David William Brown FBA FRSE, is an Anglican priest and British scholar of philosophy, theology, religion, and the arts. He taught at the universities of Oxford, Durham, and St. Andrews before retiring in 2015. He is well-known for his non-punitive theory of purgatory, his defense of specific versions of social Trinitarianism and kenotic Christology, his…
Nathan A. Jacobs is a philosopher, artist, and filmmaker. He is a Visiting Scholar of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. Jacobs holds advanced degrees in Philosophy, Historical and Systematic Theology, Church History, and Fine Art. He has served as a professor and lecturer at such schools as Calvin College and Seminary, Trinity College…
Barry Loewer is a philosopher and Chairperson of the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is also the director of the Rutgers Center for Philosophy and the Sciences. His specialities include philosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mind. He received his BA in Philosophy, Mathematics, and Greek from Amherst College. He…
Tim Maudlin is a philosopher of science and a Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He received his B.A. in Physics and Philosophy from Yale University. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His interests are focused in the foundations of physics, metaphysics, and…
Michael Rea is Rev. John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame since 2001. His research focuses primarily on topics in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and analytic theology. He has has written or…
Andy Clark is a British philosopher who is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex. Before this, he was a professor of philosophy and Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Clark is one…
David Bentley Hart is an American Orthodox Christian philosophical theologian, cultural commentator and polemicist. Engaging heavily with classical, medieval and continental European philosophical systems as well as with Dharmic, biblical and patristic texts, Hart’s works have addressed topics ranging from ontology and comparative mythology to theological aesthetics and existentialism. He earned his Bachelor of Arts…
Meghan Sullivan is the Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy and the Director of Notre Dame Institute of Advanced Study. Sullivan has degrees from UVa (BA with highest distinction: Philosophy and Politics – 2005), Oxford (B.Phil: Philosophy – 2007), and Rutgers (PhD: Philosophy – 2011). She studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Sullivan has…
Louis Caruana SJ is a Jesuit priest ordained in 1991 and holds degrees in science, philosophy, and theology. He obtained his doctorate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. He is now Dean of the Philosophy Faculty of the Gregorian University in Rome and Professor of Philosophy, and Adjunct Scholar…
David Wallace is a Mellon Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Wallace’s original training was in theoretical physics: he took a Physics PhD at Oxford before his interests took him towards more conceptual and foundational questions in physics, and from there into philosophy. Wallace’s research interests are mostly in…
Eric Schwitzgebel is Professor of Philosophy at University of California at Riverside. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford in 1990 and his PhD in Philosophy from U.C. Berkeley in 1997, under the supervision of Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Alison Gopnik, and John Searle. He has published two books and over twenty articles on the…
Peter van Inwagen is an American analytic philosopher and the John Cardinal O’Hara Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his PhD from the University of Rochester under the direction of Richard Taylor and Keith Lehrer. Today, Van Inwagen is one of the leading figures in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of…