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Thomas M Crisp

  • Associate Professor of Philosophy
  • Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
  • M.A., Biola University
  • M.A., University Notre Dome
  • B.S., University of California, Los Angeles

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Note: This profile contains a sample of this professor's recent work. For a complete list of publications, presentations, etc., see the CV, above.

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Awards and Honors

  • Florida State University First Year Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2002.
  • Pew Younger Scholars Graduate Fellowship, 1997-2001.
  • Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, June 1993.
  • Elected to Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society, November 1990.

Publications

Articles

  • “An Evolutionary Objection to the Argument from Evil”, in Evidence and Religious Belief, eds. Kelly James Clark and Raymond Van Arragon (Oxford: forthcoming).
  • “A Dilemma for Internalism?” Synthese, forthcoming.
  • “On Believing that the Bible is Divinely Inspired”, in Analytic Theology: New Essays in Theological Method, eds. Michael C. Rea and Oliver D. Crisp (Oxford, 2009).
  • “Presentism, Eternalism and Relativity Physics”, in Einstein, Relativity, and Absolute Simultaneity, eds. William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith (Routledge, 2007).
  • “Presentism and Grounding”, Noûs, 41 (2007): 90-109. Reprinted in Critical Concepts in Metaphysics, ed. Michael C. Rea (Routledge, 2008). Reprinted in Presentism: Essential Readings, eds., Nathan Oaklander and Ernâni Magalhães (Rowman & Littlefield), forthcoming.
  • “‘Wholly Present” Defined” (with Donald P. Smith), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming.
  • “Hawthorne on Knowledge and Practical Reasoning”, Analysis 65 (2005): 138-139.
  • “Presentism and Cross-Time Relations”, American Philosophical Quarterly 42 (2005): 5-17.
  • “On Presentism and Triviality”, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 1 (2004): 15-20.
  • “Reply to Ludlow”, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 1 (2004): 37-46. 2

Books

  • “Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga” (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006), co-edited with Matthew Davidson and David Vander Laan.

In Progress

  • “Presentism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Time”, a book-length defense of presentism.

Reviews

  • Review of “Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers”, by Kit Fine, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2006.
  • Review of “The Ontology of Time”, by L. Nathan Oaklander, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2005.
  • Review of “Objects and Persons”, by Trenton Merricks, Philosophia Christi 5 (2003).
  • Review of “Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous”, by W. Jay Wood, International Journal of Systematic Theology 2 (2000).

Presentations

  • “On Philosophical Arguments for Atheism.” Universities of Qom and Iman Sadeq (Terhan), April 2010.
  • “On Believing that the Bible is Divinely Inspired.” Central Division Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, plenary speaker, April 2009.
  • “Presentism, Powers and Grounding.” Philosophy of Time Society Meeting, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2009.
  • “Comments on White.” Philosophy of Religion Group Meeting, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2009.
  • “Speaking Loosely about the Past.” California State University at San Bernardino, May 2008.
  • “Speaking Loosely about the Past.” Talbot Philosophy Conference, Biola University, plenary speaker, April 2008.
  • “Remarks on the Problem of Evil.” Santa Barbara City College, May 2008
  • “Speaking Loosely about the Past.” University of Notre Dame, April 2008.
  • “Remarks on the Problem of Evil,” Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University, December 2007. Arizona Ontology Conference, Participant, January 2008.
  • “On Believing that the Bible is Divinely Inspired.” Philosophy of Religion Group Meeting, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2006. Arizona Ontology Conference, Participant, January 2007.

Research Interests

  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Religion