
Members of Philosophy of Religion

Director
- Martin Pickup - Associate Professor in Philosophy
Members
- Nicholas Adams - Professor of Philosophical Theology
- David Cheetham - Professor of Philosophical Theology
- Nikk Effingham - Professor in Philosophy
- Marie-Hélène Gorisse - Dharmanath Assistant Professor in Jain Studies
- Sophia Vasalou - Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology
Associate members
William Paton Visiting Fellows
- Professor Chad Meister, Bethel College, USA (2015)
- Professor Dilipkumar Mohanta, University of Calcutta (2015)
- Dr Nick Trakakis, Australian Catholic University, Australia (2014)
- Dr Shalini Sinha, SOAS, University of London (2013)
- Dr Elena Kalmykova, University of Uppsala, Sweden (2013)
- Professor Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA (2013)
Doctoral researchers
Current
- Harold Barrett (The problem of impermanence)
- Andrew Blanton (Empirically informed solutions to the problem of divine hiddenness)
- Julio Bueno de Andrade (God and infinity)
- (Robert) Ian Davies (informational realism and the soul)
- Michael DeVito (foreknowledge and freedom)
- Connor Leak (The moral and rational implications for suicide through the lens of anti-natalism(s))
- Marshall Naylor (Maximal God)
- Shivanand Sharma (Bhedābheda Vedānta and the problem of consciousness)
- Iain Shaw (The problem of evil and practical theology)
- Jordan Steffaniak (conciliar Christology and the Philosophy of Mind)
- John Stickles (philosophy of religion and metaphysics)
- Jamie Turner (Ibn Taymiyya and the reformed theological tradition)
- Flora Wang (Religion and artificial intelligence)
Previous
- Han Jen Chang (The evidential problem of evil and skeptical theism)
- Randy Everist (Divine causation)
- Soufiane Hamri (Ontological and cosmological reasoning)
- Mohamad Hejab (Burhān argument for God’s existence)
- Kristi Mair (Religious epistemology)
- Ryan Maze (The ontological argument for the existence of God)
- Chase Montague (An apophatic approach to the problem of evil)
- Dre Rusavuk (Rationality, freedom and divine goodness)
- Kevin Vandergriff (The intrinsic probability of theism and naturalism)
- Ben Whittington (Free will and nonreductive physicalism)