Michael C. Rea

{{short description|Analytic philosopher, professor of philosophy}}

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Michael Cannon Rea is an American analytic philosopher and, since 2017, John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy{{Cite web|url=https://philosophy.nd.edu/news/news/michael-rea-named-john-a-obrien-chair-of-philosophy/|title=Michael Rea named John A. O'Brien Chair of Philosophy // Department of Philosophy // University of Notre Dame|last=Dame|first=Marketing Communications: Web // University of Notre|website=Department of Philosophy|date=15 May 2017 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-16}} at the University of Notre Dame. He delivered the 2017 Gifford Lecture on divine hiddenness.{{Cite web|url=http://ndsmcobserver.com/2015/09/professors-begin-research-project-transformative-experiences/|title = Professors begin research project on transformative experiences // The Observer|date = 21 September 2015}}

Work

In World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism, Rea argues that naturalists are not justified in accepting either realism about material objects, or realism about other minds, or materialism.{{cite journal |first=Andrew |last=Melnyk |title=Review: World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism |journal=Mind |volume=113 |issue=451 |year=2004 |pages=575–581|doi=10.1093/mind/113.451.575 }}

Bibliography

  • World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Clarendon), 2002
  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (with Michael Murray). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Metaphysics: The Basics, London: Routledge (under contract)

= Edited books =

  • Material Constitution: A Reader. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. {{ISBN|978-0-8476-8384-0}}
  • Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, 5th edition (with Louis P. Pojman). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-495-09504-0}}
  • Critical Concepts in Philosophy: Metaphysics, 5 vols., London: Routledge, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-415-39751-3}}
  • Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology (with Thomas P. Flint). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-19-928920-2}}
  • Analytic Theology: New Essays in Theological Method (with Oliver D. Crisp). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-19-920356-7}}
  • Arguing About Metaphysics. New York: Routledge, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-415-95825-7}}
  • Philosophical and Theological Essays on the Trinity (with Thomas McCall), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-19-921621-5}}
  • Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology, 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-19-923746-3}}
  • Divine Evil? The Moral Character of the God of Abraham (with Michael Bergmann and Michael Murray). Oxford University Press, under contract. {{ISBN|978-0-19-957673-9}}

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