I am an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. I work in epistemology, virtue theory, philosophy of religion, and the cognitive science of religion. I’m always down for a bit of armchair reflection, but I also do interdisciplinary work with the various human sciences.
Here’s my CV as of May 30, 2026. And here is a link to the dynamic bibliography on divine hiddenness that Dan Howard-Snyder and I are responsible for (This should see an update over the next several months).
Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.
(Whitehead…according to the internet)
Research
One of my interests is in religious experience and divine hiddenness. I wrote a series of articles advancing a shared attention model of religious experience (starting with this one). I edited a book on hiddenness, helped write the SEP entry on it, and I’m working on a monograph examining hiddenness from a science-informed big history sort of perspective right now.
I’m also interested in the human condition, and, in particular, with whether one needs to appeal to theological propositions to pick it out or just to interpret it. I have a book project on the back burner working on re-thinking, or at least re-contextualizing, various Christian doctrines that pertain to the human condition in light of what science has to say about our being a social species.
Within epistemology, I have defended a socially extended version of virtue reliabilism (e.g. here). More recently, I have turned to the way that prosocial attitudes (e.g. forgiveness and gratitude) have an epistemic dimension to them (e.g. in how one represents the other to oneself and others). Likewise, I have become interested in how distinctively epistemic applications of these prosocial attitudes relate to discussions of epistemic injustice, socio-political polarization, and the health of institutions with important epistemic social roles. Relatedly, I am developing an ethic of non-violence as applied to civil discourse and our life as knowers (c.f. my essay in this volume).
I am interested in in-group bias/ groupishness/ my side bias. In particular, I am interested in how one might integrate a cumulative culture model of the power of human reason and adaptability, an appreciation of the evolution of fictive kinship as a cultural tool, and our proclivity for thinking and doing very bad things along in-group/ out-group lines. This research promises to have important implications in the philosophy of religion (e.g. issues of pluralism and exclusivism), ethics (e.g. the ethics of partiality debate), epistemology ( e.g. higher-order social evidence), and the philosophy of mind (e.g. Van Leeuwen’s group-mediated make believe beliefs).
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