Curriculum Vitae
John M. DePoe
Shortened online CV, last updated 12/18/2023
Shortened online CV, last updated 12/18/2023
Academic Appointments
Headmaster, October 2022—Present
Interim Headmaster, Kingdom Preparatory Academy, January 2022—October 2022
Head of the Schools of Logic and Rhetoric, Kingdom Preparatory Academy, Summer 2020—Summer 2022
Academic Dean of the Schools of Logic and Rhetoric, Kingdom Preparatory Academy, Fall 2017—Summer 2022
Associate Professor, Marywood University, Fall 2016—Spring 2017
Assistant Professor, Marywood University, Fall 2011—Spring 2016
Full-Time Instructor, Black Hawk College, Fall 2010—Spring 2011
Headmaster, October 2022—Present
Interim Headmaster, Kingdom Preparatory Academy, January 2022—October 2022
Head of the Schools of Logic and Rhetoric, Kingdom Preparatory Academy, Summer 2020—Summer 2022
Academic Dean of the Schools of Logic and Rhetoric, Kingdom Preparatory Academy, Fall 2017—Summer 2022
Associate Professor, Marywood University, Fall 2016—Spring 2017
Assistant Professor, Marywood University, Fall 2011—Spring 2016
Full-Time Instructor, Black Hawk College, Fall 2010—Spring 2011
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology, Metaphysics (including Philosophy of Mind), Philosophy of Religion
Epistemology, Metaphysics (including Philosophy of Mind), Philosophy of Religion
Areas of Competence
Modern Philosophy, Logic
Modern Philosophy, Logic
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Iowa
M.A. Philosophy, Western Michigan University
M.A. Religion, Hardin-Simmons University
B.A. Philosophy and Theology, Hardin-Simmons University
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Iowa
M.A. Philosophy, Western Michigan University
M.A. Religion, Hardin-Simmons University
B.A. Philosophy and Theology, Hardin-Simmons University
Publications
Book
Debating Christian Religious Epistemology: An Introduction to Five Views on the Knowledge of God (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
Peer Reviewed Articles
18. “Is It Wrong for God to Create Persons? A Reply to Monaghan,” The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 93 (2023): 227-237.
17. “Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Moral Skepticism: Divine Moral Knowledge as Transcendent and Continuous with Human Moral Knowledge," Philosophia Christi 24, no. 2 (2022): 257-269.
16. “Justification by Acquaintance,” Synthese 199 (2021): 7555-7573.
15. “Indirect Realism with a Human Face,” Ratio 31, no. 1 (2018): 57-72.
14. “Hold on Loosely, But Don’t Let Go: Evaluating the Evidential Impact of Religious Disagreement,” Philosophia Christi 20, no. 1 (2018): 253-264. For a special issue on the epistemology of religious disagreement.
13. “Positive Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Divine Deception,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 82 (2017): 89-99.
12. “Berkeleyan Idealism, Christianity, and The Problem of Evil,” Philosophia Christi 19, no. 2 (2017): 401-413.
11. “What’s (Not) Wrong with Evidentialism,” The Global Journal for Classical Theology 13, no. 2 (2016).
10. “The Self-Defeat of Naturalism: A Critical Comparison of Alvin Plantinga and C. S. Lewis,” Christian Scholars Review 44, no. 1 (2014): 9-26.
9. “The Heavens are Declaring the Glory of God: Contemporary Teleological Arguments,” Review and Expositor 111, no. 3 (2014): 244-258.
8. “Natural Theology and the Uses of Argument” co-authored with Timothy McGrew, Philosophia Christi 15, no. 2 (2013): 299-310. For a special issue on ramified natural theology.
7. “RoboMary, Blue Banana Tricks, and the Metaphysics of Consciousness: A Critique of Daniel Dennett’s Apology for Physicalism,” Philosophia Christi 15, no.1 (2013): 119-132. For a special issue on neuroscience and the soul.
6. “Bergmann’s Dilemma and Internalism’s Escape,” Acta Analytica 27, no. 4 (2012): 409-423.
5. “Defeating the Self-Defeat Argument for Phenomenal Conservatism,” Philosophical Studies 152, no. 3 (2011): 347-359.
4. “Williamson on the Evidence for Skepticism,” Southwest Philosophical Studies, 30 (2008): 23-32.
3.“Vindicating a Bayesian Approach to Confirming Miracles: A Response to Jordan Howard Sobel’s Reading of Hume,” Philosophia Christi 10, no. 1 (2008): 229-38.
2. “In Defense of Classical Foundationalism: A Critical Evaluation of Plantinga's Argument that Classical Foundationalism is Self-Refuting,” The South African Journal of Philosophy 26, no. 3 (2007): 245-51.
1. “Theism, Atheism, and the Metaphysics of Free Will,” Southwest Philosophical Studies 27 (2005): 36-44.
Book Chapters and Other Writings
7. “Skeptical Theism,” in The Blackwell Companion to Christian Apologetics, ed. Timothy J. McGrew and Robert Stewart (Blackwell-Wiley, forthcoming).
6. “The Place of Autonomous Human Reason and Logic in Theology,” in Without Excuse: Scripture, Reason, and Presuppositional Apologetics, ed. David Haines (Davenant Press, 2020), pp. 52-63.
5. “On the Epistemological Framework for Skeptical Theism” in Skeptical Theism: New Essays, eds. T. Dougherty and J. McBrayer (Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 32-44.
4. “Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, published 6 January 2013. http://www.iep.utm.edu/knowacq/
3. “Gettier’s Argument against the Traditional Account of Knowledge,” in Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, eds. S. Barbone and M. Bruce (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), pp. 156-158.
2. “Berkeley’s Master Argument for Idealism,” in Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, eds. S. Barbone and M. Bruce (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), pp. 68-69.
1. “The Significance of Religious Disagreement,” in Taking Christian Moral Thought Seriously: The Legitimacy of Christian Thought in the Marketplace of Ideas, edited by Jeremy Evans (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Academic, 2011), pp. 44-76.
Book Reviews
9. Review of Lydia McGrew's The Mirror or the Mask: Liberating the Gospels from Literary Devices (DeWard 2019) in Philosophia Christi 22, no. 1 (2020): 182-187.
8. Review of Lydia McGrew’s Hidden in Plain View: Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts (DeWard 2017) in Africanus Journal 11, no. 1 (2019): 46-50.
7. Review of Michael Augros’s Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God’s Existence (Ignatius 2015) in Southeastern Theological Review 7, no. 1 (2016): 128-129.
6. Review of Joseph Kim’s Reformed Epistemology and the Problem of Religious Diversity (James Clarke & Co., 2012) in The Journal for the Evangelical Theological Society 57, no. 4 (2014): 860-865.
5. Review of Michael Licona’s The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (InterVarsity 2010) in The Christian Research Journal 34, no. 5 (2011): 57-58.
4. Review of Robert J. Spitzer’s New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions to Contemporary Physics and Philosophy in Southeastern Theological Review 2, no. 2 (2011): 205-206.
3. Double book review (with James McGlothlin) of Angus Menuge’s Agents Under Fire (Rowman and Littlefield 2004) and Victor Reppert’s C. S. Lewis’ Dangerous Idea (InterVarsity 2003) in Faith and Philosophy 26, no. 3 (2009): 339-346.
2. Double book review of Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell (Viking 2006) and Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin 2006) in Review & Expositor 104, no. 4 (2007): 819-21.
1. Review of Allan Gibbard’s Thinking How to Live (Harvard University Press 2003) in Philosophia Christi 7, no. 1 (2005): 219-221.
Grant: Religious Experience Cluster Group (Fall 2015)
$16,000 award funded by The Experience Project, a three-year initiative at the University of Notre Dame and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The project explores the nature and implications of transformative experiences, the character of religious and spiritual experiences, and how work on transformative experiences may illumine our understanding of religious and spiritual experiences.
The cluster group initiative funds interdisciplinary discussion focused on various aspects of religious experiences, several small interdisciplinary workshops, and original research by project personnel.
Presentations
29. "Rationality Requires Libertarian Freedom" – Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 14-17, 2023, accepted by peer-review.
28. “Theistic Ethics: Is It Wrong for God to Create Persons?” – Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 15-17, 2022, accepted by peer-review.
27. “Public Philosophy: For the Good of the Church” – Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 16-18, 2021, by invitation.
26. “Firming Up the Foundations of Religious Epistemology” – (Workshop) Beyond Foundationalism: New Horizons in Muslim Analytic Philosophy, Cambridge Muslim College, October 30, 2021, invited to submit and accepted after peer-review.
25. “Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Moral Skepticism: A Solution” – Southwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society & Evangelical Theological Society, April 23-24, 2021, accepted by peer-review.
24. “Evidentialism and Divine Hiddenness” – Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 15-17, 2017, accepted by peer-review.
23. “Positive Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Divine Deception” – Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 15-17, 2016, accepted by peer-review.
22. “Could my Smartphone be an Extension of my Mind? (No!)” – Marywood University, April 19, 2016, by invitation.
21. “What’s (Not) Wrong with Evidentialism” – Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 17-19, 2015, accepted by peer-review.
20. Workshop leader on probabilistic reasoning and the Resurrection (including my presentation, “Does Skeptical Theism Make the Resurrection Improbable?”) – Oxford University’s Ian Ramsey Centre conference on Special Divine Action, July 17, 2014, by invitation.
19. “Let’s be Friends: God, Foreknowledge, and Freedom” – Marywood University, October 24, 2013, by invitation.
18. “Plantinga vs. Lewis on Naturalism” – Friday Symposium Lecture at Dallas Baptist University, September 28, 2012, by invitation.
17. “Indirect Realism with a Human Face” – Religion, Critical Realism, and Education: Interdisciplinary dialogue about reality, knowledge, and the pursuit of truth at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England, September 7-8, 2012, accepted by peer-review.
16. “Are Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom Compatible? A Molinist Answer” – Marywood University, February 24, 2011, by invitation.
15. “Hume and Reid on the Cognitive Status of Moral Claims” – the New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Society, March 26-28, 2010, accepted by peer-review.
14. “Bergmann’s Dilemma and Internalism’s Escape” – University of North Florida, January 25, 2010, by invitation.
13. “Against Particularism” (with Ian MacMillan) – the Iowa Philosophical Society, November 14, 2009, accepted by peer-review.
12. “Hume’s Sensible Knave Problem” – the New Mexico/ West Texas Philosophical Society, March 27-29, 2009, accepted by peer-review.
11. “How to Confirm a Miracle: A Bayesian Approach” – the American Philosophical Association Central Division meeting 2007, accepted by peer-review.
10. “Williamson on the Evidence for Skepticism” – the New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Society, March 30-31, 2007, accepted by peer-review.
9. “In Defense of Classical Foundationalism: A Critical Evaluation of Plantinga's Argument that Classical Foundationalism is Self-Refuting” – the Midwest Regional Evangelical Philosophical Society, March 16-17, 2007, accepted by peer-review.
8. “Conceivability Arguments Against Materialism” – the Iowa Philosophical Society, September 23, 2006, accepted by peer-review.
7. “Evidentialism, Reformed Epistemology, and the Holy Spirit” – the Midwest Regional Society of Christian Philosophers meeting, April 20-22, 2006; and the Midwest Regional Evangelical Philosophical Society, March 24-25, 2006, accepted by peer-review.
6. “An Argument against the Mind Being a Physical Mechanism” – Western Michigan University’s philosophy department’s colloquium, October 21, 2005.
5. “A Bayesian Analysis of the Cumulative Effects of the Independent Eyewitness Testimony for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ” – the Midwest Regional Society of Christian Philosophers meeting, April 7-9, 2005, accepted by peer-review.
4. “Why Christians Should not be Compatibilists: A Response to Baker” – the annual meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, November 17-19, 2004, accepted by peer-review.
3. “Theism, Atheism, and the Metaphysics of Free Will” – the New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Society, March 26-28, 2004, accepted by peer-review.
2. “How the Tensed and Tenseless Theories of Time Matter for Christology” – the annual meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, November 21, 2003, accepted by peer-review.
1. “Anselm: Life and Contributions” – the New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Society, April 5-7, 2002, accepted by peer-review.
Teaching Experience
Texas Tech University (Adjunct)
Phil 3303 History of Modern Philosophy (Spring 2024)
Phil 3324 Philosophy of Religion (Fall 2023)
Phil 2310 Logic (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023)
Phil 4340 Metaphysics (Spring 2022)
Kingdom Preparatory Academy
Greek
Rhetoric (including Senior Thesis)
Introduction to Philosophy (dual credit)
Informal Logic & Logic II
Ancient History
Medieval History
Medieval Literature (1 term)
Marywood University
Introduction to Philosophy (over 20 sections)
Social Ethics (Spring 2017)
Symbolic Logic (Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2013; independent study Spring 2013)
Metaphysics (Fall 2016, Spring 2013)
The Nature of Religious Experience (Summer 2016)
Theory of Knowledge (Spring 2016, Spring 2012)
Philosophy of Religion (Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011)
Philosophy of Mind (Spring 2015)
Critical Thinking (Fall 2014; independent study Summer 2016)
Modern Philosophy (Spring 2014; independent study Spring 2012 & Summer 2016)
Advanced Logic (independent study Spring 2013 & Spring 2016)
Christian Apologetics (independent study Fall 2014)
Black Hawk College
Introduction to Ethics (8 sections)
Introduction to Philosophy (3 sections)
University of Iowa
Introduction to Philosophy (4 sections)
Principles of Reasoning (3 sections)
Western Michigan University
Introduction to Philosophy (5 sections)
Critical Thinking (3 sections)
Book
Debating Christian Religious Epistemology: An Introduction to Five Views on the Knowledge of God (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
- Co-edited with Tyler Dalton McNabb who collaborated with me in writing an introduction to the text
- My individual contributions to this text involve writing for the position of "classical evidentialism"
Peer Reviewed Articles
18. “Is It Wrong for God to Create Persons? A Reply to Monaghan,” The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 93 (2023): 227-237.
17. “Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Moral Skepticism: Divine Moral Knowledge as Transcendent and Continuous with Human Moral Knowledge," Philosophia Christi 24, no. 2 (2022): 257-269.
16. “Justification by Acquaintance,” Synthese 199 (2021): 7555-7573.
15. “Indirect Realism with a Human Face,” Ratio 31, no. 1 (2018): 57-72.
14. “Hold on Loosely, But Don’t Let Go: Evaluating the Evidential Impact of Religious Disagreement,” Philosophia Christi 20, no. 1 (2018): 253-264. For a special issue on the epistemology of religious disagreement.
13. “Positive Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Divine Deception,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 82 (2017): 89-99.
12. “Berkeleyan Idealism, Christianity, and The Problem of Evil,” Philosophia Christi 19, no. 2 (2017): 401-413.
11. “What’s (Not) Wrong with Evidentialism,” The Global Journal for Classical Theology 13, no. 2 (2016).
10. “The Self-Defeat of Naturalism: A Critical Comparison of Alvin Plantinga and C. S. Lewis,” Christian Scholars Review 44, no. 1 (2014): 9-26.
9. “The Heavens are Declaring the Glory of God: Contemporary Teleological Arguments,” Review and Expositor 111, no. 3 (2014): 244-258.
8. “Natural Theology and the Uses of Argument” co-authored with Timothy McGrew, Philosophia Christi 15, no. 2 (2013): 299-310. For a special issue on ramified natural theology.
7. “RoboMary, Blue Banana Tricks, and the Metaphysics of Consciousness: A Critique of Daniel Dennett’s Apology for Physicalism,” Philosophia Christi 15, no.1 (2013): 119-132. For a special issue on neuroscience and the soul.
6. “Bergmann’s Dilemma and Internalism’s Escape,” Acta Analytica 27, no. 4 (2012): 409-423.
5. “Defeating the Self-Defeat Argument for Phenomenal Conservatism,” Philosophical Studies 152, no. 3 (2011): 347-359.
4. “Williamson on the Evidence for Skepticism,” Southwest Philosophical Studies, 30 (2008): 23-32.
3.“Vindicating a Bayesian Approach to Confirming Miracles: A Response to Jordan Howard Sobel’s Reading of Hume,” Philosophia Christi 10, no. 1 (2008): 229-38.
2. “In Defense of Classical Foundationalism: A Critical Evaluation of Plantinga's Argument that Classical Foundationalism is Self-Refuting,” The South African Journal of Philosophy 26, no. 3 (2007): 245-51.
1. “Theism, Atheism, and the Metaphysics of Free Will,” Southwest Philosophical Studies 27 (2005): 36-44.
Book Chapters and Other Writings
7. “Skeptical Theism,” in The Blackwell Companion to Christian Apologetics, ed. Timothy J. McGrew and Robert Stewart (Blackwell-Wiley, forthcoming).
6. “The Place of Autonomous Human Reason and Logic in Theology,” in Without Excuse: Scripture, Reason, and Presuppositional Apologetics, ed. David Haines (Davenant Press, 2020), pp. 52-63.
5. “On the Epistemological Framework for Skeptical Theism” in Skeptical Theism: New Essays, eds. T. Dougherty and J. McBrayer (Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 32-44.
4. “Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, published 6 January 2013. http://www.iep.utm.edu/knowacq/
3. “Gettier’s Argument against the Traditional Account of Knowledge,” in Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, eds. S. Barbone and M. Bruce (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), pp. 156-158.
2. “Berkeley’s Master Argument for Idealism,” in Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, eds. S. Barbone and M. Bruce (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), pp. 68-69.
1. “The Significance of Religious Disagreement,” in Taking Christian Moral Thought Seriously: The Legitimacy of Christian Thought in the Marketplace of Ideas, edited by Jeremy Evans (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Academic, 2011), pp. 44-76.
Book Reviews
9. Review of Lydia McGrew's The Mirror or the Mask: Liberating the Gospels from Literary Devices (DeWard 2019) in Philosophia Christi 22, no. 1 (2020): 182-187.
8. Review of Lydia McGrew’s Hidden in Plain View: Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts (DeWard 2017) in Africanus Journal 11, no. 1 (2019): 46-50.
7. Review of Michael Augros’s Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God’s Existence (Ignatius 2015) in Southeastern Theological Review 7, no. 1 (2016): 128-129.
6. Review of Joseph Kim’s Reformed Epistemology and the Problem of Religious Diversity (James Clarke & Co., 2012) in The Journal for the Evangelical Theological Society 57, no. 4 (2014): 860-865.
5. Review of Michael Licona’s The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (InterVarsity 2010) in The Christian Research Journal 34, no. 5 (2011): 57-58.
4. Review of Robert J. Spitzer’s New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions to Contemporary Physics and Philosophy in Southeastern Theological Review 2, no. 2 (2011): 205-206.
3. Double book review (with James McGlothlin) of Angus Menuge’s Agents Under Fire (Rowman and Littlefield 2004) and Victor Reppert’s C. S. Lewis’ Dangerous Idea (InterVarsity 2003) in Faith and Philosophy 26, no. 3 (2009): 339-346.
2. Double book review of Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell (Viking 2006) and Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin 2006) in Review & Expositor 104, no. 4 (2007): 819-21.
1. Review of Allan Gibbard’s Thinking How to Live (Harvard University Press 2003) in Philosophia Christi 7, no. 1 (2005): 219-221.
Grant: Religious Experience Cluster Group (Fall 2015)
$16,000 award funded by The Experience Project, a three-year initiative at the University of Notre Dame and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The project explores the nature and implications of transformative experiences, the character of religious and spiritual experiences, and how work on transformative experiences may illumine our understanding of religious and spiritual experiences.
The cluster group initiative funds interdisciplinary discussion focused on various aspects of religious experiences, several small interdisciplinary workshops, and original research by project personnel.
Presentations
29. "Rationality Requires Libertarian Freedom" – Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 14-17, 2023, accepted by peer-review.
28. “Theistic Ethics: Is It Wrong for God to Create Persons?” – Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 15-17, 2022, accepted by peer-review.
27. “Public Philosophy: For the Good of the Church” – Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 16-18, 2021, by invitation.
26. “Firming Up the Foundations of Religious Epistemology” – (Workshop) Beyond Foundationalism: New Horizons in Muslim Analytic Philosophy, Cambridge Muslim College, October 30, 2021, invited to submit and accepted after peer-review.
25. “Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Moral Skepticism: A Solution” – Southwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society & Evangelical Theological Society, April 23-24, 2021, accepted by peer-review.
24. “Evidentialism and Divine Hiddenness” – Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 15-17, 2017, accepted by peer-review.
23. “Positive Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Divine Deception” – Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 15-17, 2016, accepted by peer-review.
22. “Could my Smartphone be an Extension of my Mind? (No!)” – Marywood University, April 19, 2016, by invitation.
21. “What’s (Not) Wrong with Evidentialism” – Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, November 17-19, 2015, accepted by peer-review.
20. Workshop leader on probabilistic reasoning and the Resurrection (including my presentation, “Does Skeptical Theism Make the Resurrection Improbable?”) – Oxford University’s Ian Ramsey Centre conference on Special Divine Action, July 17, 2014, by invitation.
19. “Let’s be Friends: God, Foreknowledge, and Freedom” – Marywood University, October 24, 2013, by invitation.
18. “Plantinga vs. Lewis on Naturalism” – Friday Symposium Lecture at Dallas Baptist University, September 28, 2012, by invitation.
17. “Indirect Realism with a Human Face” – Religion, Critical Realism, and Education: Interdisciplinary dialogue about reality, knowledge, and the pursuit of truth at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England, September 7-8, 2012, accepted by peer-review.
16. “Are Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom Compatible? A Molinist Answer” – Marywood University, February 24, 2011, by invitation.
15. “Hume and Reid on the Cognitive Status of Moral Claims” – the New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Society, March 26-28, 2010, accepted by peer-review.
14. “Bergmann’s Dilemma and Internalism’s Escape” – University of North Florida, January 25, 2010, by invitation.
13. “Against Particularism” (with Ian MacMillan) – the Iowa Philosophical Society, November 14, 2009, accepted by peer-review.
12. “Hume’s Sensible Knave Problem” – the New Mexico/ West Texas Philosophical Society, March 27-29, 2009, accepted by peer-review.
11. “How to Confirm a Miracle: A Bayesian Approach” – the American Philosophical Association Central Division meeting 2007, accepted by peer-review.
10. “Williamson on the Evidence for Skepticism” – the New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Society, March 30-31, 2007, accepted by peer-review.
9. “In Defense of Classical Foundationalism: A Critical Evaluation of Plantinga's Argument that Classical Foundationalism is Self-Refuting” – the Midwest Regional Evangelical Philosophical Society, March 16-17, 2007, accepted by peer-review.
8. “Conceivability Arguments Against Materialism” – the Iowa Philosophical Society, September 23, 2006, accepted by peer-review.
7. “Evidentialism, Reformed Epistemology, and the Holy Spirit” – the Midwest Regional Society of Christian Philosophers meeting, April 20-22, 2006; and the Midwest Regional Evangelical Philosophical Society, March 24-25, 2006, accepted by peer-review.
6. “An Argument against the Mind Being a Physical Mechanism” – Western Michigan University’s philosophy department’s colloquium, October 21, 2005.
5. “A Bayesian Analysis of the Cumulative Effects of the Independent Eyewitness Testimony for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ” – the Midwest Regional Society of Christian Philosophers meeting, April 7-9, 2005, accepted by peer-review.
4. “Why Christians Should not be Compatibilists: A Response to Baker” – the annual meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, November 17-19, 2004, accepted by peer-review.
3. “Theism, Atheism, and the Metaphysics of Free Will” – the New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Society, March 26-28, 2004, accepted by peer-review.
2. “How the Tensed and Tenseless Theories of Time Matter for Christology” – the annual meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, November 21, 2003, accepted by peer-review.
1. “Anselm: Life and Contributions” – the New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Society, April 5-7, 2002, accepted by peer-review.
Teaching Experience
Texas Tech University (Adjunct)
Phil 3303 History of Modern Philosophy (Spring 2024)
Phil 3324 Philosophy of Religion (Fall 2023)
Phil 2310 Logic (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023)
Phil 4340 Metaphysics (Spring 2022)
Kingdom Preparatory Academy
Greek
Rhetoric (including Senior Thesis)
Introduction to Philosophy (dual credit)
Informal Logic & Logic II
Ancient History
Medieval History
Medieval Literature (1 term)
Marywood University
Introduction to Philosophy (over 20 sections)
Social Ethics (Spring 2017)
Symbolic Logic (Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2013; independent study Spring 2013)
Metaphysics (Fall 2016, Spring 2013)
The Nature of Religious Experience (Summer 2016)
Theory of Knowledge (Spring 2016, Spring 2012)
Philosophy of Religion (Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011)
Philosophy of Mind (Spring 2015)
Critical Thinking (Fall 2014; independent study Summer 2016)
Modern Philosophy (Spring 2014; independent study Spring 2012 & Summer 2016)
Advanced Logic (independent study Spring 2013 & Spring 2016)
Christian Apologetics (independent study Fall 2014)
Black Hawk College
Introduction to Ethics (8 sections)
Introduction to Philosophy (3 sections)
University of Iowa
Introduction to Philosophy (4 sections)
Principles of Reasoning (3 sections)
Western Michigan University
Introduction to Philosophy (5 sections)
Critical Thinking (3 sections)
