This page lists recognized philosophers of religion, some active, some retired, some deceased. Basic institutional and biographical information is included. Follow the link for more information about each person. If you see someone missing, add their information on the “Add Person” page and your submission will be reviewed for inclusion on this list. You can search the list and sort on several key fields.
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Dewan | Lawrence | Professor of Theology | Dominican University College | Canada | More info | nature of being; nature of knowledge; foundation of morals; Thomistic metaphysics |
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Dew | James | Dean and Associate Professor of History of Ideas and Philosophy | Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary | USA | More Info | philosophy of religion; history of philosophy; theological studies; epistemology; apologetics |
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Deuser | Hermann | Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Systematic Theology | Goethe University | Germany | philosophy and theology of Søren Kierkegaard; philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce; topics in semiotics and cosmology | |
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Despland | Michel | Professor Emeritus of Religion | Concordia University | Canada | More info | history of Christianity; philosophy of religion; history of religion; history of religion in France in the 19th century |
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Brady | Michael | Senior Lecturer in Philosophy | University of Glasgow | Scotland | More info | philosophy of religion; the epistemic value of emotion; the nature of emotional valence; the relationship between curiosity and epistemic value; the concepts of hope and disappointment |
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Davidson | Matthew | Associate Professor of Philosophy | California State University, San Bernadino | USA | More Info | metaphysics; epistemology; philosophy of language; philosophy of religion; history of modern philosophy |
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Davis | Stephen | Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy | Claremont McKenna College | USA | More Info | Christianity; current Christian thought; ancient philosophy; metaphysics; philosophy and literature; philosophy of religion |
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Crosby | Donald | Professor Emeritus of Philosophy | Colorado State University | USA | More info | 2, american pragmatism; philosophy of nature; existentialism; philosophy of religion |
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Craig | William | Research Professor of Philosophy | Talbot School of Theology, Biola University | USA | More Info | natural theology; philosophy of time; science and religion; coherence of God concepts; historical Jesus and resurrection studies |
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Cottingham | John | Professor Emeritus of Philosophy | University of Reading | UK | More info | early-modern philosophy (especially Descartes); moral philosophy; philosophy of religion |
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Coghlan | Peter | Senior Lecturer in Philosophy | Australian Catholic University | Australia | More Info | ethics; philosophy of religion; social and political philosophy; aesthetics and philosophy of art |
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Coakley | Sarah | Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity; Chair in Philosophy of Religion | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | More info | analytic and continental philosophy of religion; religious epistemology; rationality, the passions, religious truth claims; gender theory in philosophy of religion; evolutionary theory and philosophical theology |
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Clark | Stephen | Professor Emeritus of Philosophy | University of Liverpool | UK | More info | plotinus; animals; science fiction; philosophy of religion |
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Cheetham | David | Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religion; Head of Department of Theology and Religion | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | More info | philosophy of religion; contemporary theology; religion and the arts |
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Campbell | Richard | Professor Emeritus of Philosophy | Australian National University | Australia | More Info | metaphysics; history of philosophy; philosophy of religion; hermeneutics and critical theory; philosophical psychology |
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Brown | hunter | Professor of Philosophy | King's College | Canada | More info | philosophy of religion; epistemology; classical pragmatism; the philosophy of William James |
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Bradley | Raymond | Emeritus Professor of Philosophy | Simon Fraser University | Canada | More Info | philosophy of religion; epistemology; philosophy of science; semantics; elementary logic; philosophy of logic; |
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Blanchette | Oliva | Professor of Philosophy | Boston College | United States | More info | metaphysics; ethics; philosophy of religion; Hegel; Blondel |
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Bishop | John | Professor of Philosophy | University of Auckland | New Zealand | More info | philosophy of religion; philosophy of action |
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Bilimoria | Purushottama | Honorary Associate Professor of Philosophy | Deakin University | Australia | More Info | analytic and continental philosophy; Indian philosophy; diaspora studies (Hindus and Sikhs in Australia); philosophy of religion; aesthetics; postcolonial critiques |
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Berthrong | John | Associate Professor of Comparative Theology | Boston University | USA | More Info | interfaith dialogue; multiple religious participation; Chinese and East religion and philosophy; comparative theology and philosophy |
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Bergmann | Michael | Professor of Philosophy | Purdue University | USA | More Info | epistemology; metaphysics; philosophy of religion |
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Benson | Bruce | Professor of Philosophy | Wheaton College | USA | More info | philosophy of religion; "theological turn" in phenomenology; hermeneutics and interpretation theory; aesthetics; philosophy of music |
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Batniztky | Leora | Professor of Religion and Departmental Chair | Princton University | USA | More Info | philosophy of religion; modern Jewish thought; hermeneutics; contemporary legal and political theory |
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Balestra | Dominic | Professor of Philosophy | Fordham University | USA | More Info | philosophy of science; the 17th century scientific revolution; philosophy of religion; religion and science (particularly in their historical relationship and in respect to questions about rationality) |
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Baker | Sharon | Associate Professor of Theology and Religion | Messiah College | USA | More Info | continental philosophy of religion; philosophical theology; world religions; inter-faith dialogue |
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Baggett | David | Professor of Philosophy | LIberty University | USA | More info | philosophy and popular culture; philosophical theology; ethics; philosophy of religion; philosophy of sport |
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Austin | Michael | Professor of Philosophy | Eastern Kentucky University | USA | More info | ethics; philosophy of religion; philosophy of sport; existentialism; epistemology |
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Audi | Robert | John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy | University of Notre Dame | USA | More info | ethics; political philosophy; epistemology; religious epistemology; philosophy of mind and action |
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Anderson | Pamela | Reader and Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy of Religion | University of Oxford | UK | More Info | European philosophy; gender issues in philosophy |
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Andersen | Svend | Professor of Systematic Theology | Aarhus University | Denmark | More info | science and religion; philosophy of religion; religious language; bioethics; phenomenology; classical metaphysics and ontology; analytical linguistic philosophy |
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Amesbury | Richard | Associate Professor of Ethics and Religion | Claremont School of Theology | USA | More Info | theological ethics; religious ethics; ethics; religion and the public sphere; political theology; philosophy of religion; sociology of religion; religion and political theory; Wittgenstein; religious pluralism; secularism |
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Allen | Douglas | Professor of Philosophy | University of Maine | US | Professor Doug Allen's Website | 7, 11, 12, Phenomenology, History of Religions, Mircea Eliade, Mahatma Gandhi, Comparative Philosophy and Religion |
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Ahlers | Rolf | Reynolds Professor of Philosophy and Religion | Russell Sage College | USA | More Info | philosophy of religion; German idealism; Schelling; discourse analysis and deconstruction/poststructuralism; queer theory; German literature |
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Roberts | Robert | Distinguished Professor of Ethics | Baylor University | USA | More info | epistemology, 1, emotion theory, Kierkegaard |
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Schellenberg | John | Professor of Philosophy | Mount Saint Vincent University / Dalhousie University | Canada | More Info | philosophy of religion (including science and religion); epistemology; ethics |
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Trakakis | Nick | Research Fellow in Philosophy; Assistant Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Phenomenology of Religion | Australian Catholic University | Australia | More Info | analytic philosophy; continental philosophy; philosophy of religion; phenomenology; theology |
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Roberts | Tyler | Professor of Religious Studies and Departmental Chair | Grinnell College | USA | More Info | history and thought of Christianity; philosophy of religion; changing shape of religion in modern Western culture |
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Raschke | Carl | Professor of Religious Studies | University of Denver | USA | More Info | continental philosophy; philosophy of religion; theory of religion |
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Joy | Morny | Professor of Religious Studies | University of Calgary | Canada | More Info | philosophy of religion; comparative philosophy; women and religion; hermeneutics; postcolonial theory; phenomenology |
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Crockett | Clayton | Associate Professor and Program Director of Religious Studies | University of Central Arkansas | USA | More Info | continental philosophy of religion and postmodern theology; Gilles Deluze; psychoanalytic theory; religion and politics |
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Caputo | John | Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities | Syracuse University | USA | More Info | continental philosophy of religion; religion and theology in light of contemporary phenomenology, hermeneutics, and deconstruction; radical religious and theological motifs in continental philosophy; religion without religion |
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Kanaris | Jim | Professor of Religious Studies | McGill University | Canada | More Info | philosophy of religion; methodology; relationship of philosophy and theology; Continental thought; Bernard Lonergan; religious epistemology; methods in theology and religious studies; philosophical and theological hermeneutics |
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Murphy | Nancey | Professor of Christian Philosophy | Fuller Theological Seminary | USA | More Info | |
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Tilley | Terrence | Department Chair and Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Professor of Theology | Fordham University | USA | More Info | philosophical theology; philosophy of religion; systematic theology |
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Dalferth | Ingolf | Danforth Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute of Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion | Claremont Graduate University / University of Zurich | USA | More Info | philosophical and theological hermeneutics in 20th century; systematic theology in the 19th and 20th century; ecumenical theology (Lutheranism and Anglicanism); contemporary analytic and phenomenological philosophy of religion |
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Corrington | Robert | Professor of Philosophical Theology | Drew University | USA | More Info | continental phenomenology; American pragmatism; philosophical cosmology; evolutionary psychology; psychoanalysis |
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Desmond | William | Full Professor of Philosophy | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Netherlands | More Info | philosophy of religion; ethics; German idealism and Hegel; metaphysics; aesthetics; ontology |
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Speight | C. Allen | Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director, Institute for Philosophy and Religion | Boston University | USA | homepage | 1, German Idealism |
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Neville | Robert | Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology | Boston University | USA | More Info | metaphysics; philosophy of religion; philosophical theology; ethics; political theory; American philosophy; modern philosophy; comparative philosophy |
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Zank | Michael | Professor of Religion | Boston University | USA | More Info | 8 |
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Wildman | Wesley | Professor of Philosopohy, Theology, and Ethics | Boston University | USA | More Info | philosophy of religion; philosophical theology; modern Christian thought; comparative theology; religion and science; religious naturalism |