Curriculum Vitae
Thomas D. Carroll
Associate Professor (Teaching): Philosophy and Religious Studies
School of Humanities and Social Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
Contact me: thomascarroll [at]cuhk.edu.cn or thomasdcarroll [at]gmail.com
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND COMPETENCE
AOS: Comparative Ethics, History of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
AOC: Epistemology, History of Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Boston University, 2009
Dissertation: “Fideism and Wittgenstein's Ethic of Perspicuity”
Director: Juliet Floyd
M.A., San Francisco State University, 1999
B.A., Occidental College, 1992
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Fall 2016 to present
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), General Education Division
2022- Associate Professor (Teaching): Philosophy and Religious Studies
2018- Program Leader for Philosophy Minor
2016-2022 Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies
Summer 2016
Shanghai Jiao Tong University-University of Michigan Joint Institute, Instructor of Philosophy
Fall 2012-Spring 2016
Xing Wei College: Founding Faculty in Philosophy
Fall 2008-Spring 2012
Mount Ida College: Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
Fall 2002-Spring 2004, Fall 2005
Boston University: Graduate Writing Fellow, Instructor of Philosophy
See Teaching page for further details.
BOOK
Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of Religion (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014).
EDITED BOOK
John Clayton, Religions, Reasons and Gods: Essays in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion, co-editor and contributor with Anne M. Blackburn (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
ARTICLES
"Baldwin and Wittgenstein on White Supremacism and Religion," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 91/2, June 2023: 346-363.
“‘Grasping the Difficulty in its Depth’: Wittgenstein and Globally Engaged Philosophy,” Sophia, 60/1, March 2021: 1-18.
“Moments of Reticence in the Analects and Wittgenstein,” Philosophy East and West, July 2020, 70/3: 679-698.
“Wittgenstein and the Xunzi on the Clarification of Language,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, December 2018, 17/4, 527–545.
“Wittgenstein and the Analects on the Ethics of Clarification,” Philosophy East and West, October 2016, 66/4: 1148-1167.
“The Problem of Relevance and the Future of Philosophy of Religion,” Metaphilosophy, January 2016, 47/1: 39-58.
“The Traditions of Fideism,” Religious Studies, March 2008, 44/1: 1-22.
CHAPTERS
“Wittgenstein, Naturalism, and Interpreting Religious Phenomena,” in Robert Vinten (ed.) Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion, Bloomsbury Publishers, 2023.
“Wittgenstein and Ascriptions of ‘Religion’,” in Gorazd Andrejc and Daniel Weiss (eds.) Interpreting Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Brill Publishers, 2019.
“Clarifying Conversations: Understanding Cultural Difference in Philosophical Education,” in Michael A. Peters, and Jeff Stickney, (eds.) A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education: Pedagogical Investigations, Springer, 2017.
“The Debate over 'Wittgensteinian Fideism' and Phillips' Contemplative Philosophy of Religion,” in Ingolf U. Dalferth, and Hartmut von Sass, (eds.), The Contemplative Spirit: D. Z. Phillips on Religion and the Limits of Philosophy, Mohr Siebeck, 2010.
"Wittgenstein and Method in the Study of Religion," Time, Memory, and Cultural Change, ed. S. Dempsey and D. Nichols, Vienna: IWM Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conferences, Vol. 25., 2009.
“Evolutionary Psychology and the Epistemology of Religious Experience,” in Boeve, L.,Geybels, H., and Van den Bossche, S., (eds.), Encountering Transcendence: Contributions to a Theology of Christian Religious Experience, Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia, 53, Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishers, 2005.
SHORTER PUBLICATIONS
"Philosophy of Religion and Wittgenstein," Dialogue: A Journal of Religion and Philosophy, Issue 62, April 2024.
Book Review: Mu Peng, Religion and Religious Practices in Rural China (New York: Routledge, 2019), Reading Religion, 2021.
Book Review: Miles Hollingworth. Ludwig Wittgenstein (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), Reading Religion, 2019.
“Response to Brian R. Clack,” Sophia, September 2015, 54:3, pp. 381-383.
“Fideism,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, Vol. 8, De Gruyter, 2013.
Book Review: A. W. Moore. Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant’s Moral and Religious Philosophy (London and New York, Routledge, 2003), Heythrop Journal, 46/4: 609-611, 2005.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
"Chinese Religious Diversities and Philosophy of Religion," Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, San Francisco, Fall 2023.
“Wittgenstein and Baldwin on Racism and Culture,” Invited Lecture for the conference: Wittgenstein on Culture and Civilisation: Aesthetics, Ethics and Religion, Inštitut za Civilizacijo in Kulturo/Institute of Civilization and Culture (ICK), Ljubljana, Slovenia, Fall 2021 [held online via Zoom].
“Wittgenstein, Naturalism, and Interpreting Religious Phenomena,” Invited Lecture for the Second Wittgenstein and the Epistemology of Religious Belief (ERB Project) Workshop. Department of Philosophy, Nova University Lisbon, Portugal, Summer 2020 [held online via Zoom].
“Quasi-Fideism, Wittgenstein, and Religious Diversity,” Conference: China Wittgenstein Society: Texts and Interpretation. Northwest University, Xi’an, China, Fall 2019.
“The Concept of Belief in Comparative Religious Perspective,” Invited Lecture for the First Wittgenstein and the Epistemology of Religious Belief (ERB Project) Workshop. Department of Philosophy, Nova University Lisbon, Portugal, Summer 2019.
“Moments of Reticence in the Analects and Wittgenstein,” Invited Lecture for Philosophy Department at the University of Macau, Spring 2018.
“‘Grasping the Difficulty in its Depth’: Wittgenstein and Globally-Engaged Philosophy,” Creating a Philosophy for the Future, University of Macau, Fall 2017.
“Moments of Reticence in the Analects and Wittgenstein,” International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Singapore, Summer 2017.
“Wittgensteinian and Confucian Perspectives on the Ethics of Ritual Practice,” Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Beijing, Summer 2017.
“Wittgenstein and Xunzi on the Clarification of Language” International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Hong Kong, Summer 2015.
“Wittgenstein and Ascriptions of ‘Religion’” Wittgenstein and Interreligious Communication, Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK, Summer 2015.
