Some Philosophical Work
Donald Wacome
Department of Philosophy
Northwestern College

Belief, Desire and the Will in Christian Faith On the epistemic impotence of the will and its implications for religious epistemology

The Material Image A materialist's interpretation of the imago Dei

Evolution, Foreknowledge and Creation Why the grand evolutionary story is antecedently probable on Christian theism

On Being Religiously Neutral A critique of the neo-Kuyperian argument that reductionism is idolatry

Goodbye to the Ghost of the Ghost in the Machine Finding a place for human beings in the scientific world picture without loopholes.

Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom Why a God wanting to create free creatures would limit his omniscience.

Unveiling the Moral Machinery of the Soul Outline of a talk on the implications of evolutionary moral psychology

Material Free Agents?  A paper on how we can be free while embedded in the causal order of nature

A Physicalist Account of the Resurrection Outline of a talk on how a physicalist accounts for the possibility of the resurrection

Reductionism's Demise: Cold Comfort  Abstract of paper in Zygon. Why the demise of tradtional mind-brain reductionism does nothing to protect the human self-image from the inroads of physicalism.

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