Academic Articles

A Russellian Philosophy of Philosophy: Systematicity, Entitlement, and the End of Days

in Aaron Segal and Nicholas Strang (eds.), Systematic Metaphysics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Oxford University Press

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A Design-Argument-Inspired, Midrashic Epistemology of Religion

in E.V.R. Kojonen, Shoaib A. Malik, Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions: History, Metaphysics, and Science, New York: Routledge, 2025, pp. 165-181

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Religion, hypocrisy, and betting on secularity: reversing Smilansky's wager

With Danny Statman, in Religious Studies 60 (2024): 174-186

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Amen to daat: on the foundations of Jewish epistemology

Religious Studies 59(S3): 465-478 (2023)

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Time for some Robust Atonement

Faith and Philosophy 40/1 (2023): 1-21

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Hassidic Idealism and The Meaning of Life

In Kirk Lougheed (ed.), Value Beyond Monotheism: The Axiology of the Divine

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Defining Religion

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Volume 10: 145-168 (2022)

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One God, One Truth, Many Languages: Rabbi Sacks' Pluralism Reexamined

Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, 54(2): 74-100 (2022)

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Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: An Argument for Anti-Nihilism

In Sara Bernstein and Tyron Goldschmidt (eds), Non-Being: New Essays on the Metaphysics of Nonexistence (Oxford University Press 2021)

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Judaism and Providence

With Tyron Goldschmidt, in Kelly Clark, and Jeffrey Koperski (eds.), Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence, Palgrave Macmillan 2021

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Revelation Through Concealment: Kabbalistic Responses to God’s Hiddennes

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 12/2 (2020):89-108

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Dormant Dispositions, Agent Value, and the Trinity

With Dale Tuggy, Journal for Analytic Theology, 7:142-155 (2019)

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Is there a Primordial Torah?

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 82(2): 216-239 (2017)

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An Advertisement of a Promise

With Tyron Goldschmidt, Journal of Analytic Theology, 5: 629-636 (2017)

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Hassidic Idealism: Kurt Vonnegut and the Creator of the Universe

In Tyron Goldshmidt and Kenneth Pearce (eds), Idealism: New Essays, Oxford University Press, 2017

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Would this Paper Exist if I hadn’t written it?

Philosophical Studies, 172 (11):3059-3080 (2015)

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True Succession and Counterfactual Approval

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 2 (10): 26-31 (2013)

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A Substantive Non-Solution to the Problem of Unity

The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, Volume 4 (2008)

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David Shatz and the Puzzle of the Right and the True

in Rynhold, Segal and Weiss (eds.) Keter David – David’s Diadem: An Examined Torah Life – Essays in Honor of Prof. David Shatz, Academic Press, forthcoming.

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The Apple of God's Eye: A Biblical Account of Holiness

Religious Studies, 2025, 61(4): 850-864

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Omnipotence: Dean Zimmerman, Negative Nelly and the Divine Delegates

TheoLogica 8/2 (2024): Essays in Honour of Dean Zimmerman

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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Maimonides on the Afterlife—Updated

Religions 14, 1538 (2023)

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Does Judaism Recognize the Supererogatory?

In David Heyd (ed.), Handbook of Supererogation, Springer 2023.

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Evolution and the Genre of Scripture: Why Evolution Shouldn’t Bother Jewish Theology

Theology and Science 21/4 (2023): 599-616

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Response to Critics

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 14/4: 340-358

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Proselytism as Epistemic Violence: A Jewish Approach to the Ethics of Religious Persuasion

The Monist, 104/3: 376–392 (2021)

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Will I get a job? Contextualism, Belief, and Faith

Synthese, 199 (3-4):5769-5790 (2021)

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Missing, presumed not dead

Philosophia, 49(3), 1043-1050 (2021)

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Pascal, Pascalberg, and Friends

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 87/1:109-130 (2020)

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Nothing Else

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 11/2:91-110 (2019)

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Russell and Bradley: Revisiting the Creation Narrative of Analytic Philosophy

Journal for the History of Analytic Philosophy 5(7):1-10Journal for the History of Analytic Philosophy 5(7):1-10 (2017)

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The Life of Faith as a Work of Art: A Rabbinic Theology of Faith

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 81(1): 61-81 (2017)

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Negative Theology as Illuminating/Therapeutic Falsehood

In Michael Fagenblat (ed), Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity, Indiana University Press, 2017

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God and His Imaginary Friends: A Hassidic Metaphysics

Religious Studies, 51(2):183-204 (2015)

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Counterfactual Approval and Idiosyncratic Counterfactual Approval

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (2013)

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Was Rabbi Sacks a Theological Maverick or Mystical Traditionalist?

Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, 2025, 57(4):204-224

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Give Truth to Jacob

in E. Stump and J Wolfe, Biblical Narratives and Human Flourishing: Knowledge Through Narrative, New York: Routledge, 2024: 95-114

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The Unlikely Comeback of Pascal’s Wager: On the Instability of Secular Post-Modernism

Philosophica, 51: 337–348 (2023)

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Creation and Modality: A Response to Ryan Mullins

Philosophia Christi, 25/1 (2023): 45-59

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Classical Theism and Jewish Conceptions of God

In Jonathan Fuqua, Robert C. Koons (eds.), Classical Theism and Jewish Conceptions of God (Routledge: 2023)

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Is God a Person? Maimonides, Crescas, and Beyond

Religious Studies, 58(S1): 34-60 (2022)

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Is God Person? Maimonidean and Neo-Maimonidean Perspectives

In Georg Gasser and Simon Kittle (eds.), The Divine Nature: Personal and A-personal Perspectives, Routledge 2022

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Abraham's Empty Altars

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 12 (3): 65-86 (2021)

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On where God isn’t: excrement and the philosophy of religion; two Jewish perspectives

Religious Studies, 57/4: 717-731 (2021)

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Divine Contractions: Theism gives birth to Idealism

With Tyron Goldschmidt, Religious Studies, 2020, 56/4: 509-524

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A Commentary on a Midrash: Metaphors about Metaphor

In Samuel Lebens, Dani Rabinowitz, and Aaron Segal (eds), Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age, Oxford University Press, 2019

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Are you Experienced?

In Graham Oppy, Gregory Dawes, Evan Fales, Joseph Koterski, Mashhad Al-Allaf, Robert Fastiggi, and David Shatz (eds), Theism and Atheism: Opposing Arguments in Philosophy, Macmillan Reference, 2019

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The Ashes of Isaac

Journal of Analytic Theology, 5:500-514 (2017)

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The Promise of a New Past

With Tyron Goldschmidt, Philosophers’ Imprint, 17(18):1-25 (2017)

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Reconciling Imagery and Doctrine

In Daniel Franks and Aaron Segal (eds), Jewish Philosophy Past and Present: Contemporary Responses to Classical Sources, Routledge, 2016

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Why so Negative about Negative Theology: The Search for a Platinga-Proof Apophaticism

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 76(3): 259-275 (2014)