Curriculum Vitae
Department of Philosophy
Baylor University
Waco, TX 76798
EMPLOYMENT
Baylor University, Associate Professor (2020-present)
Baylor University, Assistant Professor (2014-2020)
University of Oxford, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2012-2014)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Philosophy, Saint Louis University, 2007- 2012.
Visiting student, Notre Dame, Fall 2009.
M.A., Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, Biola University, 2004-2006.
B.A., Humanities (emphasis Philosophy) Biola University, 2000-2004.
Visiting student, University of Oxford, spring 2003.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion
MONOGRAPHS
Divine Hiddenness and Evidence for God. 2025. Oxford University Press.
PUBLICATIONS (* indicates peer-reviewed)
*Fallibilism and the Flexibility of Epistemic Modals. (2014) Philosophical Studies. 167 (3): 597-606.
*Epistemic Authority and Conscientious Belief. (2014) Critical Essay on Linda Zagzebski’s Epistemic Authority. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. Vol 6: No 4: 91-99.
*On the Intimate Relationship of Knowledge and Action. (2015) Episteme. 12(3): 343-353.
*Divine Hiddenness: Defeated Evidence. (2017) Philosophy. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, 81: 119-132.
*Putting Fallibilism to Work. (2018) Normativity: Ethical and Practical. Edited by D. Whiting. Oxford University Press. Pp. 12-25.
*Hume and Defeated Miracle Reports. (2018) Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights. Oxford University Press. pp. 13-28.
*On Providing Evidence. (2018) Episteme 15(3): 245-260.
The Gettier Problem and Fallibilism. (2018) The Gettier Problem. ed S. Hetherington. Cambridge University Press. pp. 11-26.
*Knowledge, Practical Adequacy, and Stakes. (2019) co-authored with John Hawthorne. Oxford Studies in Epistemology. pp. 234-257.
Pragmatic Encroachment and Closure. (2019) co-authored with John Hawthorne. in Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology. ed by Brian Kim and Matthew McGrath. OUP.
The Case for Miracles. (2019) co-authored with Alexander Pruss. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion. 2nd edition.
*Divine Hiddenness: An Evidential Argument. (2021) Philosophical Perspectives, 35(1): 5-22. *Honorable mention, Inaugural Alvin Plantinga Prize, 2022.
Problems of Hiddenness. (2022) Handbook of Philosophy of Religion. Rowman & Littlefield. pp.241-252.
On What We Owe in Attention. (2022) Journal of Philosophical Research, 47: 219-228.
Failing to Flourish. (2022) Sapientia: Journal of Philosophy. Fallenness and Flourishing Book Symposium.
Rationality and Miracles. (2023) in The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology. edited by Fuqua, Greco, and McNabb. Cambridge University Press.
*Cartesian Infallibilism and a Guarantee of Truth (2023) The Monist. 106,4: 409-422.
*‘Fallibilism and Evidence’. (2024) Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence. Ed by Lasonen-Aarnio and Littlejohn.
A Lesson from Divine Hiddenness, or, Pave Your Own Way. (2024) Advice to Christian Philosophers. pp. 25-30.
On Progress in Philosophy. (2025) William Lycan on Mind, Meaning, and Method.
*Divine Hiddenness and Other Evidence. (2025) Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion. (co-authored with Jeffrey Russell)
*winner of the Marc Sanders Prize 2021.
‘Epistemic Modality’. (Forthcoming.) The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, Third edition.
GRANTS AWARDED
Divine Hiddenness: Shifting the Debate. Awarded by the John Templeton Foundation. $233,378. (2019-2022).
BOOK REVIEWS
Knowledge and God. (forthcoming) Matthew Benton. Faith and Philosophy.
Analyzing Prayer. (2023) Edited by Crisp et al. Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care.
The Hiddenness of God. Michael Rea. (2019) NDPR reviews.
The Hiddenness Argument. J.L. Schellenberg. (2019) International Journal of Philosophy of Religion.
Between Probability and Certainty: What Justifies Belief. Martin Smith. (2017) Analysis, Volume 77 (3): 670–672.
PRESENTATIONS
Learning about Possibilities: Theodicies and Evidence. Rutgers, 2025.
Can a Good God allow so much suffering? Debate. Princeton, 2025.
Divine Hiddenness and Evidence for God, EPS, CA, November 2024. (*keynote)
Learning about Possibilities: Theodicies and Evidence. Midwest Epistemology Workshop, September 2024.
Divine Hiddenness and Evidence for God, Book Symposium, Oxford Univerity, 2024.
Divine Hiddenness and Evidence for God, Book Symposium, St. Andrews, Scotland, 2024.
Theodicies, Evidence, and Imaginative ‘Seeing’, Workshop, Sedona, May 2024.
On Arguments Against God, Notre Dame’s Center for Philosophy of Religion, February 2024.
Divine Hiddenness and Evidence for God, Book Symposium, Notre Dame, 2024.
Theodicies, Evidence, and Imaginative ‘Seeing’, LATAM Bridges in Epistemology of Religion. Houston, TX. November 2023.
Divine Hiddenness and the Problem of Evil, SCP 45th Anniversary Conference, Grand Rapids, 2023. (*keynote)
On Progress in Philosophy, Lycanfest Conference, March 2023.
Problems of Divine Hiddenness, BAPT Conference, March 2023. (*keynote)
Divine Hiddenness, Argentina, July 2022. (taught all-day workshop)
Problems of Divine Hiddenness, Oriel College, Oxford University, May 2022.
Problems of Divine Hiddenness, Spanish Philosophy of Religion Workshop, March 2022.
On Progress in Philosophy, William G. Lycan’s On Evidence in Philosophy, Author-meets-critics session, Central APA, Chicago, Feb 2022.
Divine Hiddenness: An Evidential Argument. Princeton, Oct 2021.
Divine Hiddenness: An Evidential Argument. Brazil, Oct 2021. (*keynote)
Divine Hiddenness: An Evidential Argument. Tyndale Conference, UK, June 2021.
Divine Hiddenness: An Evidential Argument. Pacific APA, March 2021.
Divine Hiddenness: An Evidential Argument, colloquium talk, University of Mississippi, Oct 2020.
Epistemic Uptake. Central APA, February 2020.
Divine Hiddenness: An Evidential Argument. Rutgers, October 2019.
Divine Hiddenness: An Evidential Argument. Saint Louis, August 2019.
Divine Hiddenness: An Evidential Argument. Biola University, March 2019.
Wishful Seeing and the Limits of Ideal Bayesians. SSPP Conference, invited speaker. Cincinnati, March 2019.
Divine Hiddenness: An Evidential Argument. SCP 40th Anniversary Conference, Calvin College, September 2018.
Hope and Hiddenness. Westmont College, May 2018. (*keynote)
Divine Hiddenness: Are Glimpses Enough? Westmont College, May 2018.
On Providing Evidence. TEX Epistemology Workshop, April 2018.
On Providing Evidence. 13th Annual Episteme Conference, Ecuador, July 2017.
Pragmatic Encroachment, E=K, and Fallibilism, Sedona Workshop, February 2017.
Cartesian Infallibilism and Knowledge-First Epistemology, TEX Workshop April 2017.
Cartesian Infallibilism and Knowledge-First Epistemology, Alabama, May 2016.
Divine Hiddenness: Are Glimpses Enough? San Antonio, Jan 2016.
Divine Hiddenness: Are Glimpses Enough? Divine Hiddenness Workshop, organized by Michael Rea. Oregon. October, 2015.
Divine Hiddenness: Are Glimpses Enough? Heythrop College, University of London, June 2015.
Divine Hiddenness: Are Glimpses Enough? Butler Society, Oriel College, Oxford. May 2015.
Putting Fallibilism to Work. TEX (Texas Epistemology) Workshop. April 2015.
Divine Hiddenness: Are Glimpses Enough? Evangelical Theological Society Meeting, San Diego, November 2014.
Defeat, Testimony, and Miracle Reports. Georgetown University, October 2014.
Defeat, Testimony, and Miracles Reports. Rutgers University, May 2014.
Putting Fallibilism to Work. University of Southampton, England. May 2014.
Defeat, Testimony, and Miracles Reports. Workshop, Oxford University, March 2014.
Hume and Dismissing Testimony to the Miraculous. Butler Society, Oriel College, Oxford. March 2014.
Knowledge, Practical Adequacy, and Stakes. University of Edinburgh, October 2013.
Putting Fallibilism to Work. University of Geneva. April 2013.
Putting Fallibilism to Work. University of Innsbruck Workshop. April 2013.
Knowledge, Practical Adequacy, and Stakes. Contextualism, Pragmatic Encroachment, and Religious Epistemology Workshop. Oxford University, March 2013.
Putting Fallibilism to Work. Theoretical Philosophy Work in Progress Group. Oxford, February 2013.
Putting Fallibilism to Work. APA Pacific Division, Seattle, April 2012.
Fallibilism and the Flexibility of Epistemic Modals. APA Central Division, Chicago, February 2012.
On the Intimate Relationship of Knowledge and Action. APA Eastern Division, Washington, D.C., December 2011.
Fallibilism and the Flexibility of Epistemic Modals. Northwestern University Epistemology Brownbag. November 2011.
Knowledge Norms: Rules, Aims, and Strategies. Saint Louis University Graduate Student Conference, October 2011.
Fallibilism and the Flexibility of Epistemic Modals. SCP session at the ACPA meting, October 2011.
Concessive Knowledge Attributions, Fallibilism, and Intra-subjective Modal Flexibility. Epistemology Workshop. University of Arkansas. September 2011.
Hume and Religious Testimony: A Reconstruction of Hume’s Argument Concerning Miracles. SCP Midwest Region Conference, 2009.
COMMENTS
On Dan Speak’s ‘The Value of Christian Maturity.’ Santa Barbara, CA. May, 2024.
On Ted Poston’s ‘Resurrecting the Evidentialist Challenge to Theism.’ New Orleans, 2023.
On ‘Fine-tuning Fine-tuning.’ Hawthorne & Isaacs. USC, CA. March 2019.
On “Against the Doctrine of Infallibility” Christopher Willard-Kyle. Central APA Symposium, Denver, February 2019.
On Miriam Schoenfield’s “Permissivism, Disagreement, and the Value of Rationality.” Formal Epistemology Workshop, Texas A&M, December 2015.
On Michael Bergmann’s “Religious Disagreement and Epistemic Intuition.” Social Epistemology of Religion Conference, Indiana. October, 2015.
On Helen de Cruz’s “The Epistemology of Religious Experience Through Practiced Skills,” Texas A&M, February 2015.
TEACHING
PHIL 5319 Philosophical Writing Seminar (graduate level) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
PHIL 5321 Contemporary Issues in Epistemology (graduate seminar) 2015, 2018, 2023, 2025.
PHIL 5312 Divine Hiddenness (graduate seminar) fall 2017.
PHIL 4311 Epistemology (undergraduate) 2016, 2017, 2021.
PHIL 5321 Social Epistemology (graduate seminar) 2020.
PHIL 5321 Fallibilism and Evidence (graduate seminar) spring 2016.
PHIL 1321 Intro Topics in Philosophy: Doubt, Questioning, and the Pursuit of Truth. 2014- 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
PHIL 3312 Introduction to Modern Philosophy, fall 2015.
PHIL 5321 Defeat and Disagreement. Independent study. (graduate level) fall 2015.
PHIL 205 Introduction to Ethics, Saint Louis University. spring 2010.
PHIL 105 Historical Introduction to Philosophy, Saint Louis University. 2008-2009.
PHIL 103 Introduction to Philosophy, Biola University. 2006-2007.
Teaching Assistant under Susan Brower-Toland, Medieval Philosophy, spring 2008.
Teaching Assistant under Gregg Ten Elshof, Introduction to Philosophy, fall 2004.
High school instructor, Torrey Academy. 2004-2007.
DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Search Committee, Member. 2024-2025.
Undergraduate Chapel Development Committee, 2023.
Search Committee, Chair, 2022-2023.
Undergrad Curriculum Committee, member, 2021-present.
Climate Committee, Chair, 2018-present.
Dissertation Advisor:
Nathan Mueller, 2019-present.
Anna Judd, 2023-present.
Graduate Student Admissions, committee member, 2020, 2022.
Search Committee member, 2019-2020.
Crane Scholar Mentor, 2018-2020.
Honors Thesis director, 2018-2020. Katie Chilton.
Search Committee member, 2018-2019. (search for two positions)
Dissertation committee member: Greta Turnbull, defended 2019.
Allison Thornton, defended 2017.
Jay Medenwaldt, defended 2023.
University Scholar Exit interview examiner, fall 2018.
Faculty Representative for the Baylor LLC (Russell Hall), 2017-2018.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Research leave, spring 2024.
Plantinga Prize, Honorable Mention, 2022.
Marc Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Religion, 2021.
Research leave, spring 2019.
Institute for Studies of Religion, resident fellow, 2018-present.
Summer Faculty Institute, participant, 2018.
Rising Star, Baylor University, 2014-present.
Summer Sabbatical Award, Baylor University, 2017.
Associate Membership, Oriel College, Oxford University, Trinity term 2016.
Academic Visitor, New Insights Project, Oxford University, Trinity term 2015.
Summer Sabbatical Award, Baylor University, 2015.
Edward L. and Rhelda Marbry Morgan, Ph.D., Endowed Book Fund Award, 2012. ($725)
Graduate Student Travel Stipend (x3), American Philosophical Association (2011-2012, $900 total)
SLU2K Research Fellowship, Saint Louis University, 2011-2012.
SLU2K Research Fellowship, Saint Louis University, 2010-2011.
James Collins Award for Excellence. Saint Louis University, 2010. (outstanding graduate student award in philosophy department)
High Honors, Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University. 2004. (top 10% of honors program)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL WORK
Participant, Humility and Arrogance Conference, Arizona State University, March 2024.
Executive Editor, Journal of Analytic Theology, 2023-present.
SCP Nominating Committee, 2023-present.
Program committee, Central APA, 2023-2024.
Society of Philosophy of Religion, membership. 2023-present. (invitation only)
LATAM Bridges Workshop, Argentina, July 2022. Invited Speaker.
Resident Scholar, SET (Science Engaged Theology) Workshop, La Jolla, May 2022.
Referee for the APA Plantinga Prize, 2023.
SCP Nominating Committee, 2020-2022.
Conference Organizer, Divine Hiddenness: Shifting the Debate, Baylor 2021.
Assistant Director, Baylor Center for Christian Philosophy, 2018-present.
Co-organizer, TEX Epistemology Annual Workshop, 2016-present.
Chair of Organization Committee, SCP at Central APA. 2014-2020.
Journal Referee: Synthese, Dialectica, Erkenntnis, Mind, Nous, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Papers, Episteme, American Philosophical Quarterly, PPR, Journal of Philosophical Research, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Faith and Philosophy, Religious Studies, Mind & Language.
Participant, Epistemology and Public Engagement Workshop, Notre Dame, June 2019.
Participant, Women in Philosophy of Religion Workshop, March 2018; June 2019.
Participant, Future of Christian Philosophy Summit, Notre Dame, August 2017.
Participant, St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion. 2012.
President, Philosophy Graduate Student Association, Saint Louis University, 2010-2011.
Invited Participant. Logos Workshop in Philosophical Theology, Notre Dame, 2011, 2012.
Invited Participant. Logos Workshop in Philosophical Theology, Rutgers, 2010.
Co-organizer. Saint Louis University Graduate Student Conference on Social Epistemology, October 2011.
Logistical Coordinator for Notre Dame’s Center for Philosophy of Religion Conference: “My Ways are Not Your Ways: The Character of the God of the Hebrew Bible.” Fall 2009.
REFERENCES
John Greco
john.greco@georgetown.edu
John Hawthorne
jhawthor@usc.edu
Michael Rea
michael.rea2@gmail.com