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Thinking Matters Talk: Does Morality Need God? Part Three:

September 8th, 2022 3 Comments

This year the New Zealand apologetics organization Thinking Matters ran a “Confident Christianity Conference” in Auckland. I was asked to speak at this conference on the topic. Does Morality Need God? Below is a slightly streamlined version of the talk I gave. This brings me to my second contention: If God exists, a divine command theory […]

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Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Part IV

May 20th, 2021 Comments Off on Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Part IV

This is a talk I gave to the Philosophy Club at Glendale Community College in Phoenix, Arizona, this weekend. The talk was followed by a long discussion with some faculty, students at the college, and others who zoomed in. In this talk, I introduced and defended a divine command theory of ethics. I divided the talk into three […]

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Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Part III

May 16th, 2021 Comments Off on Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Part III

This is a talk I gave to the Philosophy Club at Glendale Community College in Phoenix, Arizona, this weekend. The talk was followed by a long discussion with some faculty, students at the college, and others who zoomed in. In this talk, I introduced and defended a divine command theory of ethics. I divided the talk into […]

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Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Part II

May 12th, 2021 Comments Off on Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Part II

This is a talk I gave to the Philosophy Club at Glendale Community College in Phoenix, Arizona, this weekend. The talk was followed by a long discussion with some faculty, students at the college, and others who zoomed in.  In this talk, I introduced and defended a divine command theory of ethics. The talk was divided into […]

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Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Part I

May 9th, 2021 Comments Off on Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Part I

This is a talk I gave to the Philosophy Club at Glendale Community College in Phoenix, Arizona, this weekend. The talk was followed by a long discussion with some faculty, students at the college, and others who zoomed in. In this talk, I introduced and defended a divine command theory of ethics. The talk was […]

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Published in Sophia “Why the Horrendous deeds objection is still a bad argument”

February 12th, 2021 3 Comments

My paper, “Why the Horrendous deeds objection is still a bad argument” has now been published by Sophia here.  The abstract is as follows: A common objection to divine command meta-ethics (‘DCM’) is the horrendous deeds objection. Critics object that if DCM is true, anything at all could be right, no matter how abhorrent or […]

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The Naturalness of Belief: New Essays in Theism’s Rationality.

February 10th, 2019 Comments Off on The Naturalness of Belief: New Essays in Theism’s Rationality.

The book The Naturalness of Belief: New Essays on Theism’s Rationality recently arrived from the publishers and is available on Amazon. Matt contributed a chapter to this book entitled “Divine Commands and the Euthyphro Dilemma: Some Naturalistic Misperceptions” The Naturalness of Belief is edited by Paul Copan (Palm Beach Atlantic) and Charles Taliaferro (St Olaf […]

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