I am Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University. I have a PhD from Syracuse University and a BA from Seattle Pacific University. My primary research interests are in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, epistemology, and moral psychology. I am the editor or co-editor of The Evidential Argument from Evil (Indiana 1996), Faith, Freedom, and Rationality (Rowman & Littlefield 1996), Divine Hiddenness: New Essays (Cambridge 2002), The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil (Wiley-Blackwell 2013), J.L. Schellenberg's Philosophy of Religion (2013), a special issue of Religious Studies, Approaches to Faith (2017), a speci…
I am Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University. I have a PhD from Syracuse University and a BA from Seattle Pacific University. My primary research interests are in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, epistemology, and moral psychology. I am the editor or co-editor of The Evidential Argument from Evil (Indiana 1996), Faith, Freedom, and Rationality (Rowman & Littlefield 1996), Divine Hiddenness: New Essays (Cambridge 2002), The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil (Wiley-Blackwell 2013), J.L. Schellenberg's Philosophy of Religion (2013), a special issue of Religious Studies, Approaches to Faith (2017), a special double issue of International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and Normative Appraisals of Faith (2023), a special issue of Religious Studies. I have published articles, chapters, entries, and critical reviews in a variety of venues; see CV for details. My main current project is a book (or two or three) on the nature, value, rationality, and virtue of faith and faithfulness, thought of as a psychological attitude, state, or trait, one that can have secular or religious objects or contents, with Daniel J McKaughan, at Boston College.
