William Hasker (Ph.D.,
Prof. Hasker is the author of Metaphysics (InterVarsity, 1983), God, Time, and Knowledge (Cornell 1989), The Emergent Self (Cornell 1999),
Selected publications
Books
- The Triumph of God over Evil: Theodicy for a World of Suffering, Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, forthcoming 2008.
- Providence, Evil, and the Openness of God, London: Routledge, 2004.
- Middle Knowledge: Theory and Applications, edited, with David Basinger and Eef Dekker, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2000.
- The Emergent Self, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999; paperback edition 2001.
- Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, edited, with Michael Peterson, David Basinger, and Bruce Reichenbach, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996; Second Edition 2001; Third Edition 2007.
- The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God, with Clark Pinnock, Richard Rice, John Sanders, and David Basinger, Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1994.
- Reason and Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, with Michael Peterson, David Basinger, and Bruce Reichenbach, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991; also published in Korean, Persian, Russian, Norwegian (Formuft och religios tro: En inledning till relgionsfilosofin, Nora: Nya Doxa, 1997), and Chinese (Renmin University Press, 2005); Second Edition, 1998; Third Edition, 2003.
- God, Time, and Knowledge, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989; paperback edition, 1998. Part of ch. 2 reprinted in Middle Knowledge: Theory and Applications, pp. 66-76.
- Metaphysics: Constructing a Worldview, Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1983.
Entries in Encyclopedias and Reference Works
- “Afterlife,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward M. Zalta, (Spring 2006 edition), http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/afterlife/
- “Analytic Philosophy of Religion,” in William J. Wainwright, ed., The Oxford Handbook for Philosophy of Religion, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 421-46.
- "Creation and Conservation, Religious Doctrine of," "Occasionalism," and "Providence," in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward Craig, Editor, London: Routledge, 1998.
- "Theism and Evolutionary Biology," in Philip Quinn and Charles Taliaferro, eds., A Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, London: Blackwell, 1997; revised edition forthcoming 2008.
- "Epistemology, Religious," in Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, David M. Borchert, Editor, New York: MacMillan, 1996.
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"Evidentialism," "Justification by Faith," "Middle Knowledge,"and "Self-Referential Incoherence," in Robert M. Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995; second edition 1999.
Papers on science and religion
- “The Emergence of Persons,” in James Stump and Alan Padgett, eds. A Companion to
Christianity and Science, London: Blackwell, forthcoming. - "Theism and Evolutionary Biology," in Philip Quinn and Charles Taliaferro, eds., A Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, London: Blackwell, 1997; revised edition 2010.
- “Souls Beastly and Human,” in Mark C. Baker and Stewart Goetz, eds., The Soul Hypothesis: Investigations into the Existence of the Soul (New York: Continuum, 2011), pp. 202-17.
- “Intelligent Design,” Philosophy Compass, 2009, online at DOI 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00213.x.
- “How Not to Be A Reductivist,” in Irreducibly Conscious: Selected Papers on Consciousness,, ed. Alexander Battyany and Avshalom Elitzur (Heidelberg: Universitäsverlag Winter, 2009), pp. 73-93.
- "Darwin on Trial Revisited," Christian Scholar’s Review XXIV:4 (May 1995), pp. 479-488.
"Mr. Johnson for the Prosecution," Christian Scholar’s Review XXII:2 (December 1992), pp. 177-86. - "Evolution and Alvin Plantinga," Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 44:3 (September 1992), pp. 150-62.
- "Brains and Persons," in The Reality of Christian Learning: Strategies for Faith-Discipline Integration, ed. Harold Heie and David L. Wolfe, Grand Rapids: Christian Universities Press and William B. Eerdmans, 1987, pp. 181-203.
- "MacKay on Being a Responsible Mechanism: Freedom in a Clockwork Universe," Christian Scholar’s Review 8 (1978), pp. 130-140.