Education
Ph.D., August 2002, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame.
M.A., May 2000, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame.
M.A., May 1997, Philosophy, Biola University.
B.S., June 1992, Civil Engineering, UCLA.
Areas of Specialization Metaphysics, Epistemology.
Areas of Competence Philosophy of Religion.
Dissertation Title: In Defense of Presentism.
Director: Alvin Plantinga.
Employment
2008-. Associate Professor, Biola University.
2005-2008. Assistant Professor, Biola University.
2002-2005. Assistant Professor, Florida State University.
Publications
Articles
1. “On Divine Foreknowledge and Newcomb’s Paradox,” Philosophia Christi 1 (1999): 33-42.
2. "The Irrelevance of Indeterministic Counterexamples to Principle Beta," (with Ted A. Warfield) Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (2000): 173-184.
3. “Gettier and Plantinga’s Revised Account of Warrant,” Analysis 60 (2000): 42-50.
4. “Kim’s Master Argument” (with Ted A. Warfield), Noûs 35 (2001): 304-316.
5. “Presentism,” Chapter 8 of The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 211-245.
6. “Reply to Ludlow,” Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 1 (2004): 37-46.
7. “On Presentism and Triviality,” Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 1 (2004): 15-20; reprinted in Presentism: Essential Readings, eds., Nathan Oaklander and Ernâni Magalhães (Lexington), forthcoming.
8. “Presentism and Cross-Time Relations,” American Philosophical Quarterly 42 (2005): 5-17.
9. “Hawthorne on Knowledge and Practical Reasoning,” Analysis 65 (2005): 138-139.
10. “‘Wholly Present’ Defined” (with Donald P. Smith), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 71 (2005): 318-344..
11. “Presentism and Grounding,” Noûs 41 (2007): 90-109; reprinted in Critical Concepts in Metaphysics, ed. Michael C. Rea (Routledge, 2008) and in Presentism: Essential Readings, eds., Nathan Oaklander and Ernâni Magalhães (Lexington), forthcoming.
12. “Presentism, Eternalism and Relativity Physics,” in Einstein, Relativity, and Absolute Simultaneity, eds. William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith (Routledge, 2007).
13. “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).
14. “A Dilemma for Internalism?” Synthese, forthcoming.
Reviews
15. Review of Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous, by W. Jay Wood, International Journal of Systematic Theology 2 (2000).
16. Review of Objects and Persons, by Trenton Merricks, Philosophia Christi 5 (2003).
17. Review of The Ontology of Time, by L. Nathan Oaklander, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2005.
18. Review of Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers, by Kit Fine, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2006.
Book
19. Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006), co-edited with Matthew Davidson and David Vander Laan.
Work In Progress
Presentism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Time, a book length defense of presentism.
“An Evolutionary Objection to the Argument from Evil”
Presentations
“The Knowledge Argument and Propositional Knowledge.” Pacific Division Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Spring 1997.
“Welcome Professor Kim.” The University of Notre Dame Philosophy Department Colloquium, Fall 1999.
“Some Comments on Presentism.” University of Missouri at Columbia, February 2002.
“Presentism: What is it? Why Believe it? And What About the Dreaded Grounding Objection?” Florida State University, February 2002.
“Does Science Leave Room for Freedom of the Will?” University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, February 2002.
“Gettier and Plantinga’s Revised Account of Warrant.” Calvin College, February 2002.
“Presentism: What is it? Why Believe it? And What About the Dreaded Grounding Objection?” Baylor University, February 2002.
“Presentism and Taking Tense Seriously.” Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 2002.
“Presentism, Grounding and Ersatz B-Series.” Metaphysical Mayhem VII, Syracuse University, August 2002.
“Comments on Gordon.” Philosophy of Religion Group Meeting, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 2003.
“Comments on Almeida.” Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2003.
“Comments on Hawthorne, Stanley, McGrath and Fantl.” Kline Workshop in Epistemology, University of Missouri, Columbia, August 2003.
“Remarks on Presentism.” University of California at Davis, March 2004.
“Comments on Zimmerman.” Symposium on Temporal Ontology and a Timeless Eternity, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 2004.
“Recent Work in Metaphysics.” American Catholic Philosophical Association, November 2004.
“Comments on Caplan and Sanson.” Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2005.
“Comments on Paul and Parsons.” Symposium on Material Objects, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2006.
“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.
“Remarks on the Problem of Evil,” Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University, December 2007.
Arizona Ontology Conference, Participant, January 2008.
“Speaking Loosely about the Past.” University of Notre Dame, April 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.” California State University at San Bernardino, May 2008.
“Comments on White.” Philosophy of Religion Group Meeting, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2009.
“Presentism, Powers and Grounding.” Philosophy of Time Society Meeting, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 2009.
“On Believing that the Bible is Divinely Inspired.” Central Division Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, plenary speaker, April 2009.
Other Professional Activity
Referee: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosopher’s Imprint, The Monist, Philosophical Studies, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Journal of Philosophical Research, Faith and Philosophy, Grazer Philosophische Studien.
Member of the Editorial Board: Grazer Philosophische Studien.
Courses Taught
Introduction to Philosophy.
Introduction to Epistemology.
Introduction to Metaphysics.
Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion.
Introduction to Ethics.
Introduction to Symbolic Logic.
Graduate Seminar on Contextualism and the Lottery Puzzle.
Graduate Seminar in Metaphysics.
Upper Division Seminar in the Philosophy of Time.
Upper Division Seminar on the Problem of Evil.
Upper Division Seminar on David Lewis and Alvin Plantinga.
Honors and Grants
Biola University 7th Semester Leave Fellowship, Fall 2008.
Biola University Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Spring 2007.
Biola University Faculty Research Grant, Spring 2007.
Biola University Faculty Research Grant, Spring 2006.
Florida State University COFRS Summer Research Fellowship, 2005 (declined).
Florida State University First Year Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2002.
Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 2002 (declined).
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.