1.      The God Beyond Belief: In Defence of William Rowe’s Evidential Argument from Evil, with a Foreword by William L. Rowe (Dordrecht: Springer Publishing, 2007).

“This fine book consists of meticulous scholarship in the history of nearly thirty years’ work on God and evil, accompanied by acute, original criticism… This book is detailed, insightful, and clearly written. It will be useful to many philosophers working on the problem of evil.”

– Bruce Langtry, review in Religious Studies (vol. 44, 2008)

2.      The End of Philosophy of Religion (London: Continuum Books, 2008).

“This is an insightful, sensitive and judicious book, full of careful distinctions, and it avoids tirades or over the top criticisms of either side. The book will be of interest to students and faculty working in the areas of analytic and Continental philosophy of religion. There is a niche for this because there is very little sensible material out there, discussions of real worth, on the analytic/Continental divide.”
– John D. Caputo, Syracuse University

 
“Analytic philosophers tend to think of Continental philosophy as loose and literary, while Continental philosophers usually see analytic philosophy as narrow, pseudo-scientific, and abstracted from history. The best place for a conversation between them to begin is the philosophy of religion, and in his bold new work Nick Trakakis does just that. The result: a meta-philosophy of religion, one that will perhaps retire some old debates and rejuvenate the field by redirecting many of its concerns about substance and style.”
– Kevin J. Hart, University of Virginia

1.  William L. Rowe on Philosophy of Religion: Selected Writings, sole editor (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007).

2.  Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility, co-editor with Daniel Cohen (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).

Contributors include Robert Kane, John Martin Fischer, Derk Pereboom, J.J.C. Smart, Ishtayique Haji, and Saul Smilansky.

3.  A History of Western Philosophy of Religion, volumes 1-5, co-editor with Graham Oppy (London: Acumen, New York: Oxford University Press; due to be published in 2009). 

4.  Co-editor (with Graham Oppy, Lynda Burns, Fiona Leigh and Steve Gardner) of a series of works on the history of philosophy in Australasia, including:

• A History of Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand (Dordrecht: Springer Publishing, due to be published in 2010)
• A Companion to Australian and New Zealand Philosophy (Melbourne: Monash ePress, due to be published in 2009)
• The Antipodean Philosopher, vol. 1: Interviews with Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Philosophers (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, due to be published in 2010)
• The Antipodean Philosopher, vol. 2: Public Lectures on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, due to be published in 2010)

1.   (With Graham Oppy) “Religious Language Games”, in Andrew Moore and Michael Scott (eds), Realism and Religion: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007), pp.103-30.

2.  (With Graham Oppy) “Late Twentieth-Century Atheism”, in Oppy and Trakakis (eds), History of Western Philosophy of Religion, vol. 5, forthcoming. 

1.      “The Absolutist Theory of Omnipotence,” Sophia: International Journal for Philosophical Theology, vol. 36, no. 2, September-October 1997, pp.55-78.

2.      “The Ordination of Women in the Orthodox Church,” Mary/Martha, vol. 6, Spring/Summer 1998, pp.39-40.

3.   “On the Alleged Failure of Free Will Theodicies: A Reply to Tierno,” Sophia:

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics, vol. 42, no.2, October 2003, pp.99-106.

4.      “God, Gratuitous Evil, and van Inwagen’s Attempt to Reconcile the Two,” Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion [http://www.ArsDisputandi.org], vol. 3, 2003.

5.      “Evil and the Complexity of History: A Response to Durston,” Religious Studies, vol.39, no.4, December 2003, pp.451-458.

6.      “What No Eye Has Seen: The Skeptical Theist Response to Rowe’s Evidential Argument from Evil,” Philo: The Journal of the Society of Humanist Philosophers, vol.6, no.2, Fall-Winter 2003, pp.250-66.

7.   “Salvation in Heaven?” (with Graham Oppy and Yujin Nagasawa), Philosophical Papers, vol.33, no.1, March 2004, pp.95-117.

·        Reprinted in Graham Oppy, Arguing About Gods (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp.314-29.

8.   “Second Thoughts on the Alleged Failure of Free Will Theodicies,” Sophia:

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics, vol.43, no.2, October 2004, pp.87-93.

9.      “The Infallibility of the Church: An Unorthodox Perspective,” Theandros: An Online Journal of Orthodox Christian Theology and Philosophy [www.theandros.com], vol.2, no.1, Fall 2004.

10. “Skeptical Theism and Moral Skepticism: A Reply to Almeida and Oppy” (with

Yujin Nagasawa), Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion [http://www.ArsDisputandi.org], vol.4, 2004.

11.  “What was the Iconoclast Controversy About?”  Theandros: An Online Journal of Orthodox Christian Theology and Philosophy [www.theandros.com], vol.2, no.2, Winter 2004/2005.

12.  “Evil as Evidence Against the Existence of God”, Australian Rationalist, no. 69, Summer 2005, pp.13-20.

13. 15,000-word entry on “The Evidential Problem of Evil” for The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by James Fieser and Bradley Dowden, available at < http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/evil-evi.htm>, published April 2005.

14. “Piety and Pietism”, Theandros: An Online Journal of Orthodox Christian

Theology and Philosophy [www.theandros.com], vol. 2, no. 3, Spring 2005.

15.  “Is Theism Capable of Accounting for Any Natural Evil at All?” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 57, no. 1, 2005, pp.35-66.

16.  “Gregory Palamas on the Relationship Between Philosophy and Theology,”  Theandros: An Online Journal of Orthodox Christian Theology and Philosophy [www.theandros.com], vol. 3, no. 1, Fall 2005.

17. “An Interview with the Very Rev. Dr. Themistocles Adamopoulo, Apostle to the Poor and Oppressed”, Theandros: An Online Journal of Orthodox Christian Theology and Philosophy [www.theandros.com], vol. 3, no. 2, Winter 2005/2006.

·          Translated into Greek by Vivian Morris in Neos Kosmos [Melbourne newspaper], 13 September 2007, p.7.

·          Reprinted in part in Neos Kosmos English Weekly [Melbourne newspaper], 18 September 2007, pp.8-9.

18. “Why There Is Reason to Remain Sceptical of Durston’s Scepticism”, Religious Studies, vol. 42, 2006, pp.101-109.

19. “Nietzsche’s Perspectivism and Problems of Self-Refutation,” International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 1, March 2006, pp.91-110.

20. “Becoming Children: The Hidden Meaning of the Incarnation,” Theandros: An Online Journal of Orthodox Christian Theology and Philosophy [www.theandros.com], vol. 3, no. 3, Spring/Summer 2006.

21. “Rowe’s New Evidential Argument from Evil: Problems and Prospects”, Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics, vol. 45, no. 1, May 2006, pp.57-77.

22. “Does Hard Determinism Render the Problem of Evil even Harder?”, Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion [http://www.ArsDisputandi.org], vol. 6, 2006.

23. “Confronting the Horror of Natural Evil: An Exchange Between Peter Coghlan (Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Australian Catholic University) and Nick Trakakis”, Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics, vol. 45, no. 2, October 2006, pp.5-26.

24. “A Third (Meta-)Critique,” Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics, vol. 45, no. 2, October 2006, pp.139-42.

25. “Presence and Absence: The Paintings of Andrew Musgrave”, Literature and Aesthetics (Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics), December 2006 issue.

26. “An Epistemically Distant God? A Critique of John Hick’s Response to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness”, The Heythrop Journal 48 (2007): 214-26. 

27. “The Desert”, Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology, vol. 7, 2007, pp.491-95.

28. (With Monima Chadha) “Karma and the Problem of Evil: A Response to Kaufman”, Philosophy East & West, vol. 57, no. 4, October 2007, pp.533-56.

29. “Meta-Philosophy of Religion: The Analytic-Continental Divide in Philosophy of Religion”, Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion [http://www.ArsDisputandi.org], vol. 7, 2007.

30. “Whither Morality in a Hard Determinist World?”, Sorites, vol. 19, December 2007.

·              Reprinted in Nick Trakakis and Daniel Cohen (eds), Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility, pp.34-70.

31. (With Daniel Cohen) “Introduction” to Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility, pp.ix-xxii.

32. “Kazantzakis’ Poor Man of God: Philosophy without Philosophy”, Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique [www.colloquy.monash.edu.au], issue 15, June 2008.

33. “Theodicy: The Solution to the Problem of Evil, or Part of the Problem?”, Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics, vol. 47, no. 2, July 2008, pp.161-91.

1.      Hans-Johann Glock, The Rise of Analytic Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), in Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (1998): 515-16.

2.      Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul K. Moser (eds), Divine Hiddenness: New Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 54 (2003): 53-55.

3.   María J. Frápolli and Esther Romero (eds), Meaning, Basic Self-Knowledge, and Mind: Essays on Tyler Burge (Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 2003), in Metapsychology Online Book Reviews [http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2279], published August 5, 2004.   

4.      Richard Taylor, Understanding Marriage: Making It Work, or Knowing When to Leave (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004),” in Metapsychology Online Book Reviews [http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2389], published November 8, 2004.

5.      Nicholas Rescher, On Leibniz (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003),” in The Leibniz Review 14 (2004): 89-98.

6.   Ruth Garrett Millikan, Varieties of Meaning: The 2002 Jean Nicod Lectures (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004),” in Metapsychology Online Book Reviews [http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2516], published February 1, 2005.

7.      John Hyman and Helen Steward (eds), Agency and Action, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement: 55 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), in Metapsychology Online Book Reviews [http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2740], published July 24, 2005.

8.      David Burrell, Faith and Freedom: An Interfaith Perspective (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004), in The Philosophical Quarterly 56 (2006): 632-34.

9.      Clare O’Farrell, Michel Foucault (London: Sage, 2005),” in Metapsychology Online Book Reviews [http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=3635], published May 15, 2007.

10. Norman Wirzba and Bruce Ellis Benson (eds), Transforming Philosophy and Religion: Love’s Wisdom (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), in Faith and Philosophy, forthcoming.

11. Michael Murray, Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering (OUP, 2008), in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.

1.  Tears: 1993-2005 (published in 2005, 56pp).
2.  Silent Transfigurations (published in 2006, 80pp).
3.  Via Dolorosa (published in 2008, 187pp).

1.      “Defending the Faith of Our Fathers,” Hellenic Times, 4 January 1994, p.23.

2.      “Inheritance,” in Poetry Monash 65 (2002): 22.

3.      “Interview with William Rowe,” Philosophy Now, issue 47, August-September 2004, pp.16-18.

4.      “Ordinary World,” in Poetry Monash 69 (2004): 36.

5.      Entry on William Rowe in John R. Shook (ed.), Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2005), pp.2087-89.

6.      Article on the problem of evil for the “Faith” column in The Sunday Age [Melbourne newspaper], 9 January 2005, p.16.

7.   Response to David Miller’s critique of my paper, “Evil as Evidence Evidence Against the Existence of God”, Australian Rationalist, no. 71, Spring 2005, pp.51-52.

8.   “Against Militancy,” Australian Book Review, April 2006, p.4 (this is a reply to Tamas Pataki’s “Against Religion,” Australian Book Review, February 2006, pp.36-41); Tamas Pataki’s response is published on p.6 of the April 2006 issue.

9.   Entries on “Georges Bataille” and “Emmanuel Levinas” for Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy, forthcoming.

10. Three poems published in Antipodes (periodical of the Greek-Australian Cultural League of Melbourne), vol. 54, 2008, pp.107-108.