February 2008
EDUCATION:
Boston College, Ph.D. Philosophy, 1977
Boston College, M.A., Philosophy, 1975
Antioch College and Harvard University, B.A., Philosophy, 1974
POSITIONS:
Professor of Philosophy, Western Michigan University (Fall 1995 - present)
Western Michigan University Distinguished Faculty Scholar (2001 - present)
Editor-in-Chief of Philo: A Journal of Philosophy. (2001 - 2007)
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Western Michigan University (Fall 1993 - Spring 1995)
The Lillian Pierson Lovelace Visiting Professor, Antioch College (Spring 1991 - Spring 1993)
Visiting Research Professor, Antioch University (Spring 1991 - Spring 1993)
Visiting Scholar, Case Western Reserve University (1990 - 1991)
Visiting Scholar, Purdue University (1989 - 1990)
Independent Scholar (1981 - 1988)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky (1978 - 1980)
OTHER POSITIONS:
Philosophy Editor, Prometheus Books
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
Selected to be the University's Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa in 2002
American Council of Learned Societies, 1996, for work on the philosophy of time and quantum cosmology. Amount awarded: $20,000.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1995, for work on the philosophy of time and quantum cosmology. Amount awarded: $4000.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1986, for work on the philosophy of time. Amount Awarded: $3000.
Recipient of 1986 Rockefeller Award for the best philosophical work by an academically unaffiliated philosopher, for the article "Problems with the New Tenseless Theory of Time". Amount awarded: $1000.
Runner-up for Machette Prize for the best philosophy book of 1985-86, for The Felt Meanings of the World.
Runner-up of 1984 Rockefeller Award for the best philosophical work Selected to be the University's Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa in 2002
BOOKS:
PUBLISHED BOOKS:
Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity. Co-edited with William Lane Craig, and contributing author. Routledge, London 2008.
Epistemology: New Essays. Editor Quentin Smith. Oxford University Press, Oxford, Spring 2008.
Time, Tense and Reference. Co-edited with A. Jokic, and contributing author. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, October 2003.
Consciousness: New Philosophical Perspectives. Co-edited with A. Jokic, and contributing author. Oxford University Press, Oxford, January 2003.
Language and Time. Oxford University Press, New York, 2002. Pp. 259. Paperback edition. (Hardcover edition published 1993).
Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Language. . Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1997. Pp. 264.
Time, Change and Freedom. . Co-authored with L. Nathan Oaklander. Routledge, New York, 1995. Pp.218.
The New Theory of Time. Co-authored and co-edited with L. Nathan Oaklander. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1994. Pp. 378.
Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology. Co-authored with William Lane Craig. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993. Pp. 357.
The Felt Meanings of the World: A Metaphysics of Feeling. Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, IN, 1986. (Second Edition Forthcoming).
ARTICLES
" A Naturalistic Account of the Universe. " in Philosophy of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Issues (eds. Paul Copan and Chad Meister). Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2008. pages 156-169.
" A Radical Rethinking of Quantum Gravity: Rejecting Einstein's Relativity and unifying Bohmian quantum mechanics with a Bell-neo-Lorentzian absolute time, space and gravity. " in Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity. (eds. Q. Smith and William Lane Craig). Routledge, London, 2008. pages 73-124.
" Kalam Cosmological Argument for Atheism. " in Cambridge Companion to Atheism (ed. Michael Martin). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007.
" Why Stephen Hawking's Cosmology Precludes a Creator. " in The Improbability of God (eds. Michael Martin and Rickie Monnier). Prometheus Books, Amherst, 2006. pages 94-106. (originally published in Philo: A Journal of Philosophy , Volume 1, 1998, pages 75-93).
" Stephen Hawking's Cosmology and Theism. " in The Improbability of God (eds. Michael Martin and Rickie Monnier). Prometheus Books, Amherst, 2006. pages 86-93. (reprinted in The Existence of God eds. Richard Gale and Alexander Pruss, Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2003.) (originally published in Analysis, Volume 54, pages 236-243.)
" A Defense of the Cosmological Argument for God's Nonexistence. " in The Improbability of God (eds. Michael Martin and Rickie Monnier). Prometheus Books, Amherst, 2006. pages 61-81. (reprinted from Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology , eds. William Lane Craig and Q. Smith, Oxford; Clarendon, 1993. pages 232-255.
" Atheism, Theism, and Big Bang Cosmology. " in The Improbability of God(eds. Michael Martin and Rickie Monnier). Prometheus Books, Amherst, 2006. pages 41-60. (reprinted from Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology , eds. William Lane Craig and Q. Smith, Oxford; Clarendon, 1993. pages 195-217.)
" An Atheological Argument from Evil Natural Laws. " in The Improbability of God (eds. Michael Martin and Rickie Monnier). Prometheus Books, Amherst, 2006. pages 235-249. (reprinted from International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 29, 1999, pages 159-174).
" Time, Being and Becoming. " in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy Macmillan, New York, 2006.
" A Sound Logical Argument From Evil. " in The Impossibility of God (eds. Michael Martin and Rickie Monnier). Prometheus Books, Amherst, 2005. (reprinted from Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Language, by Quentin Smith, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1997. pages 148-157).
" Why Cognitive Scientists Cannot Ignore Quantum Mechanics. " in Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays (eds. A. Jokic and Q. Smith). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. "
" Moral Realism and Infinite Spacetime Imply Moral Nihilism. " in (ed. Heather Dyke) Time and Ethics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 43-54.
" Reference to the Past and Future. " in Time, Tense and Reference (eds. A. Jokic and Q. Smith). M.I.T. Press, 2003.
" Time Was Created by a Timeless Point: An Atheist Explanation of Spacetime. " in Gegansall and Woodruff (eds.), God and Time. New York. Oxford University Press, 2001.
" Time and Degrees of Existence. " in (ed. Craig Callender) Time, Reality and Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
" Actuality and Actuality As of a Time." in The Importance of Time, (ed. L. Nathan Oaklander) Kluwer Academic Publishers: Philosophical Studies Series, 2001.
" The Incompatibility of STR and the Tensed Theory of Time. " in The Importance of Time, (ed. L. Nathan Oaklander), Kluwer Academic Publishers: Philosophical Studies Series, 2001.
"The Nature of Physical Objects." in The Importance of Time, (ed. L. Nathan Oaklander), Kluwer Academic Publishers: Philosophical Studies Series, 2001.
"Is Time a Secondary Quality?", in The Importance of Time, (ed. L. Nathan Oaklander), Kluwer Academic Publishers: Philosophical Studies Series, 2001.
"Peter Ludlow's Presentism." in Proceedings of the Philosophy of Time Society, Volume Three forthcoming.
"Defeasible Justifiers for Beliefs About Metaphysical Possibilities and Necessities." in Epistemology: New Philosophical Essays (ed. Q. Smith). Oxford. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
" The Metaphysical Necessity of Natural Laws " in Philosophica: Special Issue on Science and Metaphysics, Volume 67, pp. 901-925, 2001.
" The Metaphilosophy of Naturalism ", Philo: A Journal of Philosophy , Volume 4, Number 2, 2001, Fall issue.
" Problems with John Earman's Attempt to Reconcile Theism with General Relativity ", Erkentniss 52: 1-27, 2000.
" Concerning the Metaphysical Necessity of the Universe Beginning Uncaused: A reply to George Nakhnikian ", Philo: A Journal of Philosophy , Volume 2, 2000, Spring-Summer issue.
" The "Sentence-Type Version" Of The Tenseless Theory Of Time ", Synthese. 1999, 119: 233-251.
" Marcus' 1961 Article As A Termination of Russellian Dominance In Analytic Philosophy " in H. Launer (ed), Dialectica (Festschrift for Ruth Barcan Marcus) Vol. 53. 1999. Pp. 179-210.
" The Reason the Universe Exists is that it Caused Itself to Exist ", Philosophy, Volume 74, 1999. pp. 136-146.
" Absolute Simultaneity and the Infinity of Time ", in (ed.) Robin Le Poidevin, Questions of Time and Tense. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 135-183.
" Essay on Leslie's The End of the World ", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 28, No. 3. 1998, pp. 413-434.
" Swinburne's Explanation of the Universe ", Religious Studies, Vol. 34, 1998, pp. 91-102.
" Why Stephen Hawking's Cosmology Precludes a Creator ", Philo: A Journal of Philosophy , Volume 1, Issue 1, 1998, pp. 75-94. (reprinted in The Improbability of God eds. Michael Martin and Ricki Monnier, Prometheus Books, Amherst, 2006. pages 94-106.)
" Direct, Rigid Designation and A Posteriori Necessity ", in (eds. James Fetzer and Paul Humphreys), The New Theory of Reference: Kripke, Marcus and Its Origins. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Synthese Library Series 1998, pp. 137-178.
"A More Comprehensive History of the New Theory of Reference", in (eds. James Fetzer and Paul Humphreys), The New Theory of Reference: Kripke, Marcus and Its Origins Kluwer Academic Publishers: Synthese Library Series 1998, pp. 235-283.
" The Ontological Interpretation of the Wave Function of the Universe ", The Monist: Special Issue on Quantum Mechanics and the Real World, edited by Barry Loewer, 1997, Volume 80, No. 1, 1997. pp. 160-185.
" Simplicity and Why the Universe Exists ", Philosophy, Vol. 72, No. 279, 1997, pp. 125-132.
"Tense and Temporal Logic", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1997.)
" Quantum Cosmology's Implication of Atheism ", Analysis 57, 1997, pp. 295-304.
" Causation and the Logical Impossibility of a Divine Cause ", Philosophical Topics: Metaphysics, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 1996, pp. 169-191.
"Time, Being, and Becoming", in (ed. Donald M. Borchert) Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Supplement. (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1996), pp. 567-568.
" Internal and External Causal Explanations of the Universe ", Philosophical Studies, Volume 79, 1995, pp. 283-310.
" Marcus, Kripke, and the Origin of The New Theory of Reference ", Synthese, Volume 104, No. 2, August 1995, pp. 179-189. Reprinted in (eds. James Fetzer and Paul Humphreys), The New Theory of Reference: Kripke, Marcus and Its Origins, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Synthese Library Series 1998, pp. 3-12.)
" Marcus and the New Theory of Reference: A Reply to Scott Soames ", Synthese, Volume 104, No. 2, August 1995, pp. 217-244. Reprinted in (eds. James Fetzer and Paul Humphreys), The New Theory of Reference: Kripke, Marcus and Its Origins Kluwer Academic Publishers: Synthese Library Series, 1998, pp. 37-61.
" A Defense of a Principle of Sufficient Reason ", Metaphilosophy, Volume 26, Nos. 1 and 2, January and April, 1995, pp. 97-106.
"Cosmology", Encyclopedia of Time (New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1995).
" Explanatory Rationalism and Contingent Truths ", Religious Studies, Volume 31, 1995, pp. 237-242.
" Stephen Hawking's Cosmology and Theism ", Analysis, Vol. 54, No. 4. October, 1994, pp. 236-243. Reprinted in The Existence of God eds. Richard Gale and Alexander Pruss, Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2003. Also reprinted in The Improbability of God eds. Michael Martin and Ricki Monnier, Prometheus Books, Amherst, 2006. pages 86-93.
"Anthropic Explanations in Cosmology", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 72, No. 3, September, 1994, pp. 371-382.
" Did the Big Bang Have a Cause? ", The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 45, March, 1994, pp. 649-668.
" Can Everything Come to Be Without a Cause? ", Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, Vol. 33, 1994, pp. 325-335.
" The Conceptualist Argument for God's Existence ", Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 11, No. 1, January 1994, pp. 38-49.
"Change", in A Companion to Metaphysics, ed. Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa (Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, November, 1994).
"Timelessness", in A Companion to Metaphysics, ed. Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa (Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, November, 1994).
"The Implications of the Tensed and Tenseless Theories of Time" in The New Theory of Time, eds. L.N. Oaklander and Q. Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).
"The Old and New Tenseless Theories of Time", in The New Theory of Time, eds. L.N. Oaklander and Q. Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).
"The Truth Conditions of Tensed Sentences", in The New Theory of Time, eds. L.N. Oaklander and Q. Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).
"Smart and Mellor's New Tenseless Theory of Time: A Reply to Oaklander" in The New Theory of Time, eds. L. N. Oaklander and Q. Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).
"Williams' Defense of the New Tenseless Theory of Time" in The New Theory of Time, eds. L.N. Oaklander and Q. Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).
"Mellor and McTaggart's Paradox" in The New Theory of Time, eds. L.N. Oaklander and Q. Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).
"The Concept of a Cause of the Universe", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 23, No. 1, March 1993, pp.1-24.
"The Possible Infinitude of the Past", International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1, March 1993, pp. 109-115.
"The World's Features and their Pure Appreciation", The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1993, pp. 39-47.
"Personal Identity and Time", Philosophia, Vol. 22, Nos. 1-2, January 1993, pp. 155-167.
" A Big Bang Cosmological Argument For God's Nonexistence ", Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 2, April 1992, pp. 217-237.
" Anthropic Coincidences, Evil and the Disconfirmation of Theism ", Religious Studies, Vol. 28, 1992, pp. 347-350.
" The New Theory of Reference Entails Absolute Time and Space ", Philosophy of Science, Vol. 58, No. 3, September 1991, pp. 411-416.
" Atheism, Theism and Big Bang Cosmology ", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 69, No. 1, March 1991, pp. 48-66.
"Concerning the Absurdity of Life", Philosophy, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 1991, pp. 119-121.
"Castaneda's Quasi-Indicators and the Tensed Theory of Time", Critica, Vol. 23, No. 67, April 1991, pp. 59-73.
" Reply to Vallicella: Heidegger and Idealism ", International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 2, June 1991, pp. 231-235.
" An Atheological Argument from Evil Natural Laws ", International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 29, 1991, pp. 159-174.
" Wilshire's Theory of the Authentic Self " Theory of the Authentic Self", Human Studies, Vol. 14, 1991, pp. 339-357.
"Time and Propositions", Philosophia, Vol. 20, No. 3, December 1990, pp. 279-294.
"The Co-reporting Theory of Tensed and Tenseless Sentences", The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 159, April 1990, pp. 213-222.
" A Natural Explanation of the Existence and Laws of Our Universe ", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 68, No. 1, March 1990, pp. 22-43.
"Temporal Indexicals", Erkenntnis, Vol. 32, No. 1, Winter 1990, pp. 5-25.
" A New Typology of Temporal and Atemporal Permanence ", Nous, Vol. 23, No. 3, June 1989, pp. 307-330.
" The Multiple Uses of Indexicals ", Synthese, Vol. 78, No. 2, February 1989, pp. 167-191.
"Bruce Wilshire and the Dilemma of Nontheistic Existentialism", Philosophy Today, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter 1989, pp. 358-373.
"The Logical Structure of the Debate About McTaggart's Paradox", Philosophy Research Archives, Vol. 24, 1988-89, pp. 371-379.
" An Analysis of Holiness ", Religious Studies, Vol. 24, December 1988, pp. 511-527.
"Tensed States of Affairs and Possible Worlds", Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol. 31, 1988, pp. 225-235.
" The Uncaused Beginning of the Universe ", Philosophy of Science, Vol. 55, No. 1, March 1988, pp. 39-57.
" The Phenomenology of A-Time ", Dialogos, Vol. 23, No. 52, July 1988, pp. 143-153.
"Problems with the New Tenseless Theory of Time", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 52, No. 3, November 1987, pp. 371-392. Reprinted in Readings in Metaphysics:, ed. (Michael Loux), Routledge Publishers, forthcoming.
" Infinity and the Past ", Philosophy of Science, Vol. 54, No. 1, March 1987, pp. 63-75.
" Sentences About Time ", The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 146, January 1987, pp. 37-53.
"World Ensemble Explanations", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1, January 1986, pp. 73-86.
" The Impossibility of Token-Reflexive Analyses ", Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, Vol. 25, No. 4, Winter 1986, pp. 757-760.
" The Infinite Regress of Temporal Attributions ", The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall 1986, pp. 383-396.
" On the Beginning of Time ", Nous, Vol. 19, No. 4, December 1985, pp. 579-584.
"A.N. Prior and the Finitude of Time", Critica, Vol. 17, No. 51, December 1985, pp. 97-100.
" The Anthropic Principle of Many-Worlds Cosmologies ", The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 63, No. 3, September 1985, pp. 336-348.
" Kant and the Beginning of the World ", The New Scholasticism, Vol. 59, No. 3, Summer 1985, pp. 339-346.
" The Mind-Independence of Temporal Becoming ", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1, January 1985, pp. 109-119.
" Four Teleological Orders of Human Action ", Philosophical Topics, Vol. 12, No. 3., Winter 1981, pp. 312-335.
" On Heidegger's Theory of Moods ", The Modern Schoolman, Vol. 58, no. 4, May 1981, pp. 211-235.
" Husserl's Early Conception of the Triadic Structure of the Intentional Act ", Philosophy Today, Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring 1981, pp. 81-91.
" Sartre's Theory of the Progressive and Regressive Methods of Phenomenology ", Man and World, Vol. 12, No. 4, Fall 1979, pp. 433-444.
"Sartre and the Phenomenon of Emotion", The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 17, No. 3, Fall 1979, pp. 397-412.
"A Contradiction in Sartre's Theory of Freedom", The Personalist, Vol. 60, No. 4, October 1979, pp. 369-372.
"Husserl's Theory of the Phenomenological Reduction in the Logical Investigations", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 39, No. 3, March 1979, pp. 433-4437.
"Max Scheler and the Classification of Feelings", Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Vol. 9, Nos. 1 and 2, Fall 1978 pp. 114-138.
" Scheler's Critique of Husserl's Theory of the World of the Natural Standpoint ", The Modern Schoolman, Vol. 55, No. 4, May 1978, pp. 387-396.
" A Phenomenological Examination of Husserl's Theory of Hyletic Data ", Philosophy Today, Vol. 21, No. 4, Winter 1977, pp. 356-367.
" On Husserl's Theory Of Consciousness In The Fifth Logical Investigation ", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 37, No. 4, June 1977, pp. 482-497.
"Sartre and the Matter of Mental Images", The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 8, No. 2, May 1977, pp. 69-78.
"Scheler's Stratification of Emotional Life and Strawson's Person", Philosophical Studies (Ireland), Vol. 25, 1977, pp. 103-127.
" Husserl and the Inner Structure of Feeling-Acts ", Research in Phenomenology, Vol. 6, 1976, pp. 84-104.
REVIEWS
"Peter "Ludlow's Semantics, Tense, and Time", The Philosophical Review, forthcoming.
" Philip Turetzky's Time ", British Journal of the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming in 2001.
" Michael Tooley's Time Tense Causation ", The Philosophical Review, Vol. 108, No. 1 January 1999, pp. 123-127.
"Ruth Barcan Marcus's Modalities", Philosophy of Science, June, 1995.
"John Leslie's Physical Cosmology and Philosophy", Nous, Vol. 28, No. 2, June 1994, pp. 262-269.
" John Leslie's The End of the World ", Nous, Vol. 28, No. 2, June 1994, pp. 262-269.
"Peter McInerney's Time and Experience", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 53, No. 3, September 1993, pp. 736-739.
"William Lane Craig's Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 53, No. 2, June 1993, pp. 493-495.
"Ramesh Patel's Philosophy of the Gita", International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 1, March 1992, pp. 136-138.
"Bruce Wilshire's The Moral Collapse of the University", Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 61, No. 2, May 1991, pp. 225-231.
"Marie-Luise Schubet Kalsi's Alexius Meinong: On Objects of Higher Order and Husserl's Phenomenology", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 42, No. 3, March 1983, pp. 451-452.
"Franz Brentano's The Origin of Our Knowledge of Right and Wrong", Philosophical Studies (Ireland), Vol. 28, 1981, pp. 406-410.
"Alfons Deeken's Process and Permanence in Ethics: Max Scheler's Moral Philosophy", Philosophical Studies (Ireland), Vol. 28, 1981, pp. 403-406.
"Suzanne Cunningham's The Phenomenological Reductions of Edmund Husserl", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 39, No. 2, December 1978, pp. 286-288.
PAPERS PRESENTED (Selected)
2003, "A Naturalist Explanation of the Universe's
Existence", Harvard University
2003, "Atheism and Cosmology", the ASA/Templeton Science and Religion
Visiting Lecture, Florida International University
2002 Some Logically Possible Ways for Time to Begin,
University of Minnesota at Milwaukee.
2002 The Nature of Time, Macalaster College,
Minnesota.
2002. Vilenkin's Theory of Quantum Gravity Cosmology,
Physics Department, Tufts University
2002. The Self-Causation of the Universe by an
Infinite, Simultaneous Bohmian Wave Function, Davidson College
2001, "The Logical Argument from Evil", Disproof Atheism
Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
2001, Is the Big Bang an
Explosion of Matter in Another Universe?, International Conference on
Cosmology and Philosophy, Atlanta, Georgia.
2001, Questions About the
Spontaneity of Nothingness, Society of Humanist Philosophers, APA session.
2001, Quantum Cosmology
and Explaining the Universe, APA Session of Society of Humanist
Philosophers
2001, Moral Realism, Infinite Time, And Additive Value Theory Imply Moral Realism?, University of Otego, New Zealand.
2000 "The
Black Hole Origin Theory of the Universe: Frontiers of Speculative, Current
Physical Cosmology", Internal Conference on Physical Cosmology, Santa
Barbara.
2000 "The Atheistic Project of Explaining Why
the Universe Exists", Society for Secular Humanism, APA, New York.
2000 "Eliminative Presentism and Modal
Presentism", Philosophy of Time Society,APA, New York
2000 "Time and Existence", The Royal Institute
of Philosophy Conference, London School of Economics.
2000 "Can the Big Bang be Explained?", London
School of Economics, Dept. of History and Philosophy of the Natural Sciences.
2000 "The Origin of the Universe by Natural
Selection", International Conference on Cosmology, Santa Barbara City College,
sponsered by the Center for Education.
1999 "Are There Three Types of Truth
Conditions?", Eastern Division APA, Philosophy of Time Society.
1999 "Robin Le Poidevin's Theory of Time",
Eastern Division APA meeting, Philosophy of Time Society.
1999 "Some Definitions of Time's Beginning",
University of Colorado at Boulder.
1999" Atheistic versus Theistic Explanations
of the Beginning of Spacetime", Society of Chrisitan Philosophers Meeting,
George Fox College
1999: "The
Reason the Universe Exists is that it Caused Itself to Exist", Society of Christian Philosophers Meeting,
George Fox College
1998. "Problems about the Beginning and End of
Time", University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1998. "Big Bang Cosmology and Atheism",
Davidson College.
1998. "Is the Universe Fine Tuned for
Intelligent Life?", Notre Dame University.
1998. "Quantum Gravity and the Problem of
Consciousness", International Conference on the Philosophy of Mind, Santa
Barbara City College.
1998. "Why Does Time Exist?", Eastern Division
APA, Philosophy of Time Society.
1998. "Explaining the Origin of Spacetime by
Principles of Simplicity", Notre Dame University.
1998. "Actuality and Actuality as of a Time",
Central Division APA meeting, Philosophy of Time Society.
1997. "Why David Kaplan Needs to be
World-Indexed", International Conference on Time, Tense and Reference, April
11-13, Santa Barbara City College.
1997. "Time and What Exists" Michigan State
University April 4.
1997. "Why Hawking's Cosmology Precludes a
Creator", Society for Humanist Philosophers, Buffalo.
1997. "The Logical Problem of Evil", Pacific
Division APA meeting.
1997. "The Divisibility of Space and Time",
Pacific Division APA meeting, Philosophy of Time Society. 1996
"Two
Ways to Prove Atheism," Atheist Alliance convention in Minneapolis
1996. "Quantum Gravity and Why the Universe
Exists", Middle Tennessee State University
1996. "Stephen Hawking's Quantum Cosmology and
Atheism", Hope College.
1996. "The Maximalist Tensed Theory of Time",
Notre Dame University.
1996. "Physical Cosmology and Atheism",
University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.
1996. "Can God Cause the Big Bang?", Southern
Methodist University.
1995. " The Inconsistency of Quantum Cosmology
and Classical Theism", Notre Dame University.
1995. "A New Defence of the Principle of
Sufficient Reason", Central Division APA meeting in Chicago.
1995. "The Impossibility of a Divine Cause of
the Universe", West Virginia University.
1995. "Real Time, Imaginary Time, and Quantum
Cosmology", for Philosophy of Time Society at APA meeting..
1994. "Marcus, Kripke and the Origin of the New
Theory of Reference", Eastern Division APA Meeting in Boston.
1994. "Counterfactuals and Token-Reflexive
Truth Conditions", for Philosophy of Time Society at APA Meeting in Boston.
1994. "Cognitive Significance and the New
Theory of Reference", Northern Illinois University.
1994. "Explaining the Beginning of the
Universe", University of Manitoba.
1994."The Probabilist Argument from Evil",
University of Manitoba.
1993."Temporal Becoming and Physics", for
Philosophy of Time Society Meeting in at APA meeting in Atlanta.
1993."The Anthropic Principle", University of
Pittsburgh
1991."Conceptualism and Theism", APA meeting
in Chicago.
1990."A Criticism of Einstein's Theory of
Relativity", Case Western Reserve University
1989."The Problem of Personal Identity Across
Time", University of Iowa
1989."Nihilism and the Atheology of Holiness",
Rutgers University
POPULAR PRESS OR IN-HOUSE PUBLICATIONS "Big Bang Cosmology and Atheism",
The
Free Inquiry, Spring 1998, pp. 38-42.
"The Metaphysical Necessity
of Natural Laws", Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society, Vol. 18. 1996-97, pp.
104-123 "Our Knowledge of Metaphysical
Possibilities", Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society
TELEVISION INTERVIEWS FOR PBS "the Examined Life: Does God
Exist?", PBS, first aired Fall 1999. Videos sold for video librarires at
universities. Discussants: Daniel Dennet, Quentin Smith, William Craig, Peter
van Inwagen, Robert Adams, Marylin McCord Adams, Keith Ward, Nicholas
Wolterstorff.
"The Examined Life: The Nature of
Time", PBS, first aired Fall 1999, Videos sold for video libraries at
universities. Discussants: D. H. Mellor, Paul Churchland, Michael Friedman,
Quentin Smith, William Craig "Today's Life Choices: Science
and Religion", PBS, First aired November 1997. Videos sold for video libraries
at universities.
RADIO BROADCASTS FOR PBS "Debate with William Craig on Theism and
Atheism", aired Spring 1996 on "All Things Considered" nightly
news broadcast.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Referee for Philosophy of Science,
British Journal
for the Philosophy of Synthese, Synthese, Nous, Erkentniss,
Religious Studies,
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Journal of Philosophical Research,
The
Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, Sophia, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and other
journals. Editorial Advisor for Oxford
University Press, MIT Press, Routledge Publishers and Kluwer Academic
Publishers. External evaluator for
tenure and promotion decisions for various universities.