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Professor Christopher Insole's Outputs (37)

Negative natural theology: God and the limits of reason (2024)
Book
Insole, C. J. (2024). Negative natural theology: God and the limits of reason. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198933007.001.0001

How can we live in harmony with the universe, and not just in it? What is it to feel at home in the world? Some thinkers who feel the force of these questions reach for the concept of God. Others do not. This book asks what might be at stake in the c... Read More about Negative natural theology: God and the limits of reason.

A Kantian Response to the Problem of Evil: Living in the Moral World (2023)
Journal Article
Insole, C. J. (2023). A Kantian Response to the Problem of Evil: Living in the Moral World. Religions, 14(2), Article 227. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020227

James Sterba has presented a powerful and existentially sincere form of the problem of evil, arguing that it is logically impossible for God to exist, given that there are powerful moral requirements to prevent evil, where one can, and that these req... Read More about A Kantian Response to the Problem of Evil: Living in the Moral World.

Free Belief: The Medieval Heritage in Kant’s Moral Faith (2019)
Journal Article
Insole, C. (2019). Free Belief: The Medieval Heritage in Kant’s Moral Faith. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 57(3), 501-528. https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2019.0056

I argue that insofar as Kant describes faith as a free-choice, he is aligned with the medieval tradition, and with his own sources that mediate this heritage (in particular, Leibniz and Locke). The medieval tradition consistently, affirmatively, and... Read More about Free Belief: The Medieval Heritage in Kant’s Moral Faith.

Realism and Anti-Realism (2017)
Book Chapter
Insole, C. J. (2017). Realism and Anti-Realism. In W. J. Abraham, & F. D. Aquino (Eds.), Oxford Handbook to the Epistemology of Testimony. Oxford University Press

Kant on Christianity, Religion and Politics: Three Hopes, Three Limits (2015)
Journal Article
Insole, C. (2016). Kant on Christianity, Religion and Politics: Three Hopes, Three Limits. Studies in Christian Ethics, 29(1), 14-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946815611111

This article makes two key claims in succession. First of all, Kant’s own religious hope is significantly and studiedly distanced from the traditions of Christianity that he would have received, in ways that have not yet been fully, or widely, apprec... Read More about Kant on Christianity, Religion and Politics: Three Hopes, Three Limits.

Edmund Burke and the Natural Law (2012)
Book Chapter
Insole, C. (2012). Edmund Burke and the Natural Law. In C. Insole, & D. Dwan (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke. Cambridge University Press

A Metaphysical Kant: A Theological Lingua Franca? (2012)
Journal Article
Insole, C. J. (2012). A Metaphysical Kant: A Theological Lingua Franca?. Studies in Christian Ethics, 25(2), 206-214. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946811435385

I track a strand of intellectualist theology, running from Kant’s pre-critical into his critical work, whereby the divine will is constrained in its creative activity by the divine understanding. I suggest that Kant’s intellectualist theology continu... Read More about A Metaphysical Kant: A Theological Lingua Franca?.

Intellectualism, Relational Properties and the Divine Mind in Kant's Pre-Critical Philosophy (2011)
Journal Article
Insole, C. (2011). Intellectualism, Relational Properties and the Divine Mind in Kant's Pre-Critical Philosophy. Kantian Review, 16(3), 399-427. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1369415411000203

I demonstrate that the pre-Critical Kant is essentialist and intellectualist about the relational properties of substances. That is to say, God can choose whether or not to create a substance, and whether or not to connect this substance with other s... Read More about Intellectualism, Relational Properties and the Divine Mind in Kant's Pre-Critical Philosophy.