Publications
Associate Professor (Teaching)
Philosophy of Religion, Comparative Philosophy, Wittgenstein, History of Analytic Philosophy, Ethics, and Philosophy of Race
Books:
Rethinking Philosophy of Religion with Wittgenstein: Religious Diversities and Racism (London: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2025). Forthcoming.
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:
“The Philosophical Investigations in Philosophy of Religion”. JoLMA: The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts (2024) 5, Special issue, 37-64. http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2024/03/003
“Baldwin and Wittgenstein on White Supremacism and Religion,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2023) 91/2: 346-363.
“‘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 (2023).
“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).
“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
