Robert Merrihew Adams (adams-rm)

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Bibliography

Adams, Marilyn McCord and Adams, Robert Merrihew, eds. 1990. The Problem of Evil. Oxford Readings in Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Adams, Marilyn McCord and Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2022. Housing the Powers: Medieval Debates about Dependence on God. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780192862549.001.0001.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1963. “Anticipation and Consummation.” Theology Today 20: 196–211.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1971a. “The Logical Structure of Anselm’s Arguments.” The Philosophical Review 80: 28–54. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 221–242).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1971b. “Has It Been Proved That All Real Existence is Contingent?” American Philosophical Quarterly 8: 284–291. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 195–208).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1972. “Must God Create the Best?” The Philosophical Review 81(3): 317–332. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 51–64) and in Peterson (1992, 275–288).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1973a. “Berkeley’s ‘Notion’ of Spiritual Substance.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 55(1): 47–69.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1973b. “A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical Wrongness.” in Religion and Morality. A Collection of Essays, edited by Gene H. Outka and John P. Reeder. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 97–122).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1974. “Theories of Actuality.” Noûs 8(3): 211–231. Reprinted in Loux (1979, 190–209).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1975. “Where do Our Ideas Come From? – Descartes vs. Locke.” in Innate Ideas, edited by Stephen P. Stich, pp. 71–88. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1976. “Kierkegaard’s Arguments Against Objective Reasoning in Religion.” The Monist 60. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 25–41).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1977a. “Middle Knowledge and the Problem of Evil.” American Philosophical Quarterly 14: 109–117. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 77–95).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1977b. “Leibniz’s Theories of Contingency.” Rice University Studies 63: 1–41. Reprinted in Hooker (1982, 243–283).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1977c. “Critical Study of Plantinga (1974).” Noûs 11: 175–191.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1979a. “Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity.” The Journal of Philosophy 76: 5–26.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1979b. “Existence, Self-Interest, and the Problem of Evil.” Noûs 13. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 65–76).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1979c. “Autonomy and Theological Ethics.” Religious Studies 15. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 123–127).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1979d. “Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again.” The Journal of Religious Ethics 7(1): 66–79. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 128–143).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1979e. “Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief.” in Rationality and Religious Belief, edited by Cornelius F. Delaney, pp. 116–140. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 144–163).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1980. “Pure Love.” The Journal of Religious Ethics 8(1): 83–90. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 174–193).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1981. “Actualism and Thisness.” Synthese 49(1): 3–41, doi:10.1007/BF01063914.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1983a. “Divine Necessity.” The Journal of Philosophy 80: 741–752. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 209–220).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1983b. “Phenomenalism and Corporeal Substance in Leibniz.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 8: Contemporary perspectives on the history of philosophy, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 217–257. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. Reprinted in Pereboom (1999, 223–271).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1984a. “Saints.” The Journal of Philosophy 81: 392–401. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 164–173).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1984b. “The Virtue of Faith.” Faith and Philosophy 1(1): 3–15. Reprinted in Adams, R. M. (1987a, 9–24).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1985a. “Predication, Truth and Transworld Identity in Leibniz.” in How Things Are. Studies in Predication and the History of Philosophy and Science, edited by James [Jim] Bogen and James E. McGuire, pp. 235–283. Philosophical Studies Series n. 29. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1985b. “Plantinga on the Problem of Evil.” in Alvin Plantinga, edited by James E. Tomberlin and Peter van Inwagen, pp. 225–256. Profiles n. 5. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-94-009-5223-2.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1986. “Time and Thisness.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 11: Studies in Essentialism, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 315–329. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. Reprinted in Almog, Perry and Wettstein (1989, 23–42).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1987a. The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1987b. “Flavors, Colors, and God.” in The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology, pp. 243–262. New York: Oxford University Press. Reprinted in Geivett and Sweetman (1992, 225–240).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1987c. “The Leap of Faith.” in The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology, pp. 42–47. New York: Oxford University Press.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1987d. “Berkeley and Epistemology.” in Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 143–163. Synthese Historical Library n. 29. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1988a. “Presumption and the Necessary Existence of God.” Noûs 22: 19–32.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1988b. “Common Projects and Moral Virtue.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 13: Ethical theory – character and virtue, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 297–307. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1988c. “Review of Mates (1986).” Mind 97(386): 299–302.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1988d. “Christian Liberty.” in Philosophy and the Christian Faith, edited by Thomas V. Morris, pp. 151–171. University of Notre Dame Studies in Religion n. 5. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1989. “Should Ethics Be More Impersonal? A Critical Notice of Parfit (1984).” The Philosophical Review 98: 439–484. Reprinted in Dancy (1997, 251–289).
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1991. “An Anti-Molinist Argument.” in Philosophical Perspectives 5: Philosophy of Religion, edited by James E. Tomberlin, pp. 343–354. Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Co.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1992. “Miracles, Laws of Nature, and Causation.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 66: 207–224.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1993a. “Form and Materie bei Leibniz: die mittleren Jahre.” Studia Leibnitiana 25(2): 132–152.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1993b. “Truth and Subjectivity.” in Reasoned Faith. Essays in Philosophical Theology in Honor of Norman Kretzmann, edited by Eleonore Stump, pp. 15–41. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1994a. Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195126491.001.0001.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1994b. “Religious Disagreements and Doxastic Practices.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54: 885–890.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1995a. “Moral Faith.” The Journal of Philosophy 92: 75–95.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1995b. “Qualia.” Faith and Philosophy 12: 472–474.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1996a. “The Pre-Established Harmony and the Philosophy of Mind.” in Leibniz’s “New System” (1695), International Conference (University of York, England, 5-8 July 1995), edited by Roger S. Woolhouse, pp. 1–13. Lessico intellettuale europeo n. 68. Firenze: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1996b. “The Concept of a Divine Command.” in Religion and Morality, edited by Dewi Z. Phillips, pp. 59–80. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. London: MacMillan Publishing Co.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1997a. “Symbolic Value.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 21: Philosophy of Religion, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 1–15. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1997b. “Things in Themselves.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57(4): 801–825.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1997c. “Thisness and Time Travel.” Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 25: 407–415.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1997d. “Atoning Transactions [on Hick (1994)].” in Philosophy and Theological Discourse, edited by Stephen T. Davis, pp. 98–101. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. London: MacMillan Publishing Co.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1999. Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195153715.001.0001.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2000. “God, Possibility and Kant.” Faith and Philosophy 17: 425–440.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2001a. “Substance and Reality.” Unpublished manuscript.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2001b. “Metaphysical Perfection.” Unpublished manuscript.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2002a. “Précis of Adams, R. M. (1999).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64(2): 439–444.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2002b. “Reponses [to Nussbaum (2002), Zagzebski (2002), Quinn (2002), Wolf (2002)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64(2): 475–490.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2002c. “Science, Metaphysics, and Reality.” in VII. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongress. Nihil sine ratione. Mensch, Natur und Technik im Wirken von G. W. Leibniz. Schirmherrschaft: Der Regierende Bürgermeister von Berlin. Nachtragsband. Berlin, 10.-14. September 2001, edited by Hans Poser, Christoph Asmuth, Ursula Goldenbaum, and Wenchao Li, pp. 50–63. Hannover: Leibniz Gesellschaft.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2003a. “The Silence of God in the Thought of Martin Buber.” Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 30(1–4): 51–68.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2003b. “Anti-Consequentialism and the Transcendence of the Good.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67(1): 114–132.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2005a. “Moral Necessity.” in Leibniz. Nature and Freedom, edited by Donald P. Rutherford and Jan A. Cover, pp. 181–193. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195143744.001.0001.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2005b. “Faith and Religious Knowledge.” in The Cambridge Companion to Friedrich Schleiermacher, edited by Jacqueline Mariña, pp. 35–52. Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2006a. A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199207510.001.0001.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2006b. “Review of Zagzebski (2004).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73(2): 493–497.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2007a. “Idealism Vindicated.” in Persons. Human and Divine, edited by Peter van Inwagen and Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. 35–54. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2007b. “Les théories de l’actualité.” in Métaphysique Contemporaine: Propriétés, mondes possibles et personnes, edited by Emmanuelle Garcia and Frédéric Nef, pp. 227–253. Textes clés. Paris: Librairie philosophique Jean Vrin. Traduction de Adams, R. M. (1974) par Filipe Drapeau-Contim.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2007c. “The Priority of the Perfect in the Philosophical Theology of the Continental Rationalists.” in Rationalism, Platonism, and God, edited by Michael R. Ayers, pp. 91–116. Proceedings of the British Academy n. 149. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.5871/bacad/9780197264201.001.0001.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2009a. “A Philosophical Autobiography.” in Metaphysics and the Good. Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams, edited by Samuel Newlands and Larry M. Jorgensen, pp. 16–32. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199542680.001.0001.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2009b. “Conflict.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 83: 115–132.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2009c. “Love and the Problem of Evil.” in The Positive Function of Evil, edited by Pedro Alexis Tabensky, pp. 1–13. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2010a. “A Theory of Virtue: Introductory Remarks [Précis of Adams, R. M. (2006a)].” Philosophical Studies 148(1): 133–134.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2010b. “A Theory of Virtue: Response to Critics [Doris (2010) and Kamtekar (2010)].” Philosophical Studies 148(1): 159–165.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2010c. “The Reception of Leibniz’s Philosophy in the Twentieth Century.” in Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, edited by G. A. John Rogers, Tom Sorell, and Jill Kraye, pp. 309–314. Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy n. 12. London: Routledge.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2011. “Philosophical Themes in Schleiermacher’s Christology.” Philosophia 39(3): 449–460.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2014. “Justice, Happiness, and Perfection in Leibniz’s City of God.” in New Essays on Leibniz’s Theodicy, edited by Larry M. Jorgensen and Samuel Newlands, pp. 197–217. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199660032.001.0001.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2016. “Human Autonomy and Theological Ethics.” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8(3): 3–20.
Adams, Robert Merrihew. 2021. What Is, and What is In Itself. A Systematic Ontology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780192856135.001.0001.
Shapiro, Ian and Adams, Robert Merrihew, eds. 1998a. Integrity and Conscience. Nomos, Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy n. 40. New York: New York University Press.
Shapiro, Ian and Adams, Robert Merrihew. 1998b. “Introduction.” in Integrity and Conscience, edited by Ian Shapiro and Robert Merrihew Adams, pp. 1–9. Nomos, Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy n. 40. New York: New York University Press.

Further References

Almog, Joseph, Perry, John R. and Wettstein, Howard K., eds. 1989. Themes from Kaplan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dancy, Jonathan, ed. 1997. Reading Parfit. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Davis, Stephen T., ed. 1997. Philosophy and Theological Discourse. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. London: MacMillan Publishing Co.
Doris, John M. 2010. “Heated Agreement: Lack of Character as Being for the Good [on Adams, R. M. (2006a)].” Philosophical Studies 148(1): 135–146.
Geivett, R. Douglas and Sweetman, Brendan, eds. 1992. Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hick, John H. 1994. “Is the Doctrine of Atonement a Mistake?” in Reason and the Christian Religion: Essays in Honor of Richard Swinburne, edited by Alan G. Padgett, pp. 247–264. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reprinted in Davis (1997, 75–97).
Hooker, Michael, ed. 1982. Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive Essays. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Kamtekar, Rachana. 2010. “Comments on Adams, R. M. (2006a).” Philosophical Studies 148(1): 147–158.
Loux, Michael J., ed. 1979. The Possible and the Actual: Readings in the Metaphysics of Modality. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Mates, Benson. 1986. The Philosophy of Leibniz: Metaphysics and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195059468.001.0001.
Nussbaum, Martha Craven. 2002. “Transcendence and Human Values [on Adams, R. M. (1999)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64(2): 445–452.
Parfit, Derek. 1984. Reasons and Persons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/019824908X.001.0001.
Pereboom, Derk, ed. 1999. The Rationalists: Critical Essays on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. Critical Essays on the Classics. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
Peterson, Michael L., ed. 1992. The Problem of Evil. Selected Readings. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. Second edition: Peterson (2017).
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Plantinga, Alvin. 1974. The Nature of Necessity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0198244142.001.0001.
Quinn, Philip L. 2002. “Obligation, Divine Commands and Abraham’s Dilemma [on Adams, R. M. (1999)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64(2): 459–466.
Wolf, Susan M. 2002. “A World of Goods [on Adams, R. M. (1999)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64(2): 467–474.
Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus. 2002. “Obligation, Good Motives, and the Good [on Adams, R. M. (1999)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64(2): 453–458.
Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus. 2004. Divine Motivation Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.