Education
B.A., University of Minnesota, 1975
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1984
Expertise
Philosophy of Religion
Selected Publications
Book
The Agnostic Inquirer: Revelation from a Philosophical Standpoint (with Thomas D. Sullivan), Eerdmans Publishing, 2007, 347pp.
Articles
"Revelation and Miracles" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), in The Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical Theology, ed. Charles Taliaferro and Chad Meister, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
"The Insufficiency of Any Secular Case for Absolute Human Rights and the Resources of Divine Revelation: The Suicide Argument" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), in The Healing Power of Divine Revelation, ed. Paul Gavrilyuk, Douglas Koskela, and Jason Vickers, Eerdmans Publishing, forthcoming.
"Religious Belief for the Rest of Us: Reflections on Reformed Epistemology" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), God Matters: Readings in the Philosophy of Religion (New York: Longman Press, 2002), pp. 244 - 255.
"The Existence of God and the Existence of Homer: Rethinking Theism and Revelatory Claims" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 3 (July 2002), pp. 331 - 347.
"The Problem of the Continuant: Aquinas and Suarez on Prime Matter and Substantial Generation" (with John D. Kronen and Thomas D. Sullivan), The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 53 (June 2000), pp. 863 - 885.
"Does God Will Evil?" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), The Monist, Vol. 80, No. 4 (1997), pp. 598 - 610.
"Grading Worlds," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Annual Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. LXX (1996), pp. 149 - 161.
"Must God Create?" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 12, No. 3 (July 1995), pp. 321 - 341.
"The Existential Problem of Evil: Reflections on the Analogy Between Creation and Procreation," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Annual Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. LXVIII (1994), pp. 229 - 246.
"Critical Thinking and the Construction of Knowledge," American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 37, No. 1 (September/October 1993), pp. 85 - 93.
"God Does Not Harden Hearts" (with Thomas D. Sullivan), American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Annual Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. LXVII (1993), pp. 119 - 134.
Works Edited
Consulting Editor, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, University of St. Thomas, 2004 - the present.
Co-editor, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, University of St. Thomas, 1998 - 2003.
Editor-in-Chief, Botanical Index to the Journal of Henry David Thoreau, by Ray Angelo, Peregrine Smith Books (Salt Lake City: 1984). 204 pp. A revised web version of the Index can be found at: http://neatlas.huh.harvard.edu/ThoreauBotIdx/
Executive Editor, The Thoreau Quarterly: A Journal of Literary and Philosophical Studies, Vol. 4-7, 1982-85.
