Michael C. Rea Explained

Michael Cannon Rea is an American analytic philosopher and, since 2017, John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy^[1] at the University of Notre Dame. He delivered the 2017 Gifford Lecture on divine hiddenness.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Michael Rea named John A. O'Brien Chair of Philosophy // Department of Philosophy // University of Notre Dame. Dame. Marketing Communications: Web // University of Notre. Department of Philosophy. 15 May 2017 . en-US. 2018-11-16.
2. Web site: Professors begin research project on transformative experiences // The Observer. 21 September 2015.
3. Andrew . Melnyk . Review: World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism . Mind . 113 . 451 . 2004 . 575–581. 10.1093/mind/113.451.575 .