Publications

Monographs & Edited Volumes

With Marius Backmann (co-ed.), Pluralizing Philosophy's Past: New Reflections in the History of Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer)

Religious Experience (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), doi: 10.1017/9781108699952

With Dietrich Korsch (co-ed.), Interpreting Religion: The Impact of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Reden über die Religion for Religious Studies and Theology (Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2011)

The Irrational Project: Toward a Different Understanding of Self-Deception (Iowa Research Online, 2010), doi: 10.17077/etd.95kp27df                                 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Embryonic Afterlives? Soteriological Reflections on the Problem of Early Pregnancy Loss, TheoLogica (special issue on "Death and the Afterlife"; M. Sławkowski-Rode & D. Came, eds.); https://doi.org/10.14428/thl.v8i1.65873 

Doing Public Philosophy in the Middle Ages? On the Philosophical Potential of Medieval Devotional Texts, Res Philosophica 99(2): 241-74, 2022 (special issue on "Theological Dogma and Philosophical Innovation in Medieval Philosophy"; S. Brower-Toland, ed.); doi: 10.11612/resphil.2158

Rethinking Religious Epistemology: From Knowledge to Understanding, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 14(1): 21-47, 2022 (special issue on "The Future of Philosophy of Religion"; G. Oppy, ed.); doi: 10.24204/ejpr.2022.3290

Nowhere Men and Divine I’s: Feminist Epistemology, Perfect Being Theism, and the God’s-Eye View, Journal of Analytic Theology 9: 1-25, 2021(prize-winning essay); doi: 10.12978/jat.2021-9.001217061713

Therapeutic Theodicy? Suffering, Struggle, and the Shift from the God’s-Eye View, Religions 9(4), 2018: 99ff.; doi: 10.3390/rel9040099

'Signs for a People Who Reason': Religious Experience and Natural Theology, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 9(2), 2017: 139-63; doi: 10.24204/ejpr.v9i2.1937 

Sich in die eigene Tasche lügen? Selbsttäuschung als irrationales Projekt [Are You Kidding Yourself? Self-Deception as Irrational Project], PHILOKLES: Zeitschrift für populäre Philosophie 21: 4-23, 2017; https://philokles.org/2017/11/20/aktuelles-heft/ 

Why Jim Joyce Wasn’t Wrong: Baseball and the Euthyphro Dilemma, Journal of Philosophy of Sport 42(3), 2015: 327-48; doi: 10.1080/00948705.2015.1036874

(Ad-)ventures in Faith: A Critique of Bishop’s Doxastic-Venture Model, Religious Studies 51(4), 2015: 513-29; doi: 10.1017/S003441251400047X

Don’t Step on the Foul Line: On the (Ir)rationality of Superstition in Baseball, Logique et Analyse 56(223), 2013: 319-32

In Accordance with the Law: Reconciling Divine and Civil Law in Abelard, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81(2), 2007: 307-22, doi: 10.5840/acpq200781242

Book Chapters

[forthcoming] Via Transformativa: Reading Descartes’ Meditations as a Mystagogical Text (w/K.G. Phillips), in Transformation and the History of Philosophy. G.A. Bruno & J. Vlasits, eds. (Routledge)

Toward a Philosophical Theology of Pregnancy Loss, in Meanings of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss and Grief. M. Slawkowski-Rode, ed. (Lexington Press)

Are You There, God? It’s Me, the Theist: On the Viability and Virtue of Non-Doxastic Prayer, in Analyzing Prayer: Theological and Philosophical Essays. O. Crisp, J. Arcadi, & J. Wessling, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2022), 38-58

Medieval Christian and Islamic Mysticism and the Problem of a 'Mystical Ethics' (w/M.S. Zahedi), in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics. T. Williams, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 280-305 

Ich wird dich also an griffen / Das du mir nit mugist entwichen: Göttliche Aktivität, seelisches Leiden und die Rolle der Autonomie in Christus und die minnende Seele [Divine Activity, Spiritual Suffering, and the Role of Autonomy in Christ and the Loving Soul], in Handelt Gott in der Welt? Neue Ansätze aus Theologie und Religionsphilosophie. B. Göcke & R. Schneider, eds. (Pustet Verlag, 2017), 41-72

Religious Experience without Belief? Toward an Imaginative Account of Religious Engagement, in Religious Experience Revisited: Expressing the Inexpressible? T. Hardtke, U. Schmiedel, & T. Tan, eds. (Brill, 2016), 73-88

Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen '(Nicht-)Metaphysik' der Religion: (Anti-) Realismus, (Non-) Kognitivismus und die religiöse Imagination [Prolegomena to Any Future (Non-)Metaphysics of Religion: (Anti-) Realism, (Non-) Cognitivism, and the Religious Imagination], in Gott ohne Theismus. R. Gutschmidt & T. Rentsch, eds. (Mentis, 2016), 127-47

Regaining the 'Lost Self': A Philosophical Analysis of Survivor's Guilt, in Altered Self and Altered Self Experience. Alexander Gerner & Jorge Gonçalves, Hrsg. (Books on Demand, 2015), 43-57

Irrationality and 'Gut' Reasoning: Two Kinds of Truthiness, in The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy: More Moments of Zen, More Indecision Theory. Jason Holt, ed. (Wiley Blackwell), 309-25 [Original article: Truthiness, Self-Deception, and Intuitive Knowledge, in The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News. Jason Holt, ed. (Blackwell Publishing, 2007), 227-39]

Reference Articles

"Meister Eckhart" (2023) for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Thematic Entry (2017): "Religious Experience and Special Divine Action" for the Special Divine Action Project, hosted by Oxford University’s Bodleian Library and the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion (best viewed with IE/Firefox)

Reviews

Terence Cuneo, Ritualized Faith: Essays in the Philosophy of Liturgy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. In the European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10:2 (2018): 218-224, doi: 10.24204/ejpr.v10i2.2630                 

Kelly James Clark and Raymond J. VanArragon (eds.), Evidence and Religious Belief, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. In the European Journal of Philosophy 25:1 (2017): 178-84, doi: 10.1111/ejop.12204                  

John Sexton (with Thomas Oliphant and Peter J. Schwartz), Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game, New York: Gotham Books, 2013. In the Journal of Philosophy of Sport 41:2 (2014): 282-87, doi: 10.1080/00948705.2014.911103                  

Maria Cristina Amoretti and Nicla Vassallo (eds.), Reason and Rationality, Ontos Verlag, 2012. In The Notre Dame Philosophical Review (2013): http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/38042-reason-and-rationality/ 

Public Scholarship

For the "Religionsphilosophie" series at prae|faktisch: "Das Theodizeeproblem oder ein Problem mit der Theodizee? Was passiert mit klassischen Fragen, wenn wir die Religionsphilosophie neu denken?" 

For the "Logia" series at Blogos: "Undressing" Philosophical Theology: Lessons from Mechthild of Magdeburg  

For the "Philosophy Phridays" series at The Daily Ant: Asshoppers and Grants: Playing at Being Human?