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Thomas M. Crisp

Associate Professor
  • Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
  • M.A., University Notre Dome
  • M.A., Biola University
  • B.S., University of California, Los Angeles

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Awards and Honors

  • Florida State University First Year Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2002.
  • Pew Younger Scholars Graduate Fellowship, 1997-2001.
  • Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, June 1993.
  • Elected to Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society, November 1990.

Publications

Articles

  • “On Believing that the Bible is Divinely Inspired”, in Analytic Theology: New Essays in Theological Method, eds. Michael C. Rea and Oliver D. Crisp (Oxford), forthcoming.
  • “Presentism, Eternalism and Relativity Physics”, in Einstein, Relativity, and Absolute Simultaneity, eds. William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith (Routledge), forthcoming.
  • “Presentism and Grounding”, NoÛs, forthcoming.
  • “‘Wholly Present” Defined” (with Donald P. Smith), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming.
  • “Knowledge and Reality: Essays Presented to Alvin Plantinga on his 70th Birthday” (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers), co-editor, forthcoming.
  • Review of “The Ontology of Time”, by L. Nathan Oaklander, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2005.
  • “Hawthorne on Knowledge and Practical Reasoning”, Analysis 65 (2005): 138-139.
  • “Presentism and Cross-Time Relations”, American Philosophical Quarterly 42 (2005): 5-17.
  • “On Presentism and Triviality”, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 1 (2004): 15-20.
  • “Reply to Ludlow”, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 1 (2004): 37-46. 2
  • “Presentism”, Chapter 8 of The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
  • Review of “Objects and Persons”, by Trenton Merricks, Philosophia Christi 5 (2003).
  • “Kim”s Master Argument: A Critical Notice of Jaegwon Kim”s Mind in a Physical World”, (with Ted A. Warfield) NoÛs 35 (2001): 304-316.
  • “Gettier and Plantinga”s Revised Account of Warrant”, Analysis 60 (2000): 42-50.
  • “The Irrelevance of Indeterministic Counterexamples to Principle Beta”, (with Ted A. Warfield) Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (2000): 173-184.
  • “On Divine Foreknowledge and Newcomb”s Paradox”, Philosophia Christi 1 (1999): 33-42.

Works In Progress

  • “The Case for Presentism”
  • “On Believing that the Bible is Divinely Inspired”
  • “On Lewis”s Bradleyan Regress”
  • “On Lewis”s Three Kings”
  • “Naming and Presentism”

Presentations

  • April 2005. Commentator on Ben Caplan and David Sanson, “The Way Things Were”, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association.
  • November 2004. “Recent Work in Metaphysics.” Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.
  • March 2004. Commentator on Dean Zimmerman, “Temporal Ontology and a Timeless Eternity”, Invited Symposium on Temporal Ontology and a Timeless Eternity, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association.
  • January 2004. “Remarks on Presentism.” University of California, Davis.
  • August 2003. Commentator at the Kline Workshop in Epistemology, University of Missouri, Columbia.
  • April 2003. Commentator on Michael Almeida, “Rowe’s Argument from Freedom”, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association.
  • March 2003. Commentator on Bruce Gordon, “Quantum Physics and Middle Knowledge”, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association.
  • August 2002. “Presentism, Grounding and Ersatz B-Series.” Metaphysical Mayhem VII, Syracuse University.
  • March 2002. “Presentism and Taking Tense Seriously”, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association.
  • February 2002. “Presentism: What is it? Why Believe it? And What About the Dreaded Grounding Objection?” Baylor University.
  • February 2002. “Gettier and Plantinga’s Revised Account of Warrant.” Calvin College.
  • February 2002. “Does Science Leave Room for Freedom of the Will?” University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.
  • February 2002. “Presentism: What is it? Why Believe it? And What About the Dreaded Grounding Objection?” Florida State University.
  • February 2002. “Some Comments on Presentism.” University of Missouri at Columbia.
  • Fall 1999. “Welcome Professor Kim”, The University of Notre Dame Philosophy Department Colloquium.
  • Spring 1997. “The Knowledge Argument and Propositional Knowledge”, Pacific Division Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers.

Research Interests

  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Religion