Jonathan Kvanvig

Jonathan Kvanvig

Jonathan Kvanvig is a Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. [ [http://www3.baylor.edu/~Jonathan_Kvanvig/ Kvanvig at Baylor University] ]

Kvanvig is also an author, best known for his book "The Problem of Hell" (published 1993) which debates Hell in a modern theological and philosophical way.

He is the owner and administrator of the blog "Certain Doubts", which covers topics related to epistemology. [ [http://fleetwood.baylor.edu/certain_doubts/?page_id=417 About "Certain Doubts"] ]

elected Bibliography

* "Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion", ed., Volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. (Contributors: Finch & Rea, Fischer, Frances, Hajek, Koons, O'Connor, Pruss, Senor, Stump, van Inwagen, Zagzebski)
* "The Knowability Paradox", Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. (Paperback Edition 2008).
* "The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding", New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. (Paperback Edition 2007; Chapter One reprinted in Duncan Pritchard and Ram Neta, eds., Arguing About Knowledge, London: Routledge, 2008.)
* "Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology: Essays in Honor of Plantinga's Theory of Knowledge",ed., Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. (Contributors: BonJour, Conee, Feldman, Foley, Klein, Kvanvig, Lehrer, Lycan, Markie, Pappas, Plantinga, Sosa, Swain, van Fraassen).
* "The Problem of Hell", New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0195084870, 1993.
* "The Intellectual Virtues and the Life of the Mind: On the Place of the Virtues in Contemporary Epistemology", in the Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory Series, Paul K. Moser, general editor, Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1992.
* "The Possibility of an All-Knowing God", London: Macmillan Press Ltd., Library of Philosophy and Religion, John Hick, general editor, 1986, and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.

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