Michael C. Rea
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Michael Cannon Rea is an American
analytic philosopher Analytic philosophy is a broad movement within Western philosophy, especially English-speaking world, anglophone philosophy, focused on analysis as a philosophical method; clarity of prose; rigor in arguments; and making use of formal logic, mat ...
and, since 2017, John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac (known simply as Notre Dame; ; ND) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Cathol ...
. He delivered the 2017 Gifford Lecture on divine hiddenness.


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.


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. * ''Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology'', 5th edition (with Louis P. Pojman). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2007. * ''Critical Concepts in Philosophy: Metaphysics'', 5 vols., London: Routledge, 2008. * ''Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology'' (with Thomas P. Flint). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. * ''Analytic Theology: New Essays in Theological Method'' (with Oliver D. Crisp). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. * ''Arguing About Metaphysics''. New York: Routledge, 2009. * ''Philosophical and Theological Essays on the Trinity'' (with Thomas McCall), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. * ''Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology'', 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. * ''Divine Evil? The Moral Character of the God of Abraham'' (with Michael Bergmann and Michael Murray). Oxford University Press, under contract.


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Official website
21st-century American philosophers American Christian writers Analytic philosophers Calvinist and Reformed philosophers American critics of atheism Living people Metaphysicians Philosophers of religion Presidents of the Society of Christian Philosophers University of Notre Dame faculty Year of birth missing (living people) {{Christian-philosopher-stub