Linked bibliography for the SEP article "Perfect Goodness" by Mark Murphy

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Adams, Marilyn McCord, 1987. “Duns Scotus on the Goodness of God,” Faith and Philosophy, 4: 486–505. (Scholar)
Adams, Robert M., 1972. “Must God Create the Best?,” Philosophical Review, 81: 317–332. (Scholar)
Almeida, Michael, 2012. God, Freedom, and Worlds, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Alston, William P., 1990. “Some Suggestions for Divine Command Theorists,” in Beaty 1990: 303–326. (Scholar)
Anselm, 1996. Monologion, in Monologion and Proslogion, ed. and trans. Thomas Williams. Indianapolis: Hackett. (Scholar)
Beaty, Michael (ed.), 1990. Christian Theism and the Problems of Philosophy, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. (Scholar)
Bergmann, Michael and Cover, Jan, 2006. “Divine Responsibility without Divine Freedom,” Faith and Philosophy, 23: 381–408. (Scholar)
Bergmann, Michael and Kain, Patrick (eds.), forthcoming. Challenges to Religious and Moral Belief: Disagreement and Evolution, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Carter, W.R., 1982. “Omnipotence and Sin,” Analysis, 42: 102–105. (Scholar)
Climenhaga, Nevin, 2018. “Infinite Value and the Best of All Possible Worlds,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 97: 367–392. (Scholar)
Conee, Earl, 1994. “The Nature and Impossibility of Moral Perfection,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 54: 815–825 (Scholar)
Davies, Brian, 2011. Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Davison, Scott, 2012. On the Intrinsic Value of Everything, New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
Duns Scotus, John, 1962. Philosophical Writings, translated by Allan Wolter. Edinburgh: Nelson. (Scholar)
Garcia, Laura L., 1987. “The Essential Moral Perfection of God,” Religious Studies, 23: 137–144. (Scholar)
Graves, Shawn, 2012. “God and Moral Perfection,” Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, 5: 98–116. (Scholar)
Guleserian, Ted, 1985. “Can Moral Perfection Be an Essential Attribute?,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 46: 219–241. (Scholar)
Hill, Daniel, 2005. Divinity and Maximal Greatness, Abingdon: Routledge. (Scholar)
Howard-Snyder, Daniel and Howard-Snyder, Frances, 1994. “How an Unsurpassable Being Can Create a Surpassable World,” Faith and Philosophy, 11: 260–268. (Scholar)
Jordan, Jeffrey and Howard-Snyder, Daniel, 1996. Faith, Freedom, and Rationality, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. (Scholar)
Kant, Immanuel, 1785. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, in Kant 1996: 43–108. Cited by Academy edition pagination. (Scholar)
–––, 1996. Practical Philosophy, ed. and trans. Mary J. Gregor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Kraay, Klaas, 2009. “Can God Choose a World at Random?,” in Nagasawa and Wielenberg 2009: 22–35. (Scholar)
–––, 2008. “Creation, Actualization, and God’s Choice Among Possible Worlds,” Philosophy Compass, 3(4): 854–872. (Scholar)
Kretzmann, Norman, 1991. “A General Problem of Creation: Why Would God Create Anything at All?,” in MacDonald 1991: 208–228. (Scholar)
Langtry, Bruce, 2008. God, The Best, and Evil, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1710. “Essays on the Justice of God and the Freedom of Man,” in Theodicy, ed. Austin Farrer and trans. E. M. Huggard. Chicago: Open Court. (Scholar)
Leftow, Brian, 1989. “Necessary Moral Perfection,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 70: 240–260. (Scholar)
–––, 2013. “God’s Deontic Perfection,” Res Philosophica, 90: 69–95. (Scholar)
MacDonald, Scott (ed.), 1991. Being and Goodness, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
McGinn, Colin, 1992. “Must I Be Morally Perfect?,” Analysis, 52: 32–34. (Scholar)
Mill, John Stuart, 1865. “Mr. Mansel on the Limits of Religious Thought,” in Pike 1964: 37–45. (Scholar)
Morris, Thomas V., 1983. “Impeccability.” Analysis, 43: 106–112. (Scholar)
–––, 1989a. Anselmian Explorations, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1989b. “Duty and Divine Goodness,” in Morris 1989a: 26–41. (Scholar)
–––, 1989c. “The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Anselm,” in Morris 1989a: 10–25. (Scholar)
–––, 1989d. “The Necessity of God’s Goodness,” in Morris 1989a: 42–69. (Scholar)
–––, 1989e. “Properties, Modalities, and God,” in Morris 1989a: 76–97. (Scholar)
Morriston, Wes, 1985. “Is God ‘Significantly Free’?,” Faith and Philosophy, 2: 257–264. (Scholar)
Murphy, Mark C., 2011. God and Moral Law: On the Theistic Explanation of Morality, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2017. God’s Own Ethics: Norms of Divine Action and the Argument from Evil, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2019a. “The Perfect Goodness of God in the Hebrew Scriptures,” in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion, Michael L. Peterson and Raymond J. VanArragon (eds.), Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (Scholar)
–––, 2019b. “Is an Absolutely Perfect Being Morally Perfect?,” in Current Controversies in Philosophy of Religion, Paul Draper (ed.), New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
Nagasawa, Yujin, 2008. “A New Defence of Anselmian Theism,” Philosophical Quarterly, 58: 577–596. (Scholar)
Nagasawa, Yujin, and Wielenberg, Erik (eds.), 2009. New Waves in Philosophy of Religion, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
Pike, Nelson, 1969. “Omnipotence and God’s Ability to Sin,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 6: 208–216. (Scholar)
Plantinga, Alvin, 1979. The Nature of Necessity, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Pike, Nelson (ed.), 1964. God and Evil, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. (Scholar)
Raz, Joseph, 1999. Practical Reason and Norms, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Reichenbach, Bruce, 1982. Evil and a Good God, New York: Fordham University Press. (Scholar)
Rogers, Katherin, 2000. Perfect Being Theology, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
Rowe, William, 2004. Can God Be Free?, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Rubio, Daniel, 2017. “God Meets Satan’s Apple: The Paradox of Creation,” Philosophical Studies, 175: 2987–3004. (Scholar)
Smith, Michael, 1994. The Moral Problem, Malden, MA: Blackwell. (Scholar)
Stump, Eleonore, 1990. “Intellect, Will, and the Principle of Alternative Possibilities,” in Beaty 1990: 254–287. (Scholar)
–––, 1992. “God’s Obligations,” Philosophical Perspectives, 6: 475–491. (Scholar)
Swinburne, Richard. 1993. The Coherence of Theism, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Tucker, Chris, 2016. “Satisficing and Motivated Submaximization (in the Philosophy of Religion),” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 93: 127–143. (Scholar)
Ullman-Margalit, Edna and Morgenbesser, Sidney, 1977. “Picking and Choosing,” Social Research, 44: 757–785. (Scholar)
Wainwright, William, 1996. “Jonathan Edwards, William Rowe, and the Necessity of Creation,” in Jordan and Howard-Snyder 1996: 119–133. (Scholar)
Wielenberg, Erik, 2004. “A Morally Unsurpassable God Must Create the Best,” Religious Studies, 40: 43–62. (Scholar)
Wierenga, Edward, 1989. The Nature of God: An Inquiry into the Divine Attributes, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
Zagzebski, Linda, 2004. Divine Motivation Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)

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