experienced Time Notes.
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    God and Prayer.Scott A. Davison - 2022 - Cambridge University Press.
    Are there good reasons for offering petitionary prayers to God, if God exists? Could such prayers make a difference in the world? Could we ever have good reason to think that such prayers had been answered? In this Element, the author will carefully explore these questions with special attention to recent philosophical discussions.
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  21. (1 other version)Luck and Fairness in The Good Place.Scott A. Davison & Andrew R. Davison - 2020 - In Kimberly S. Engels (ed.), The Good Place and Philosophy: Everything is Forking Fine! Wiley.
    The story of the show, The Good Place, begins with a common picture of what happens to us after we die. One of the key philosophical issues in the story involves how to assess correctly the moral goodness or badness of a person's life on Earth, since this is the basis of the judgment concerning their eternal destiny. Thomas Nagel claims that there are four kinds of “moral luck”: luck in the circumstances in which we find ourselves, luck with respect (...)
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    Making Sense of Your Freedom. Philosophy for the Perplexed.Scott A. Davison - 1995 - Philosophical Books 36 (3):187-188.
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  23. Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley: Knowledge of God (great debates in philosophy series, series editor Ernest sosa). [REVIEW]Scott A. Davison - 2009 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 66 (2):105-107.
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    David J. batholomew, uncertain belief: Is it rational to be a Christian? [REVIEW]Scott A. Davison - 1998 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 43 (3):183-185.
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    Nicholas Everitt, the non-existence of God. London: Routledge, 2004. XIV and 326 pages. [REVIEW]Scott A. Davison - 2007 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 61 (2):127-129.
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    Review of Charles Taliaferro, Chad Meister (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical Theology[REVIEW]Scott A. Davison - 2010 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (10).
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