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    Fanning the Flickers of Freedom.Daniel Speak - 2002 - American Philosophical Quarterly 39 (1):91 - 105.
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    Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns.Kevin Timpe & Daniel Speak (eds.) - 2016 - Oxford: Oxford University Press UK.
    This volume presents a systematic exploration of the relationship between religious beliefs and various accounts of free will in the contemporary domain. With a particular eye on how theological commitments might shape our views about the nature of free will, a team of leading experts in the field explores an important gap in the current debate. They focus their attention on this crucial point of intellectual intersection with surprising and illuminating results.
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  3. The consequence argument revisited.Daniel Speak - 2011 - In Robert Kane (ed.), Oxford Handbook on Free Will, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. pp. 115-130.
     
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  4. The impertinence of Frankfurt-style argument.Daniel James Speak - 2007 - Philosophical Quarterly 57 (226):76-95.
    Discussions of the principle of alternative possibilities have largely ignored the limits of what Frankfurt-style counter-examples can show. Rather than challenging the coherence of the cases, I argue that even if they are taken to demonstrate the falsity of the principle, they cannot advance the compatibilist cause. For a forceful incompatibilist argument can be constructed from the Frankfurtian premise that agents in Frankfurtian circumstances would have done what they did even if they could have done something else. This 'counterfactual stability' (...)
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  5. Papistry: Another defense.Daniel Speak - 2005 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 29 (1):262-268.
  6. Death and the psychological conception of personal identity.John Martin Fischer & Daniel Speak - 2000 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 24 (1):84–93.
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    Toward an Axiological Defense of Libertarianism.Daniel Speak - 2004 - Philosophical Topics 32 (1-2):353-369.
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    Salvation without belief.Daniel Speak - 2007 - Religious Studies 43 (2):229-236.
    In the Christian tradition, it is rather natural to assume that a person can receive salvation only if she believes that certain crucial and relevant propositions are true. Louis Pojman has, however, attacked this assumption. He has formulated what I call the 'ethics' argument against the claim that belief is necessary for salvation. After explicating this argument, I complain that it is based on an unnecessarily controversial premise and that it proves too little. I then construct a parallel argument to (...)
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    The problem of evil.Daniel Speak - 2015 - Malden, MA: Polity Press.
    The most forceful philosophical objections to belief in God arise from the existence of evil. Bad things happen in the world and it is not clear how this is compatible with the existence of an all-powerful and perfectly loving being. Unsurprisingly then, philosophers have formulated powerful arguments for atheism based on the existence of apparently unjustified suffering. These arguments give expression to what we call the problem of evil. This volume is an engaging introduction to the philosophical problem of evil. (...)
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    Free Will and Soul‐Making Theodicies.Daniel Speak - 2014 - In Justin P. McBrayer & Daniel Howard-Snyder (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to The Problem of Evil. Wiley. pp. 205–221.
    Appeals to the respective values of free will and of moral and spiritual development (soul‐making) have long been lynchpins in the project of theodicy. The two most prominent contemporary efforts at systematic and comprehensive theodicy have been executed by John Hick and Richard Swinburne, both of whom appeal explicitly to these values. This chapter sympathetically explicates their appeals to these values and considers some of the challenges facing any theodicy that follows them in doing so.
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    Domination and the Free Will Defense.Daniel Speak - 2015 - Faith and Philosophy 32 (3):313-324.
    Few arguments have enjoyed as strong a reputation for philosophical success as Alvin Plantinga’s free will defense. Despite the striking reputation for decisiveness, however, concerns about the success of the FWD have begun to trickle into the philosophical literature. In a recent article in this journal, Alexander Pruss has contributed to this flow with an intriguing argument that a proposition necessary to the success of Plantinga’s FWD is false. Specifically, Pruss has argued, contrary to the FWD, that, necessarily, God is (...)
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    Semi-compatibilism and stalemate.Daniel Speak - 2005 - Philosophical Explorations 8 (2):95-102.
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    Guest Editor’s Introduction: Leading the Way.Daniel Speak - 2008 - The Journal of Ethics 12 (2):123-128.
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    Libertarianism, Luck, and Gift.Daniel Speak - 2011 - Modern Schoolman 88 (1-2):29-49.
    According to libertarianism, free will requires indeterminism. Many opponents of libertarianism have suggested that indeterminism would inject luck or chance into human action in a problematic way. Alfred Mele’s recent “contrast argument” is an especially clear effort to make this kind of objection to libertarianism precise. This paper is response to the contrast argument on behalf of libertarianism. I argue that worries about luck and chance, enshrined in the contrast argument, arise largely from confusion and lack of imagination. I address (...)
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  15. Introduction to Free Will and Theism.Kevin Timpe & Daniel Speak - 2016 - In Kevin Timpe & Daniel Speak (eds.), Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns. Oxford: Oxford University Press UK. pp. 1-26.
    Concerns both about the nature of free will and about the credibility of theistic belief and commitment have long preoccupied philosophers. This is just to make the obvious point that philosophical questions about whether we enjoy free will and about whether God exists are truly perennial. In addition, there can be no denying that the history of philosophical inquiry into these two questions has been dynamic and, at least to some degree, integrated. In a great many cases, classical answers to (...)
     
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    Fischer and Avoidability.Daniel James Speak - 1999 - Faith and Philosophy 16 (2):239-247.
    In a recent exchange, John M. Fischer and David Widerker have debated whether or not it is appropriate to employ Frankfurt-style examples in efforts to challenge the intuitively plausible “principle of alternative possibilities.” Most recently, David Widerker and Charlotte Katzoff have tried to defend Widerker’s initial claim that such examples beg the question against libertarianism. As a libertarian sympathizer, I would like very much for these arguments to go through. However, I argue here that (1) their “molinist” critique is off-target, (...)
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    Hope and the Hiddenness of God.Daniel Speak - 2017 - The Philosophers' Magazine 78:32-36.
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    Hugh McCann, ed. Free Will and Classical Theism: The Significance of Freedom in Perfect Being Theology.Daniel Speak - 2019 - Journal of Analytic Theology 7 (1):759-764.
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  19. Moral Responsibility and the Relevance of Alternative Possibilities.Daniel James Speak - 2002 - Dissertation, University of California, Riverside
    My dissertation is a systematic defense of the moral relevance of alternative possibilities. As such, it constitutes an attack on semi-compatibilism. ;To begin, then, I defend alternative possibilities against three related but independent lines of criticism. The most prominent of these is Harry Frankfurt's now famous counterexample strategy in which cases are constructed that purport to show that a person can, in fact, be responsible even when he cannot do otherwise. Another line of criticism is John Fischer's "flicker of freedom" (...)
     
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    On the possibility of making even more sense of freedom and responsibility.Daniel Speak - 2013 - Philosophical Studies 163 (1):117-122.
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    Willard, Warfare, and Free Will.Daniel Speak - 2008 - Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 1 (2):207-216.
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    Conceptually Adequate Freedom. [REVIEW]Daniel Speak - 2006 - Philosophia Christi 8 (2):475-480.
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    Freedom, Teleology, and Evil. [REVIEW]Daniel Speak - 2011 - Faith and Philosophy 28 (3):341-344.
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    Review of John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, Manuel Vargas, Four Views on Free Will[REVIEW]Daniel Speak - 2008 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (5).