Musical melodies are recognized on the basis of pitch and temporal relations between consecutive tones. Although some previous evidence (e.g., Saffran & Griepentrog, 2001) points to an absolute-to-relative developmental shift in listeners' perception of pitch, other evidence (e.g., Plantinga & Trainor, 2005; Schellenberg & Trehub, 2003) suggests that both absolute- and relative-pitch processing...

I answer Alvin Plantinga’s challenge to provide a ‘proper’ de jure objection to religious belief. What I call the ‘sophisticates’ evidential objection’ (SEO) concludes that sophisticated Christians lack epistemic justification for believing central Christian propositions. The SEO utilizes a theory of epistemic justification in the spirit of the evidentialism of Richard Feldman and Earl Conee. I...

Forest fragmentation is a primary threat to terrestrial biodiversity. We combine a parcel-level econometric model of land-use transitions with spatially-explicit landscape simulations to predict the empirical distribution of fragmentation outcomes under given market conditions and policy scenarios. Our model explains transitions between forest, agricultural, and urban uses, allowing us to model...

The cosmological argument – the argument from contingency to the existence of a necessary First Cause – forms the core of a long-standing research program in philosophical theology. Even if such theistic arguments are, as Plantinga has demonstrated, unnecessary for the reasonableness of theistic belief, a successful proof would by all accounts have considerable significance. The cosmological ar...

Neste artigo, discuto o uso do termo “documental” como forma de caracterizar um segmento trabalho artístico com gravações campo. Primeiramente, observo projeto documentação em trabalhos fotografia e cinema foi colocado sob suspeita durante a segunda metade século XX. Em seguida, tomando ponto partida concepção documentário cinematográfico apresentada por Carl Plantinga, proponho que não precisa...

The Christian Church has traditionally held that the inspiration of Holy Scripture is verbal, plenary, and confluent. But such an affirmation may seem to be incoherent. For if Scripture is the product of both divine and human free agency, then it seems impossible that God should have sufficient control of the various authors of Scripture so as to produce a Word that is verbally and plenarily hi...

This paper presents the first purely numerical (i.e., non-algebraic) subdivision algorithm for the iso-topic approximation of a simple arrangement of curves. The arrangement is “simple” in the sense thatany three curves have no common intersection, any two curves intersect transversally, and each curve isnon-singular. A curve is given as the zero set of an analytic function f : R → ...