Publications

1.     Penner, M. A., Cordero, A. M., & Nichols, A. J.. (2023). Sex Determination and the Human Person. TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology7(1).

 

2.     “Realism About Molecular Structures,” in Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics, Eds. Insa Lawler, Kareem Khalifa, and Elay Shech. Routledge (2022): 178-198. With Amanda Nichols.

 

3.    “Lived Faith and Cognitive Intuitions: Some Theological Implications of Cognitive Science of Religion,” forthcoming in Oxford Handbook to Cognitive Science of Religion, Ed. Justin Barrett. Oxford University Press (2022): 411-429. With Laird R. O. Edman.

 

4.     “Selective Scientific Realism and Truth-Transfer in Theories of Molecular Structure,” in Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge from the History of Science. Eds. Peter Vickers and Timothy D. Lyons. Oxford University Press (2021):130-158. With Amanda Nichols.

 

5.     Recovering from the Anabaptist Vision: New Essays on Anabaptist Identity and Theological Method. Edited by Laura Schmidt Roberts, Paul H. Martens, and Myron A. Penner. T&T Clark: New York (February, 2020).

 

6.     “Nuclear Chemistry and Medicine: Why Young-Earthers Can’t have it Both Ways,” Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith Vol. 71 (December 2019):203-217. With Amanda Nichols.

 

7.    “On the Objective Meaningful Life Argument: A Reply to Kirk Lougheed,” Dialogue, Vol. 57 (March 2018):173-182.

 

8.     “Cognitive Science of Religion, Atheism, and Theism,” Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 35 (2018):105-131.

 

9.     “Arguments from Evil and Evidence for Pro-Theism,” in Does God Matter: Essays on the Axiological Consequences of Theism, Klaas J. Kraay ed. Routledge (2017):192-202. With Ben Arbour.

 

10.     “John Stackhouse’s Vocation-Centered Epistemology,” Journal of Analytic Theology, Vol. 4 (2016):211-214.

 

11.     “Pro-theism and the Added Value of Morally Good Agents,” Philosophia Christi 17 (2015):53-70. With Kirk Lougheed.

 

12.    “Personal Anti-Theism and the Meaningful Life Argument,” Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 32 (2015):325-337.

 

13.    “Religious Skepticism,” Toronto Journal of Theology, Vol. 30 (2014):111-130.

 

14.     “Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Rational World-Choice,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. Vol. 75: (2014):13-25.

 

15.     “The Rise of ‘New Calvinists’ Among Canadian Mennonite Brethren,” Direction. Vol. 42 (2013):148-165.

 

16.  “Analytic Philosophy, Theism, and Contemporary Philosophy of Religion,” Toronto Journal of Theology, Vol. 29 (2013):265-270.

 

17.     “Divine Creation and Perfect Goodness in a ‘No-Best-World’ Scenario,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. Vol. 59 (2006):25-47.

 

18.     “Minority Views and the Wider World: Yoder and Plantinga on Particularity” in Nathan E. Yoder, and Carol A Scheppard, eds., Exiles in the Empire (Pandora Press, 2006):149-71.

 

19.     “The Pacifist’s Burden of Proof,” Philosophia Christi. Vol. 7, no. 1 (2005):107-123.

 

20.     “Why Mennonite Pacifists Should Be Reformed Epistemologists,” Conrad Grebel Review. Vol. 22 (Spring 2003):24-32.

21.     “Normativity in Deleuze and Guattari’s Concept of Philosophy” Continental Philosophy Review. Vol. 36 (March 2003):45-59.


22.     “The Quest for Natural Ontological Attitudes Within the Limits of Reason,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2002):103-16.