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Kevin Timpe: Kevin Timpe CV Kevin Timpe Department of Philosophy Email: [email protected] Calvin University Phone: 616.526.6410 Hiemenga Hall Fax: 616.526.8505 1845 Knollcrest Circle SE Homepage: www.kevintimpe.com Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 Areas of Specialization Free Will & Moral Responsibility Philosophy of Religion Philosophy of Disability Areas of Competence Virtue Ethics Contemporary Metaphysics History of Philosophy (especially Ancient and Medieval) Academic Positions Calvin University, William H. Jellema Chair in Christian Philosophy (2016-present) Calvin Theological Seminary, Visiting Faculty (2021, 2019, 2018) Northwest Nazarene University, Full Professor (2012-2016) Innsbruck University, Visiting Professor (summer 2014) Northwest Nazarene University, Associate Professor (2009-2012) Oxford University, Templeton Research Fellow, St. Peter’s College (2010-2011) Peking University, Visiting Professor (spring 2010) University of San Diego, Assistant Professor (2004-2009) University of Notre Dame, Center for Philosophy of Religion, Research Fellow (2003-2004) Education PhD in philosophy from Saint Louis University (2004) Research Books 11. The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction, with Craig Boyd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 10. The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives on Disability, Gender, Race, and Animals, edited with Blake Hereth. New York: Routledge, 2019. 9. Disability and Inclusive Communities. Grand Rapids: Calvin Press, 2018. Kevin Timpe 2 8. Routledge Companion to Free Will, edited with Meghan Griffith & Neil Levy. New York: Routledge, 2017. 7. Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns, edited with Daniel Speak. Oxford: Ox- ford University Press, 2016. 6. Virtues and Their Vices, edited with Craig Boyd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 5. Free Will in Philosophical Theology, Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 4. Free Will: Sourcehood and Its Alternatives, 2nd and expanded edition. London: Bloomsbury, 2012. 3. Metaphysics and God: Essays in Honor of Eleonore Stump. New York: Routledge, 2009. 2. Arguing about Religion. New York: Routledge, 2009. 1. Free Will: Sourcehood and Its Alternatives. London: Continuum, 2008. Articles 33. “Denying a Unified Concept of Disability,” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (forthcoming) 32. “Holding Close both the Wonder and the Wounds,” Journal of Disability & Religion (forthcoming) 31. “Sin in the Christian Tradition,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2021): online here. 30. “Agency and Neuroscience: A Conversation Between Philosophy and Psychology,” The Table, Biola University Center for Christian Thought (3 July 2019): online here. 29. “Critical Response to Van Slyke,” The Table, Biola University Center for Christian Thought (3 July 2019): online here. 28. “Broader Vision: Fully Embracing People with Disabilities in Christian Higher Education,” Perspectives May/June (2019), 6-9. 27. “Moral Ecology, Disabilities, and Human Agency” (2018 Wade Memorial Lecture) Res Philosophica 96.1 (2019), 17–41. 26. “‘Upright, Whole, and Free’—Eschatological Union with God,” TheoLogica 2.2 (2018), 1-16: online here. 25. “Disability and the Theodicy of Defeat” (with Aaron Cobb), Journal of Analytic Theology 5 (2017), 100- 120: online here. 24. “Freedom and the Incarnation” (with Timothy Pawl), Philosophy Compass 11.11 (2016), 743–756. 23. “Executive Function, Disability, and Agency,” Res Philosophica, special issue on “Philosophy of Disabil- ity,” 93.4 (2016): 767–796. 22. “An Argument for Limbo,” Journal of Ethics 19 (2015): 277–292. 21. “Free Will in Analytic Theology” (with Richard Tamburro), Rivista teologica di Lugano 3 (2015): 441–448. 20. “On Analytic Theology,” Scientia et Fides 3.2 (2015): 1-13. 19. “Cooperative Grace, Cooperative Agency,” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7.3 (2015): 225– 247. 18. “The Incarnation and Vicarious Agency,” Christian Psychology 7.2 (2013): 19–21. 17. “Heavenly Freedom: A Reply to Cowan” (with Timothy Pawl), Faith and Philosophy 30.2 (2013): 188– 197. Kevin Timpe 3 16. “Tracing and the Epistemic Condition on Moral Responsibility,” The Modern Schoolman 88.1/2 (2011): 5–28. 15. “An Analogical Approach to Divine Freedom,” Proceedings of the Irish Philosophical Society ed. Susan GottlÃűber (2012): 88–99. 14. “Free Will,” Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, ed. Duncan Pritchard (Oxford University Press, 2010): online here. 13. “Demotivating Semicompatibilism,” Ideas y Valores: Revista colombiana de filosofÃŋa ed. Carlos Patar- royo, 58.141 (2010): 109–124. 12. “Incompatibilism, Sin, and Free Will in Heaven” (with Timothy Pawl), Faith and Philosophy 26.4 (2009): 396–417. 11. “Causal History Matters, but not for Individuation,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 39.1 (2009): 77–91. 10. “Truthmaking and Divine Eternity,” Religious Studies 43.3 (2007): 299–315. 9. “Grace and Controlling what We Do Not Cause,” Faith and Philosophy 24.3 (2007): 284–299. 8. “Source Incompatibilism and its Alternatives,” American Philosophical Quarterly 44.2 (2007): 143–155. 7. “Moral Character,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007): online here. 6. “The Dialectic Role of the Flickers of Freedom,” Philosophical Studies 131.2 (2006): 337–368. 5. “A Critique of Frankfurt-Libertarianism,” Philosophia 34.2 (2006): 189–202. 4. “Free Will,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2006): online here. 3. “Prayers for the Past,” Religious Studies 41.3 (2005): 305–322. (Reprinted in Arguing about Religion (Rout- ledge: 2009)) 2. “Why Christians Might be Libertarians: A Reply to Lynne Rudder Baker,” Philosophia Christi 6.2 (2004): 89–98. 1. “Trumping Frankfurt: Why the Kane-Widerker Objection is Irrelevant” Philosophia Christi 5.2 (2003): 485–499. Book Chapters 28. “Free Will in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion,” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, ed. Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming). 27. “Emotion, Executive Dysfunction, and Agency: Can Emotional Disability Impair an Agent’s Likeli- hood of Virtue?” in Faith & Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy in Aid of Becoming Good, edited by Adam C. Pelser and W. Scott Cleveland (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). 26. “Defiant Afterlife—Disability and Uniting Ourselves to God,” in Voices from the Edge: Centering Marginal- ized Perspectives in Analytic Theology, ed. Michelle Panchuk and Michael Rea, Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology (Oxford University Press, 2020): 206–231. 25. “Plurality in Medieval Concepts of Disability,” in Disability in Medieval Christian Philosophy and Theol- ogy, ed. Scott Williams (Routledge, 2020): 25–48. 24. “Disabled Beatitude,” in The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives on Disability, Gender, Race, and Animals, ed. Blake Hereth and Kevin Timpe (Routledge, 2019): 241–263. 23. “Introduction” (with Blake Hereth), in The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives on Dis- ability, Gender, Race, and Animals, ed. Blake Hereth and Kevin Timpe (Routledge, 2019): 1–27. Kevin Timpe 4 22. “Christian Philosophy and Disability Advocacy,” Christian Philosophy: Conceptions, Continuations, and Challenges, ed. J. Aaron Simmons (Oxford University Press, 2018): 153–164. 21. “Public Policy and the Institutional Evil of Special Education,” The Palgrave Handbook on Philosophy and Public Policy, ed. David Boonin (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018): 249–262. 20. “Attitudinism, the Compatibility Question, and Ballung Concepts,” in Ted Honderich on Consciousness, Determinism, and Humanity, ed. Gregg Caruso (Springer, 2018): 181–194. 19. “Pride in Christian Philosophy and Theology” (with Neal Tognazzini), in The Moral Psychology of Pride, ed. J. Adam Carter and Emma C. Gordon (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017): 211–234. 18. “Paradise and Growing in Virtue” (with Timothy Pawl), in Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven, ed. Ryan Byerly and Eric Silverman (Oxford University Press, 2017): 97–109. 17. “Freedom as Sensitive to Reasons, Habits, and Character,” in Habits in Mind: Integrating Theology, Phi- losophy, and the Cognitive Science of Virtue, Emotion, and Character Formation, ed. Gregory Peterson (Brill, 2017): 196–212. 16. “The Best Thing in Life is Free: The Compatibility of Divine Freedom and God’s Essential Moral Per- fection,” in Free Will and Classical Theism: The Significance of Freedom in Perfect Being Theology, ed. Hugh McCann (Oxford Univ?ersity Press, 2016): 133–151. 15. “Leeway vs. Sourcehood Conceptions of Free Will,” in Routledge Companion to Free Will, ed. Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, & Neil Levy (Routledge, 2016): 213–224. 14. “Introduction to Free Will and Theism” (with Daniel Speak), in Free Will and Theism: Connections, Con- tingencies, and Concerns, ed. Kevin Timpe and Daniel Speak (Oxford University Press, 2016): 1–26. 13. “God’s Freedom, God’s Character’,’ in Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns, ed. Kevin Timpe and Daniel Speak (Oxford University Press, 2016): 277–293. 12. “Free Will and Naturalism: How to be a Libertarian and a Naturalist Too” (with Jon Jacobs), in The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism, ed. Kelly James Clark (Blackwell: 2015): 319–335. 11. “Free Will and the Stages of Theological Anthropology” (with Audra Jenson), in Ashgate Research Com- panion to Theological Anthropology, ed. Joshua Farris and Charles Taliaferro (Ashgate, 2015): 233–244. 10. “Trust, Silence, and Liturgical Acts,” in Skeptical Theism: New Essays, ed. Trent Dougherty and Justin McBrayer (Oxford University Press, 2014): 264–275. 9. “‘This is
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