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Offered here is Part 2 of a two-part critical survey of recent work in philosophy on divine hiddenness. Part 1 surveyed recent development of the discussion initiated by my 1993 book on the subject. Here, I examine some related work that expands the scope of the hiddenness discussion. Some of the enlargements take further the discussion of Stephen Maitzen's work on the demographics of theism. Others introduce new hiddenness problems and ways of dealing with them. A third category of new work urges theological constraints, of one sort or another, on hiddenness reasoning, thus raising new methodological issues.

Only 6 years have passed since I last published a critical survey article on the divine hiddenness discussion (Schellenberg, 2010a). But more than 60 papers and books dealing with hiddenness themes have been published in that time. Not all can be addressed here. Moreover, to enable a reasonable treatment of those that will make an appearance, I shall break the present survey into two parts. I begin in this piece with recent work—including my own—on the argument descended from Schellenberg (1993), which started the discussion. Part 2, yet to come, will consider ways in which this area of inquiry has recently been enlarged beyond its original parameters.

The osmium-silicon phase diagram was investigated by means of X-ray powder diffraction, differential thermal analysis, metallography, microprobe analysis and electrical resistivity measurements. The existence and type of formation of the following intermetallic compounds was established: OsSi, Os 2 Si 3 and OsSi 2 . These three compounds are semiconducting. A metastable phase was found at 67 at.% silicon.

On the basis of this extensive reinvestigation, an accurate equilibrium phase diagram of the entire Zr-Rh system is presented.