I am Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Wycliffe Hall. My research interests are mainly at the intersection of philosophy of religion and epistemology, and I have a book with Cambridge University Press (forthcoming), God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity, which deals with a number of themes in this area. I have also recently published on the problem of divine hiddenness, the role of natural theology in religious epistemology, and the epistemological implications of discoveries about the causal origins of religious beliefs.
I received my DPhil in Philosophy from Oxford University in 2014 and subsequently held two postdoctoral research fellowships, one at Oxford as part of the New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology project (2014-15) and one at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Philosophy of Religion (2015-16).
Research Interests:
Analytic philosophy of religion; theories of knowledge; epistemic rationality; natural theology; the problem of divine hiddenness; the causal origins of religious beliefs; the nature of faith.
Publications:
God and the Problem of Evidential Ambiguity. Forthcoming. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
"On Sin-Based Responses to Divine Hiddenness." Religious Studies, forthcoming.
"Natural Theology and Religious Belief." In The Cambridge Companion to Religious Epistemology. Edited by John Greco, Jonathan Fuqua, and Tyler Dalton McNabb, 13-28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
"Debunking Arguments in Parallel: The Cases of Religious and Moral Belief." In Evolutionary Debunking Arguments: Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mathematics, and Epistemology. Edited by Diego Machuca, 105-128. London: Routledge, 2023.
"Embodiment in the New Creation." In Death, Immortality, and Eternal Life. Edited by T. Ryan Byerly, 180-191. London: Routledge, 2021.
"Meeting the Evil God Challenge." Co-authored with Ben Page. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 101:3 (2020), 489–514.
"Testimony amidst Diversity." In Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology. Edited by Matthew Benton, John Hawthorne, and Dani Rabinowitz, 183-202. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
"Complexly-Based Beliefs and the Generality Problem for Reliabilism." Quaestiones Disputatae 8:2 (2018), 19–35.
"Mutual Epistemic Dependence and the Demographic Divine Hiddenness Problem." Religious Studies, 52:1 (2016), 375–394.
"Analytic Theology and Analytic Philosophy of Religion: What’s the Difference?" Journal of Analytic Theology 4 (2016), 347–361.
"Defeatism Defeated" (co-authored with Matthew Benton). Philosophical Perspectives 29:1 (2015), 40–66.
"Religious Diversity and Epistemic Luck." International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 76 (2014), 171–191.
