Publications

Book:

·         Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of Religion (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014).

 

Edited Book:

·         John Clayton, Religions, Reasons and Gods: Essays in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion, co-editor and contributor with Anne M. Blackburn (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 

 

Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals:

·         “Baldwin and Wittgenstein on White Supremacism and Religion,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion (forthcoming)

·         “‘Grasping the Difficulty in its Depth’: Wittgenstein and Globally Engaged Philosophy,” Sophia (2021) 60/1: 1-18.

·         “Moments of Reticence in the Analects and Wittgenstein,” Philosophy East and West (2020) 70/3: 679-698.

·         “Wittgenstein and the Xunzi on the Clarification of Language,” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy (2018) 17/4: 527-545.

·         “Wittgenstein and the Analects on the Ethics of Clarification,” Philosophy East and West (2016) 66/4: 1148-1167.

·         “The Problem of Relevance and the Future of Philosophy of Religion,” Metaphilosophy (2016) 47/1: 39-58.

·         “The Traditions of Fideism,” Religious Studies (2008) 44/1: 1-22.

 

Book Chapters:

·         “Wittgenstein, Naturalism, and Interpreting Religious Phenomena,” in Robert Vinten (ed.) Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion, Bloomsbury Publishers (forthcoming).

·         “Wittgenstein and Ascriptions of ‘Religion’,” in Gorazd Andrejč and Daniel Weiss (eds.) Interpreting Interreligious Relations with Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Brill Publishers (2019).

·         “Clarifying Conversations: Understanding Cultural Difference in Philosophical Education,” in Michael A. Peters, and Jeff Stickney, (eds.) A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education: Pedagogical Investigations, Springer (2017).

·         “The Debate over ‘Wittgensteinian Fideism’ and Phillips’ Contemplative Philosophy of Religion,” in Ingolf U. Dalferth, and Hartmut von Sass, (eds.), The Contemplative Spirit: D. Z. Phillips on Religion and the Limits of Philosophy, Mohr Siebeck (2010).

·         “Wittgenstein and Method in the Study of Religion,” Time, Memory, and Cultural Change, ed. S. Dempsey and D. Nichols, Vienna: IWM Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conferences, Vol. 25. (2009).

https://www.iwm.at/publications/5-junior-visiting-fellows-conferences/vol-xxv/wittgenstein-and-method-in-the-study-of-religion

·         “Evolutionary Psychology and the Epistemology of Religious Experience,” in Boeve, L., Geybels, H., and Van den Bossche, S., (eds.), Encountering Transcendence: Contributions to a Theology of Christian Religious Experience, Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishers (2005).

 

Book Reviews:

·        Mu Peng, Religion and Religious Practices in Rural China (New York: Routledge, 2019), Reading Religion, 2021. https://readingreligion.org/books/religion-and-religious-practices-rural-china

 

·        Miles Hollingworth. Ludwig Wittgenstein (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), Reading Religion, 2019. https://readingreligion.org/books/ludwig-wittgenstein

 

·        Book Review: A. W. Moore, Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant's Moral and Religious Philosophy, Heythrop Journal (2005) 46/4: 609-611