People

Project Directors

Yujin Nagasawa

Yujin Nagasawa (Ph.D., Australian National University) is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham. His research currently focuses on metaphysical problems in the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of mind. He has published articles in numerous leading journals, including Mind, Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, Religious Studies, Faith and Philosophy, and International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. He is author of God and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments (Cambridge University Press, 2008), The Existence of God: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2011) and Maximal God: A New Defence of Perfect Being Theism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). He is book series editor/co-editor for Cambridge Elements (Philosophy of Religion) and Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion and philosophy of religion editor for Philosophy Compass. He is also an editorial board member of Religious Studies and International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

Andrei A. Buckareff

Andrei A. Buckareff (Ph.D., University of Rochester) is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Marist College. His research currently focuses on metaphysical problems in the philosophy of action and the philosophy of religion. He has published chapters in various collections and articles in numerous leading journals, including Canadian Journal of Philosophy, International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Studies, Religious Studies, Synthese, and elsewhere. He has co-edited five collections, including, most recently, with Yujin Nagasawa, Alternative Concepts of God: Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine (Oxford University Press, 2016) and, with Carlos Moya and Sergi Rosell, Agency, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015). He serves on the editorial board of Science, Religion, and Culture.

Associate

Dean Zimmerman

Dean Zimmerman (Ph.D., Brown University) specializes in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. He is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and the Director of the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion. He founded and typically organizes Metaphysical Mayhem, a biennial summer workshop for graduate students; and he is co-organizer, with Michael Rota, of the St. Thomas Summer Seminars in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology. Articles include: “Presentism and the Space-Time Manifold”, in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time (2011); and “From Property Dualism to Substance Dualism”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Vol. 84 (2010). Zimmerman is editor or co-editor of over a dozen books, including nine volumes of the ongoing Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. He is writing a book on the philosophy of religion for the Princeton Foundations of Philosophy series.

Project Advisors

Oliver Crisp

Oliver Crisp is Professor of Systematic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, and a Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology, University of St Andrews, Scotland. He was born and raised in West London, England, and educated at Wimbledon School of Art; the University of Aberdeen (BD, MTh, DLitt); and King's College, London (PhD). He has taught at the universities of St Andrews, Bristol, and Regent College, Vancouver, B.C. He has held post-doctoral fellowships at Notre Dame and CTI, Princeton. He is a past Secretary, Society for the Study of Theology, UK; past committee member, British Society for Philosophy of Religion; founding editor, Journal of Analytic Theology; series editor, Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology; and co-founder/organizer of the annual LA Theology Conferences. He serves on editorial boards of International Journal of Systematic Theology, and Jonathan Edwards Studies. He currently serves on the steering committee of the AAR Christian Systematic Theology Section and the Analytic Theology Consultation for ETS. He is also the Principle Investigator of the $2 million dollar Templeton-funded grant, “Analytic Theology for Theological Formation” (2016-2018) at Fuller Seminary. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Deviant Calvinism: Broadening Reformed Theology (Fortress, 2014), Jonathan Edwards Among the Theologians (Eerdmans, 2015), and The Word Enfleshed: Exploring the Person and Work of Christ (Baker Academic, 2016).

Georg Gasser

Georg Gasser (Ph.D., Innsbruck University) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the department of Christian Philosophy, Innsbruck University (Austria). His main research interests focus on the metaphysics of agency, personal identity and the philosophy of religion. He has a secondary interest in ontological issues related to meta-ethics and in current German systematic theology. G. Gasser is writing a book on the metaphysics of agent causation (in German, under contract with Mentis-Verlag) and he is thinking of writing another book on personal and a-personal concepts of God in the not too far future. He has co-edited a couple of volumes, including How Do We Survive Our Death? Personal Identity and Resurrection (Asghate 2010), Personal Identity: Complex or Simple? (Cambridge University Press 2012) and, more recently, with Eleonore Stump and Johannes Grössl a German translation of seminal English articles on divine foreknowledge and human freedom (Göttliches Vorherwissen und menschliche Freiheit. Beiträge aus der aktuellen analytischen Religionsphilosophie. Kohlhammer Verlag 2015). Gasser is deputy editor of the European Journal for Philosophy of Religion and editorial board member of TheoLogica, a new multilingual online-journal focused on philosophy of religion and systematic theology.

Research Assistant

Joshua Matthan Brown

Joshua Matthan Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham and the Assistant Chaplain to Eastern Christians at Cardiff University. Currently, his research interests include reviving and defending the eutaxiological argument for the existence of God and applying apophatic theology to contemporary problems in the philosophy of religion.