ROBERT MERRIHEW ADAMS — Curriculum Vitae — October …



ROBERT MERRIHEW ADAMS — Curriculum Vitae — January 2010

Department of Philosophy Telephone 919-402-8641

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Email: adamro@email.unc.edu

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125

EDUCATION:

1955-59 Princeton University (A.B., philosophy, 1959)

1959-61 Oxford University (Mansfield College) (B.A., theology, 1961; M.A. 1965)

1961-62 Princeton Theological Seminary (B.D. 1962)

1965-68 Cornell University (M.A. 1967; Ph.D., philosophy, 1969)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Montauk Community Church (Presbyterian), Montauk, NY, Pastor, 1962-65

ACADEMIC

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Lecturer (1968)/Assistant Professor (1969-72) of Philosophy

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA): Associate Professor (1972-76)/ Professor (1976-94) of

Philosophy/Professor Emeritus (1994- )

Yale University: Visiting Professor, Divinity School (Spring 1988)

Yale University: Professor of Philosophy and (by courtesy) of Religious Studies (1993- 2003)/

Clark Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics (1995- 2003)/Emeritus (2004-)

Mansfield College, Oxford: Senior Research Fellow, 2004- (non-stipendiary position)

Oxford University: Visiting Professor of Philosophy, 2004-2009) (non-stipendiary position)

UNC Chapel Hill: Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy, 2009-

FIELDS OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH:

Philosophy of Religion, History of Modern Philosophy (mainly 17th and 18th centuries),

Ethical Theory, Metaphysics

FELLOWSHIPS etc.

Fellow of the British Academy (2006-)

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991- )

The Faculty Award for 1992, UCLA College of Letters & Science

University of California President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities (1988-89)

Fellow, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, N.J. (Fall 1983 & Fall 1984)

Wilde Lecturer in Natural Religion, Oxford University (Spring 1989)

National Endowment for the Humanities, Younger Humanist Fellowship (1974-75)

Gifford Lecturer, University of St. Andrews, Scotland (November 1999)

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE:

Chair, Department of Philosophy, Yale University (1993-2001)

Chair, Department of Philosophy, UCLA (1975-79)

Chair, Program in the Study of Religion, UCLA (1978-79, 1985-87, 1989-93)

Board of Trustees, Princeton Theological Seminary, Member (1980- ), Chair (1996-2001),

Chair of Academic Affairs Committee (1983-96, 2009- ), Chair of Investment Committee (2004-6)

Trustee, The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation (1979- )

American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Executive Committee (1995-98)

Society of Christian Philosophers, Executive Committee (1978-85), President (1981-83)

Leibniz Society of America, President (1994-98)

Robert Merrihew Adams — BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS (sole-authored)

1. The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).

2. Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).

3. Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

4. A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006).

ARTICLES

1. “Anticipation and Consummation,” Theology Today, 20 (1963), 196-211.

2. “The Logical Structure of Anselm’s Arguments,” The Philosophical Review, 80 (1971), 28-54.

Translated into Hebrew in Abraham Zvie Bar-On, ed., From Parmenides to Contemporary Thinkers: Readings in Ontology, vol. I (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1977), pp. 158-178.

Reprinted as ch. 15 of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

3. “Has It Been Proved That All Real Existence Is Contingent?” American Philosophical Quarterly, 8 (1971), 284-291.

Reprinted as ch. 13 of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987)

4. “Must God Create the Best?” The Philosophical Review, 81 (1972), 317-332.

Reprinted in Loretta Kopelman and John C. Moskop, eds., Ethics and Mental Retardation (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1984).

Reprinted in John Perry and Michael Bratman, eds., Introduction to Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1986).

Reprinted in Thomas V. Morris, ed., The Concept of God (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 91-106.

Reprinted as ch. 4 of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987)

Reprinted in Baruch A. Brody, ed., Readings in the Philosophy of Religion: An Analytic Approach, 2nd edn., (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991), pp. 317-28.

Reprinted in William L. Rowe, ed., God and the Problem of Evil (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 24-37.

5. “Berkeley’s ‘Notion’ of Spiritual Substance,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 55 (1973), 47-69.

Reprinted in Walter E. Creery, ed., George Berkeley: Critical Assessments (London: Routledge, 1991), Vol. III, pp. 424-44.

6. “Middle Knowledge” (an abstract), The Journal of Philosophy, 70 (1973), 552-554.

7. “A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical Wrongness,” in Gene Outka and John P. Reeder, Jr., eds., Religion and Morality (Doubleday Anchor, 1973), pp. 318-347.

Reprinted, in part, in Paul W. Tayler, ed., Problems of Moral Philosophy, third edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1978), pp. 595-612.

Reprinted, entirely, in Paul Helm, ed., Divine Commands and Morality (Oxford University Press, 1981), pp. 83-108.

Reprinted, in part, in Louis P. Pojman, ed. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1987), pp. 525-537.

Reprinted as ch. 7 of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

Reprinted in E.D. Klemke, ed., To Believe or Not to Believe: Readings in the Philosophy of Religion (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991), pp. 576-95.

Reprinted in Thomas L. Carson and Paul K. Moser, eds., Morality and the Good Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Reprinted in Taliaferro, Charles, and Paul Griffiths, eds., Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), pp. 462-76.

8. “Theories of Actuality,” Noûs, 8 (1974), 211-231.

Reprinted in Michael J. Loux, ed., The Possible and the Actual (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), pp. 190-209.

Translated into Romanian by Ella Muntean in Krisis: Revista de filosofie, No. 7 (1998): 140-55

Reprinted in Michael Tooley, ed., Analytical Metaphysics: A Collection of Essays, vol. 4, Particulars, Actuality, and Identity over Time (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999), pp. 321-41

Reprinted (in whole or in part) in French translation in Emmanuelle Garcia and Frédéric Nef, eds., Métaphysique contemporaine: propriétés, mondes possibles et personnes (Paris: Vrin, 2007).

9. “Where Do Our Ideas Come From? - Descartes vs. Locke,” in Stephen P. Stich, ed., Innate Ideas (University of California Press, 1975), pp. 71-87.

10. “Kierkegaard’s Arguments against Objective Reasoning in Religion,” The Monist, Vol. 60, No. 2 (April, 1976), 228-243.

Reprinted in Steven M. Cahn and David Shatz, eds., Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), pages 213-228.

Reprinted in John Perry and Michael Bratman, eds., Introduction to Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1986).

Reprinted in Louis P. Pojman, ed. Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1987), pp. 408-418.

Reprinted as ch. 2 of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

Reprinted in Baruch A. Brody, ed., Readings in the Philosophy of Religion: An Analytic Approach, 2nd edn., (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991), pp. 48-62.

Reprinted in Melville Y. Stewart, ed., Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology of Contemporary Views (Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1996), pp. 33-48.

Reprinted in David Shatz, ed., Philosophy and Faith: A Philosophy of Religion Reader (New York: McGraw Hill, 2002), pp. 497-507.

Reprinted in Steven M. Cahn, ed., ten Essential Texts in the Philosophy of Religion: Classics and Contemporary Issues (New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2004).

11. “Motive Utilitarianism,” The Journal of Philosophy, 73 (1976), 467-481.

Reprinted in Jonathan Glover, ed., Utilitarianism and Its Critics (New York: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 236-49.

Reprinted in James Rachels, ed., Ethical Theory 2: Theories about How We Should Live (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 50-63.

12. “Middle Knowledge and the Problem of Evil,” The American Philosophical Quarterly, 14 (1977), 109-117.

Reprinted as ch. 6 of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

Reprinted in Marilyn McCord Adams and Robert Merrihew Adams, eds., The Problem of Evil (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 110-25.

German translation, “Mittleres Wissen und das Problem des Übels,” in Christoph Jäger, ed., Analytische Religionsphilosophie (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1998), pp. 253-72.

Reprinted in William Hasker, David Basinger, and Eef Dekker, eds., Middle Knowledge: Theory and Applications (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 35-50.

13. “Critical Study: The Nature of Necessity (A. Plantinga),” Noûs, 11 (1977), 175-191.

14. “Leibniz’s Theories of Contingency,” Rice University Studies, 63, No. 4 (Fall 1977), pp. 1-41.

Reprinted in Michael Hooker, ed., Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive Essays (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982), pp. 243-283.

Reprinted in Vere Chapell, ed., Essays on Early Modern Philosophers, Vol. 12, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Part I, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1992), pp. 1-41.

Reprinted in Roger Woolhouse, ed., Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Critical Assessments, Vol. 1 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1994), pp. 28-73.

15. “Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity,” The Journal of Philosophy, 76 (1979), 5-26.

Reprinted in The Philosopher’s Annual for 1979.

Reprinted in Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, eds., Metaphysics: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), pp. 172-83.

Reprinted in Michael Tooley, ed., Analytical Metaphysics: A Collection of Essays, vol. 4, Particulars, Actuality, and Identity over Time (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999), pp. 1-22.

Reprinted in Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas, eds., Metaphysics: A Guide and Anthology (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 161-78.

Reprinted, in a Hungarian translation by Katalin Farkas, in Katalin Farkas and Ferenc Huoranszki, eds., Modern Metafizikai Tanulmányok (Budapest: Eötvös University Press, 2004), pp. 69-89.

16. “Existence, Self-Interest, and the Problem of Evil,” Noûs, 13 (1979), 53-65.

Reprinted as ch. 5 in Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

Reprinted in Ann Loades and Loyal D. Rue, eds., Contemporary Classics in Philosophy of Religion (Lasalle, Illinois: Open Court, 1991), pp. 217-29.

17. “Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again,” Journal of Religious Ethics, 7 (1979), 66-79.

Reprinted, in part, in Paul Helm, ed., Divine Commands and Morality (Oxford University Press, 1981), pp. 109-119.

Reprinted as ch. 9 of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

Reprinted in Russ Shafer-Landau, ed., Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2007), pp. 242-47.

18. “Autonomy and Theological Ethics,” Religious Studies, 15 (1979), pp. 191-194.

Reprinted as ch. 8 of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

Reprinted in Baruch A. Brody, ed., Readings in the Philosophy of Religion: An Analytic Approach, 2nd edn., (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991, pp. 503-507.

19. “Benevolence and Pleasure,” The Reformed Journal, 29 (1979), 13-14.

20. “Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief,” in C.F. Delaney, ed., Rationality and Religious Belief (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 116-140.

Reprinted as ch. 10 of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

Reprinted, in part, in Kelly James Clark, ed., Readings in the Philosophy of Religion (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2000), pp. 70-78.

21. “Pure Love,” Journal of Religious Ethics, 8, No. 1 (1980), pp. 83-99.

Reprinted as ch. 12 of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

Reprinted in Taliaferro, Charles, and Paul Griffiths, eds., Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), pp. 493-503.

22. “The Annointing at Bethany,” Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 1980, pp. 51-53.

23. “Actualism and Thisness,” Synthese, 49 (1981), 3-41.

Reprinted in The Philosopher’s Annual for 1981.

Reprinted in Michael Tooley, ed., Analytical Metaphysics: A Collection of Essays, vol. 4, Particulars, Actuality, and Identity over Time (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999), pp. 343-81.

24. “Phenomenalism and Corporeal Substance in Leibniz,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 8 (1983), 217-257.

Reprinted in Vere Chapell, ed., Essays on Early Modern Philosophers, Vol. 12, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Part I, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1992), pp. 43-83.

Reprinted in Derk Pereboom, ed., The Rationalists: Critical essays on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), pp. 223-271.

25. “Knowledge and Self: A Correspondence between Robert M. Adams and Hector-Neri Castaneda,” in James E. Tomberlin, ed., Agent, Language and the Structure of the World: Essays Presented to Hector-Neri Castaneda, with His Replies (Hackett Publishing Company, 1983), pp. 293-309.

26. “Divine Necessity,” Journal of Philosophy, 80 (1983), 741-752.

Reprinted in Thomas V. Morris, ed., The Concept of God (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 41-53.

Reprinted as ch. 14 of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

Reprinted in William L. Rowe and William J. Wainwright, eds., Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, third edition (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1998), pp. 12-19.

27. “The Virtue of Faith,” Faith and Philosophy, Vol. I, (1984), 3-15.

Reprinted as ch. 1 of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

Section III (pp. 9-12) reprinted in Paul Helm, ed., Faith and Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 378-82.

28. “Saints,” The Journal of Philosophy, 81(1984), 392-401.

Reprinted in Robert B. Kruschwitz and Robert C. Roberts, eds., The Virtues: Contemporary Essays on Moral Character (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1987), pp. 153-160.

Reprinted as ch. 11 of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

29. “Predication, Truth, and Trans-World Identity in Leibniz,” in How Things Are: Studies in Predication and the History and Philosophy of Science, ed. by James Bogen and James E. McGuire (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985), pp. 235-283.

30. “Plantinga on the Problem of Evil,” in James Tomberlin and Peter van Inwagen, eds., Alvin Plantinga (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985), pp. 225-255.

A portion reprinted in William Hasker, David Basinger, and Eef Dekker, eds., Middle Knowledge: Theory and Applications (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 218-21.

31. “Involuntary Sins,” The Philosophical Review, 94 (1985), 3-31.

Reprinted in The Philosopher’s Annual for 1985.

32. “The Problem of Total Devotion,” in Robert Audi and William Wainwright, eds., Rationality, Religious Belief, and Moral Commitment (Cornell University Press, 1986), pp. 169-94.

Reprinted in Neera Kapur Badhwar, ed., Friendship: A Philosophical Reader (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994), pp. 108-32.

33. “Time and Thisness,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 11 (1986), 315-329.

Reprinted in Joseph Almog, John Perry, and Howard Wettstein, eds., Themes from Kaplan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 23-42.

34. “Berkeley and Epistemology,” in Ernest Sosa, ed. Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley (Reidel, 1987), pp. 143-61.

35. “The Leap of Faith,” first published as ch. 3 (pp. 42-47) of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

36. “Flavors, Colors, and God,” first published as ch. 16 (pp.243-262) of Adams, The Virtue of Faith (1987).

Reprinted in R. Douglas Geivett and Brendan Sweetman, eds., Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 225-240.

37. “Divine Commands and the Social Nature of Obligation,” Faith and Philosophy, 4 (1987), 262-275.

Reprinted in Michael Beaty, Carlton Fisher, and Mark Nelson, eds., Christian Theism and Moral Philosophy (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1998), pp. 47-62.

38. “Vocation,” Faith and Philosophy, 4 (1987), 448-62.

39. “Presumption and the Necessary Existence of God,” Noûs, 22 (1988), 19-32.

40. “Common Projects and Moral Virtue,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 13 (1988), 297-307.

41. “Christian Liberty,” in Thomas V. Morris, ed., Philosophy and the Christian Faith (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988), pp. 151-71.

42. “Reply: Cobb on Ultimate Reality,” in Linda J. Tessier, ed., Concepts of the Ultimate (London: Macmillan, 1989), pp. 52-54.

43. “Should Ethics Be More Impersonal? A Critical Notice of Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons,” The Philosophical Review, 98 (1989), 439-84.

Reprinted in Jonathan Dancy, ed, Reading Parfit (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997), pp. 251-89.

44. “Reply to Kvanvig,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 50 (Dec. 1989), 299-301.

45. “The Knight of Faith,” Faith and Philosophy, 7 (1990), 383-95.

46. “An Anti-Molinist Argument,” Philosophical Perspectives, 5 (1991), 343-53.

Reprinted in William Hasker, David Basinger, and Eef Dekker, eds., Middle Knowledge: Theory and Applications (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 118-27.

47. “Platonism and Naturalism: Options for a Theocentric Ethics,” in Joseph Runzo, ed., Ethics, Religion, and the Good Society: New Directions in a Pluralistic World (Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992), pp. 22-42.

48. “Idolatry and the Invisibility of God,” in Shlomo Biderman and Ben Ami Scharfstein, eds., Interpretation in Religion (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992), pp. 39-52.

49. “Miracles, Laws of Nature, and Causation,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 66 (1992): 207-224.

50. “Religious Ethics in a Pluralistic Society,” in Gene Outka and John P. Reeder, Jr., eds., Prospects for a Common Morality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), pp. 93-113.

51. “Religion after Babel,” in Arvind Sharma, ed., God, Truth, and Reality: Essays in Honour of John Hick (London: Macmillan, 1993), pp. 62-71.

52. “Truth and Subjectivity,” in Eleanore Stump, ed., Reasoned Faith: Essays in Philosophical Theology in Honor of Norman Kretzmann (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 5-41.

53. “Prospects for a Metaethical Argument for Theism: A Response to Stephen J. Sullivan,” in Journal of Religious Ethics, 21 (1993): 313-18.

54. “Form und Materie bei Leibniz: die mittleren Jahre,” in Studia Leibnitiana, 25 (1993): 132-52.

55. “Leibniz and the Limits of Mechanism,” in Leibniz und Europa: VI. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongreß: Vorträge I. Teil (Hannover: Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesellschaft, 1994), pp. 1-8.

56. “Theodicy and Divine Intervention,” in Thomas F. Tracy, ed., The God Who Acts: Philosophical and Theological Explorations (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994), pp. 31-40.

57. “Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,” in Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, eds., A Companion to Metaphysics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 268-71.

58. “Religious Disagreements and Doxastic Practices,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 54 (1994): 885-90.

59. “Leibniz’s Examination of the Christian Religion,” Faith and Philosophy, 11 (1994): 517-46.

60. “Moral Faith,” The Journal of Philosophy, 92 (1995): 75-95.

61. “Introductory Note to *1970” [i.e. to Gödel’s “Ontological Proof”] in Kurt Gödel, Collected Works, Vol. 3, Solomon Feferman et al., eds., (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 388-402.

62. “Moral Horror and the Sacred,” Journal of Religious Ethics, 23 (1995): 201-224.

63. “Agape,” “possible worlds,” “theodicy,” and “transcendence” in Robert Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 12, 633-34, 794-95, 807-8.

64. “The Concept of a Divine Command,” in D.Z. Phillips, ed., Religion and Morality (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), pp. 59-80.

65. “Philosophy of Religion,” in Donald M. Borchert, ed., The Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Supplement (New York: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 427-31.

66. “Qualia,” Faith and Philosophy, 12 (1995 [in fact, 1996]): 472-74.

67. “Analytical Philosophy and Theism: Reflections on Analytical Philosophical Theology,” in William J. Wainwright, ed., God, Philosophy, and Academic Culture: A Discussion between Scholars in the AAR and the APA (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996), pp. 79-87.

68. “Response to Carriero, Mugnai, and Garber,” Leibniz Society Review, 6 (1996): 107-25 (part of Symposium on Robert Merrihew Adams’s Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist).

69. “The Pre-established Harmony and the Philosophy of Mind,” in Roger S. Woolhouse, ed., Leibniz’s “New System” (1695) (Lessico Intellettuale Europeo, LXVIII; Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1996), pp. 1-13.

70. “Schleiermacher on Evil,” Faith and Philosophy, 13 (1996): 563-83.

71. “Atoning Transactions,” in Stephen T. Davis, ed., Philosophy and Theological Discourse (London: Macmillan, 1997), pp. 98-101.

72. “Thisness and Time Travel,” Philosophia, 25 (1997): 407-15.

73. “Critical Study: Sleigh’s Leibniz & Arnauld: A Commentary on Their Correspondence,” Noûs, 31 (1997): 266-77.

74. “Things in Themselves,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 57 (1997): 801-25.

Reprinted in The Philosopher’s Annual, 20 (1997): 1-24.

75. “Symbolic Value,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 21 (1997): 1-15.

76. “Self-Love and the Vices of Self-Preference,” Faith and Philosophy, 15 (1998): 500-513.

77. “Original Sin: A Study in the Interaction of Philosophy and Theology,” in Francis J. Ambrosio, ed., The Question of Christian Philosophy Today (New York: Fordham University Press, 1999), pp. 80-104 (with questions and answers from conference discussion, pp. 104-110).

Reprinted in Oliver Crisp, ed., A Reader in Contemporary Philosophical Theology (London: T & T Clark, 2009), pp. 229-53.

78. “Stewardship or Generosity?” in Wallace M. Alston, Jr., ed., Theology in the Service of the Church: Essays in Honor of Thomas W. Gillespie (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000), pp. 12-18.

79. “Leibniz’s Conception of Religion,” in The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 7 (Bowling Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2000), pp. 57-70.

80. “Reading the Silences, Questioning the Terms: A Response to the Focus on Eighteenth-Century Ethics,” in Journal of Religious Ethics, 28 (2000): 281-284.

81. “God, Possibility, and Kant,” in Faith and Philosophy, 17 (2000): 425-440.

82. “Holy Places,” in The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 22 (2001): 11-15.

83. “Scanlon’s Contractualism: Critical Notice of T. M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other,” in The Philosophical Review, 110 (2001 [in fact 2002]): 563-86.

84. “Précis of Finite and Infinite Goods” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 64 (2002): 439-44 (part of a Book Symposium on Finite and Infinite Goods).

85. “Responses” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 64 (2002): 475-90 (part of a Book Symposium on Finite and Infinite Goods).

86. “Science, Metaphysics, and Reality,” in Hans Poser, ed., VII. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongreß: Nihil sine ratione, Nachtragsband (Hannover: Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesellschaft e.V., 2002), pp. 50-64.

87. “The Silence of God in the Thought of Martin Buber,” Philosophia, 30 (2003): 51-68.

88. “Anti-Consequentialism and the Transcendence of the Good,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 67 (2003): 114-32.

89. “Voluntarism and the Shape of a History,” Utilitas, 16 (2004): 124-32.

90. “Moral Necessity.” In Donald Rutherford and J. A. Cover, eds., Leibniz: Nature and Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 181-93.

91. “Human Nature, Christian Vocation, and the Sexes.” In Nicholas Coulton, ed., The Bible, the Church and Homosexuality (London: Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd, 2005), pp. 100-113.

92. “Faith and Religious Knowledge.” In Jacqueline Mariña, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 35-51.

93. “How Can I Give You Up, O Ephraim?” Theology Today, 63 (2006): 88-93.

94. “Love and the Problem of Evil.” Philosophia, 34 (2006 — actually 2007): 243-51.

Russian translation Пюбовь и проблема зла in V. K. Shokhin, ed., Проблема зла и теодицея (Moscow, 2006), pp. 39-53.

95. “Idealism Vindicated.” In Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman, eds., Persons: Human and Divine (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), pp. 35-54.

96. “The Priority of the Perfect in the Philosophical Theology of the Continental Rationalists.” In Michael Ayers, ed., Rationalism, Platonism and God: A Symposium on Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) (Proceedings of the British Academy, 149), pp. 91-116.

97. “A Philosophical Autobiography.” In Samuel Newlands and Larry M. Jorgensen, eds., Metaphysics and the Good: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 16-32.

98. “The Theological Ethics of the Young Rawls and Its Background.” In John Rawls, A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith, with On My Religion, ed. by Thomas Nagel with commentary by Thomas Nagel, Joshua Cohen, and Robert Merrihew Adams (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp. 24-101.

99. “Conflict.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 83 (2009), pp. 115-32.

100. “The Reception of Leibniz’s Philosophy in the Twentieth Century.” In G. A. J. Rogers, Tom Sorell, and Jill Kraye, eds., Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth Century Philosophy. (New York: Routledge, 2010 —bound copy received 12 Sept. 2009), pp. 309-14.

101. “Comment.” In Susan Wolf’s Tanner Lectures, Meaning in Life and Why It Matters (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), pp. 75-84.

102. “A Theory of Virtue: Introductory Remarks.” Philosophical Studies, 148 (2010): 133-34.

103. “A Theory of Virtue: Response to Critics.” Philosophical Studies, 148 (2010): 159-65.

BOOKS AND TEXTS EDITED, TRANSLATED, OR INTRODUCED

1. “The Locke-Leibniz Debate,” [edited] in Stephen P. Stich, ed., Innate Ideas (University of California Press, 1975), pp. 37-67.

2. George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, edited, with introduction (16 pages) and other aids to study, by Robert Merrihew Adams (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1979). (xxxii, 105pp.)

3. The Problem of Evil, edited, with introduction (24 pages), by Marilyn McCord Adams and Robert Merrihew Adams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990).

4. “Appendix B: Texts Relating to the Ontological Proof,” [translated] in Kurt Gödel, Collected Works, Vol. 3, Solomon Feferman et al., eds., (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 429-37.

5. Integrity and Conscience (Nomos, vol. 40), edited, with introduction, by Ian Shapiro and Robert Adams (New York: New York University Press, 1998).

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