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Dr Nick Trakakis

Nick Trakakis

Ph.D., Monash University, 2005

Research Fellow

Email: Nick.Trakakis@arts.monash.edu.au

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Research Interests:

Philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, epistemology and metaphysics.

Co-founder of Australasian Association for Philosophy of Religion ( http://www.csu.edu.au/research/apra ).

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Books:

  1. New book on competing approaches to, and the future of, the philosophy of religion; forthcoming with Continuum Books.

  2. The God Beyond Belief: In Defence of William Rowe's Evidential Argument from Evil, with a Foreword by William L. Rowe, published in 2006 by Springer Publishing.

  3. Editor of William L. Rowe on Philosophy of Religion: Selected Writings, published by Ashgate in 2007.

  4. Editor, with Graham Oppy, of A History of Western Philosophy of Religion, volumes 1-5, under contract with Acumen.

  5. Editor, with Daniel Cohen, of Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility, under contract with Cambridge Scholars Press. (Contributors include Robert Kane, John Martin Fischer, Derk Pereboom, J.J.C. Smart, Ishtayique Haji, and Saul Smilansky.)

Recent publications:

  1. 'Evil and the Complexity of History: A Response to Durston,' Religious Studies, vol.39, no. 4, December 2003, pp.451-458.

  2. 'What No Eye Has Seen: The Skeptical Theist Response to Rowe's Evidential Argument from Evil,' Philo: The Journal of the Society of Humanist Philosophers, vol.6, no. 2, Fall-Winter 2003, pp.250-66.

  3. 'On the Alleged Failure of Free Will Theodicies: A Reply to Tierno,'Sophia, vol.42, no. 2, October 2003, pp.99-106.

  4. 'God, Gratuitous Evil, and van Inwagen's Attempt to Reconcile the Two,'Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 3, 2003.

  5. 'Salvation in Heaven?' (with Graham Oppy and Yujin Nagasawa),Philosophical Papers, vol.33, no. 1, March 2004, pp.95-117.

  6. 'Interview with William Rowe,' Philosophy Now, issue 47, August-September 2004, pp.16-18.

  7. 'Review of Nicholas Rescher, On Leibniz (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003),' The Leibniz Review, vol.14, 2004, pp.89-98.

  8. 'Second Thoughts on the Alleged Failure of Free Will Theodicies,'Sophia, vol. 43, no. 2, October 2004, pp.87-93.

  9. 'Skeptical Theism and Moral Skepticism: A Reply to Almeida and Oppy' (with Yujin Nagasawa), Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion , vol. 4, 2004.

  10. Entry on "The Evidential Problem of Evil' in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by James Fieser and Bradley Dowden, available at <http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/evil-evi.htm >, published April 2005.

  11. 'Is Theism Capable of Accounting for Any Natural Evil at All?'International Journal for Philosophy of Religion , vol. 57, no. 1, 2005, pp.35-66.

  12. 'Gregory Palamas on the Relationship Between Philosophy and Theology,'Theandros: An Online Journal of Orthodox Christian Theology and Philosophy , vol. 3, no. 1, Fall 2005.

  13. 'Why There Is Reason to Remain Sceptical of Durston's Scepticism',Religious Studies, vol. 42, 2006, pp.101-109.

  14. 'Nietzsche's Perspectivism and Problems of Self-Refutation,'International Philosophical Quarterly , vol. 46, no. 1, March 2006, pp.91-110.

  15. "Confronting the Horror of Natural Evil: An Exchange Between Peter Coghlan (Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University) and Nick Trakakis", Sophia , vol. 45, no. 2, October 2006, pp.5-26.

  16. 'Karma and the Problem of Evil: A Response to Whitley Kaufman' (with Monima Chadha), Philosophy East & West , forthcoming.

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