Robert Adams (philosopher)

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Robert Merrihew Adams (Bob Adams; born 1937) is an American philosopher of metaphysics, religion and morality. Adams taught for many years at UCLA before moving to Yale University in the early 1990s where, as chairman, he revived the department after several years of decline. Adams recently retired from Yale and now teaches part time at University of Oxford in England, where he is a fellow of Mansfield College. His wife, Marilyn McCord Adams, is also a philosopher, working on medieval philosophy and the philosophy of religion. Dr. Adams' work has focused largely on theological responses to the Problem of Evil in religious philosophy. A widely respected historical scholar, Dr. Adams has strong command of the work of the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and is a highly respected Leibniz scholar.

[edit] His works

• "Theories of Actuality", Noûs, 1974.
• "Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity", Journal of Philosophy, 1979.
• "Actualism and Thisness", Synthèse, 1983.
• "Time and Thisness", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 1986.
• The Virtue of Faith (Oxford, 1987).
• "Involuntary Sins", Philosophical Review, 1985.
• "Divine Commands and the Social Nature of Obligation" Faith and Philosophy, 1987.
• "The Knight of Faith", Faith and Philosophy, 1990.
• "Moral Faith", Journal of Philosophy, 1995.
• Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist (Oxford, 1994).
• "Things in Themselves", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1997.
• Finite and Infinite Goods (Oxford, 1999).