TIMOTHY J. PAWL Curriculum Vitae December 2017

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1 TIMOTHY J. PAWL Curriculum Vitae December 2017 University of St. Thomas, JRC 241 Office: JRC Summit Avenue Phone: (651) Saint Paul, MN Fax: (651) Webpage: timpawl [at] stthomas.edu Philpapers: ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Saint Thomas, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Saint Thomas, Visiting Assistant Professor through the Analytic Theology Residential Fellowship, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and the Center for Philosophy of Religion, at the University of Notre Dame, Dissertation Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame, Instructor, Saint Louis University, Research Assistant, Alvin Plantinga, Henle Research Assistant, Eleonore Stump, EDUCATION Ph.D., Philosophy, Saint Louis University, October 2008 Dissertation: A Thomistic Account of Truthmakers for Modal Truths Committee: Eleonore Stump (Chair), Scott Berman, and Joseph Salerno M.A., Philosophy, Saint Louis University, August 2007 Graduate coursework as a visiting student at the University of Notre Dame, Department of Philosophy, B.A., Philosophy and Theology, Magna Cum Laude, Valparaiso University, May 2003 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Analytic Metaphysics, Thomistic Philosophy (esp. Metaphysics), Philosophy of Religion, Analytic Theology AREAS OF COMPETENCE Medieval Philosophy PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS 3. In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology: A Philosophical Essay. (Under Review). 2. The Incarnation Cambridge Elements Series. Cambridge University Press (Under Contract). 1. In Defense of Conciliar Christology: A Philosophical Essay. Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology. Oxford University Press, PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (PEER-REVIEWED UNLESS NOTED) 1

2 25. Nine Problems (And Even More Solutions) for Powers Accounts of Possibility in Putting Powers to Work: Causal Powers in Contemporary Metaphysics (ed. Jonathan D. Jacobs, Oxford University Press, USA, 2017): Conciliar Christology and the Consistency of Divine Immutability with a Mutable, Incarnate God, Nova et Vetera, forthcoming. (invited for a symposium on immutability and incarnation; not peer-reviewed) 23. Paradise and Growing in Virtue (coauthored with Kevin Timpe) in Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven (eds. T Ryan Byerly and Eric Silverman, Oxford University Press, USA, 2017): Truthmaking and Christian Theology, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 89 (2016): (winner of the 2015 Young Scholar Award from the ACPA). doi: /acpaproc Free Will and Grace in The Routledge Companion to Free Will (eds. Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, Neil Levy, Routledge, USA, 2016): Freedom and the Incarnation (coauthored with Kevin Timpe), Philosophy Compass, 11 (2016): Temporary Intrinsics and Christological Predication, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion vol. 7 (ed. Jon Kvanvig, Oxford University Press, 2016): Christologically Inspired, Empirically Motivated Hylomorphism (coauthored with Mark K. Spencer), Res Philosophica, 93.1 (2016): Brian Hebblethwaite s Arguments Against Multiple Incarnations, Religious Studies 52:1 (2016): A Thomistic Truthmaker Principle, Acta Philosophica, 25:1 (2016): (invited and peer-reviewed). 15. Thomistic Multiple Incarnations, The Heythrop Journal 57.2 (2016): Conciliar Christology and the Problem of Incompatible Predications, Scientia et Fides, 3.2 (2015): (invited and peer-reviewed) Change, Difference, and Orthodox Truthmaker Theory, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92.3 (2014): A Solution to the Fundamental Philosophical Problem of Christology, The Journal of Analytic Theology, 2 (2014): a/ The Freedom of Christ and The Problem of Deliberation, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 75.3 (2014): DOI /s The Freedom of Christ and Explanatory Priority, Religious Studies, 50.2 (2014): DOI: /S Stone's Evidential Atheism: A Critique, Faith and Philosophy, 30.3 (2013): Heavenly Freedom: A Response to Cowan (coauthored with Kevin Timpe), Faith and Philosophy 30.2 (2013): The Five Ways in The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas (ed. Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump, Oxford University Press, USA, 2012): Traditional Christian Theism and Truthmaker Maximalism, The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4.1 (2012): Transubstantiation, Tropes and Truthmakers, The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86.1 (2012):

3 4. The Five Ways in Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy (ed. Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011): The Possibility Principle and the Truthmakers for Modal Truths, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88.3 (2010): Incompatibilism, Sin, and Free Will in Heaven (coauthored with Kevin Timpe), Faith and Philosophy 26.4 (2009): St. Thomas Aquinas on Blameworthiness and the Virtue of Faith, Journal of Postgraduates in Wuhan University 21.4 (2005): (invited). PUBLICATIONS: ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES 2. Divine Immutability, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [ ] 1. St. Thomas Aquinas The Literary Encyclopedia [ ] PUBLICATIONS: REVIEWS AND BOOKNOTES 10. John A. Keller, ed., Being, Freedom, & Method: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter van Inwagen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, The Review of Metaphysics, forthcoming. [booknote] 9. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. s The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology. The Catholic University of America Press The Journal of Analytic Theology, forthcoming. 8. Jeffrey Brower s Aquinas s Ontology of the Material World: Change, Hylomorphism, & Material Objects. Oxford: Oxford University Press, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 89:4 (2015): Paul M Gould, ed., Beyond the Control of God?: Six Views on the Problem of God and Abstract Objects, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014; Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 93:3 (2015): [booknote] 6. James E. Dolezal s God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God s Absoluteness, Pickwick Publications, 2011; Faith and Philosophy, 30.3 (2013): Lukáš Novák, Daniel D. Novotný, Prokop Sousedík, and David Svoboda (eds.) Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic, Ontos Verlag, 2012; Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Paul Weingartner s God s Existence: Can it be Proven? A Logical Commentary on the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas, Ontos Verlag, 2010; The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 3:1 (2011): Mark Ian Thomas Robson s Ontology and Providence in Creation: Taking Ex Nihilo Seriously, Continuum, 2008; Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Peter van Inwagen s The Problem of Evil (O.U.P, 2006), in Religious Studies Review 36.1 (2010): [booknote] 1. Christian Moevs The Metaphysics of Dante s Comedy (O.U.P., 2005), in Religious Studies Review 32.2 (2006): 115. [booknote] POPULAR AUDIENCE, INTERVIEWS, ETC. 3

4 13. Conversation with Robert Lawrence Kuhn on the PBS show, Closer to Truth. Forthcoming. 12. Responding to the New Atheism: Doing as Thomas Does, Proceedings from the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Convention, forthcoming. 11. Dr. Timothy Pawl s Defense of Conciliar Christology, Part 2, Trinities Podcast, Interview with Dale Tuggy, June Dr. Timothy Pawl s Defense of Conciliar Christology, Part 1, Trinities Podcast, Interview with Dale Tuggy, June Why Analytic Theology? Analytic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Blog post, May What Do I Do? Analytic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Blog post, May The Godman Resurrected: A Philosophical Problem for the Incarnation, Oxford University Press Blog, March Making Sense of the Incarnation: A Conversation with Timothy Pawl podcast interview with Randal Rauser, Feb Where Philosophy and Theology Intersect St. Thomas Newsroom. A brief article on my research, June Metaphysics for Understanding Theology Center for Philosophy of Religion Newsletter, [A brief article on a research project of mine: a primer on the metaphysics one has to understand in order to understand confessional statements of Christian Doctrine.] 3. Why Study Philosophy of Religion? Video from the Center for Philosophy of Religion (Notre Dame), August Is God Becoming Man Logically Impossible? Video from the Center for Philosophy of Religion (Notre Dame), August Freedom in Heaven Filozofuj [an open-access philosophy journal for Polish highschool students], forthcoming. PRESENTATIONS: PAPERS 37. [forthcoming] The Metaphysics of the Incarnation. Incarnation: Confirmation or Transformation of Classical Theism?, University of Augsburg. Augsburg, Germany, June, [forthcoming] TBD. Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, April [forthcoming] A Doctrine of Divine Simplicity. Henle Conference, Saint Louis University. St. Louis, MO, March Divine Simplicity in Thomism and Analytic Theology. American Catholic Philosophical Association. Dallas, TX, November Personites, Prudential Reasoning, and the Veil of Ignorance. Brackenridge Philosophy Symposium, San Antonio, TX, October The Consciousness(es) of Christ. 2 nd Triennial Dominican Colloquium, Dominican School for Philosophy and Theology. Berkeley, CA, July The Impeccability of Christ. The Joseph Butler Society. Oxford University, May Christ and the Interim State. Cambridge University, May In Defense of Conciliar Christology Interdisciplinary Book Colloquium. University of St. Thomas. St. Paul, MN, February Responding to the New Atheism: Doing as Thomas Does. Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. Washington, D.C., September

5 27. Sin, Impeccability, and Temptation Logos Workshop, Notre Dame. South Bend, IN, May Is the Incarnation of God Impossible? Pepperdine College. Malibu, CA, April Is the Incarnation of God Impossible? Wheaton College. Wheaton, IL, March Transubstantiation and Philosophy. Evangelical Theological Society (ETS). Atlanta, GA, November Truthmaking and Christian Theology. American Catholic Philosophical Association. Boston, MA, October Winner of the ACPA Young Scholar Award. 22. Christ and the Interim State. Exploring the Interim State Writing Workshop. McCall, ID, July, The Philosophy and Theology of the Interim State. Immortality Project Capstone Conference (with Kevin Timpe). California State, Riverside. Riverside, California, May Paradise and Growing in Virtue. The Philosophy of Paradise Essay Contest Winner (with Kevin Timpe). Christopher Newport University. Newport News, Virginia, April The Philosophical Coherence of Conciliar Christology. A weeklong seminar (12 hours) at the Dominican House of Studies, Krakow, Poland, June A Philosophical Problem for Christology. Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University. Warsaw, Poland, June Change, Difference, and Orthodox Truthmaker Theory. Minnesota Philosophical Society Meeting. St. Paul, MN, October Conciliar Christology: A Metaphysical Model. Wake Forest Hylemorphism Workshop. Winston-Salem, NC, June Temporary Intrinsics and Christological Predication Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion Discussion Group. South Bend, IN, April A Second Problem of Foreknowledge and Freedom: Aquinas on Christ s Human Knowledge. Unum, Verum, Bonum. Lisbon, Portugal, April Conciliar Christology and the Problem of Incompatible Predications. The Eighth Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference at Baylor University, Waco, TX, March Conciliar Christology and the Problem of Incompatible Predications. First Annual LA Theology Conference, Los Angeles, CA, January Conciliar Christology and the Problem of Incompatible Predications. Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion Discussion Group. South Bend, IN, November, The Freedom of Christ. Writing Retreat and Workshop on Divine Freedom, Tallahassee, FL, March A Problem (and Solution) for Powers Accounts of Possibility. Putting Powers To Work Conference Workshop, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, April Another Problem of Foreknowledge and Freedom: Aquinas on the Knowledge of Christ s Human Soul. The Metaphysics of Aquinas and its Modern Interpreters: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives, Fordham University, New York, NY, March, Transubstantiation and Truthmakers. American Catholic Philosophical Association, New Orleans, LA, November,

6 6. Prayer to an Immutable God. Departmental Colloquium, University of St Thomas, St. Paul, MN, March, A Critique of Armstrong s Possibility Principle. Central States Philosophy Association Conference, St. Paul, MN, September, A Thomistic Account of Truthmakers for Modal Truths. University of Saint Thomas, St. Paul, MN, February, The Pairing Problem: An Analysis and a Dualistic Response. Saint Louis University Graduate Student Conference, Saint Louis University, MO, October, Aquinas on Blame for Lacking Faith. Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, February, Heavens No; Don t Take My Freedom: Incompatibilism, Sin, and Free Will in Heaven. Co-authored with Kevin Timpe. Society of Christian Philosophers Western Regional Meeting, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA, February, (Presented by Kevin Timpe). PRESENTATIONS: COMMENTS 7. Comments on Accidental Forms as Metaphysical Parts of Material Substances in Aquinas's Ontology' by Jeremy Skrzypek. Central American Philosophical Association Meeting, Kansas City, MO, March Comments on Causation, Time, and God s Omniscience by Richard Swinburne. Response to a paper by Richard Swinburne at the Randomness and Foreknowledge Conference, Dallas, TX, October Comments on The Divided Brain and the Spiritual Sense of Scripture by Andrew Pinsent. Response to a paper by Fr. Andrew Pinsent at the LOGOS workshop on Divine Revelation, Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, June Comments on Powerful Perdurance: Linking Parts with Powers. Response to a paper by Neil Williams at Putting Powers to Work, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, April Comments on Substance and Personal Identity. Response to a paper by Alexander Pruss at the American Catholic Philosophical Association, New Orleans, LA, November, Salvation and Indirect Doxastic Voluntarism. Response to a paper of Josh Heter s at the 2006 Saint Louis Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, September, Three Remarks Concerning Moral Responsibility and Transfer Principles. Response to a paper of Andrew M. Bailey s at The Society of Christian Philosophers. Western Regional Meeting, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, February, 2006 GRANTS Principal Investigator, Christian Moral Wisdom and Contemporary Psychology. Award from the John Templeton Foundation. Amount: $217,240. Funding Period: Academic Years , , and Curriculum Development Award from Fuller Theological Seminary s Analytic Theology for Theological Formation grant, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Distinguished Early Career Grant from the University of St. Thomas. Half teaching load for research, academic years ;

7 Principal Investigator (along with Dr. Gloria Frost), "Perennial Conceptions of the Divine: An Analytical Investigation." Award from the John Templeton Foundation. Amount: $198,358. Funding Period: January 2015 to August 31, Principal Investigator (along with Dr. Kevin Timpe), "Exploring the Interim State." Award from Immortality Project at UC-Riverside: Amount: $41,059. Funding Period: October 2014 to August Environmental Stewardship Curriculum Grant, University of St. Thomas, Analytic Theology Cluster Group Grant Recipient (with Mark McInroy), sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, Spring Teaching Enhancement Grant, University of St. Thomas, Research Grant Recipient, University of St. Thomas, Aquinas Chair Grant Recipient, University of St. Thomas, Faculty Partnership Grant Recipient (with William Cavanaugh), University of St. Thomas, Spring Aquinas Chair Grant Recipient, University of St. Thomas, AWARDS AND HONORS Young Scholar Award, American Catholic Philosophical Association, The Philosophy of Paradise Essay Contest Winner (with Kevin Timpe) for Paradise and Growing in Virtue. Analytic Theology Summer Stipend Recipient, sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame: Summers 2012, 2013, and Analytic Theology Residential Fellowship, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, Publication Incentive Award, St. Thomas Summer Seminars in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology (sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation) for: (i) The Five Ways in The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas (ed. Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump, Oxford University Press, USA, 2012): (ii) Traditional Christian Theism and Truthmaker Maximalism, The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4.1 (2012): (iii) Transubstantiation, Tropes and Truthmakers. The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86.1 (2012): (iv) Heavenly Freedom: A Response to Cowan (coauthored with Kevin Timpe), Faith and Philosophy 30.2 (2013): (v) Stone's Evidential Atheism: A Critique, Faith and Philosophy, 30.3 (2013): (vi) The Freedom of Christ and Explanatory Priority, Religious Studies, forthcoming. (vii) A Solution to the Fundamental Philosophical Problem of Christology, The Journal of Analytic Theology, forthcoming. (viii) Temporary Intrinsics and Christological Predication, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, forthcoming. 7

8 Presentation Incentive Award, St. Thomas Summer Seminars in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology (sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation) for: (i) The Freedom of Christ. (ii)-(iii) Another Problem of Foreknowledge and Freedom: Aquinas on the Knowledge of Christ s Human Soul (iv)-(v) Conciliar Christology and the Problem of Incompatible Predications (vi) Conciliar Christology: A Metaphysical Model. (vii) A Philosophical Problem for Christology. Alpha Sigma Nu (The National Jesuit Honor Society), Member, Saint Louis University, Pass with Distinction, Saint Louis University doctoral oral comprehensive examination, Department of Philosophy, December, Phi Beta Kappa (Academic Honor Society), Member, Saint Louis University, James Collins Memorial Scholarship for excellence in graduate studies in philosophy, Saint Louis University, Fellowship from Saint Louis University to study at the University of Notre Dame s Department of Philosophy through the Midwest Consortium of Catholic Graduate Schools Inter University Visitation Program, Phi Sigma Tau, Valparaiso University, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Workshop Organizer (along with Kevin Timpe), Exploring the Interim State, sponsored by the Immortality Project. McCall, ID, July, Leader (along with Mark McInroy), Analytic Theology Cluster Group Grant, sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, Spring Participant, Logos Philosophical Theology Workshop, The Center for Philosophy of Religion (Notre Dame), Notre Dame, each May, (2010 meeting held at Rutgers; 2017 meeting held at St. Andrews, Scotland). Chair: 2009, 2010, 2015, Commentator: Speaker: Participant, Wake Forest Hylemorphism Workshop. Winston-Salem, NC, June Participant, Writing Retreat and Workshop on Divine Freedom, Tallahassee, FL, March Participant, St. Thomas Summer Seminars in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, University of St. Thomas (MN): June 15- July 2, 2010 and June 13- July 1, Participant, Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics in the Thomistic and Analytic Traditions. A weeklong seminar sponsored by the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton University. August, Participant, Calvin College Seminars in Christian Scholarship, CCCU Disciplinary Workshop on Philosophy: What Does it Mean to Be a Christian Philosopher Today? July, Member, The American Catholic Philosophical Association Member, The American Philosophical Association Member, Society for Catholicism and Analytical Philosophy Member, The Society of Christian Philosophers Member, The Society for Medieval Logic & Metaphysics 8

9 SERVICE: PROFESSION-WIDE Editorial Committee, TheoLogica, Member, Executive Committee, Society of Christian Philosophers (2014-) Organizer, Society of Christian Philosophers Satellite Sessions, American Catholic Philosophical Association ( ) Committee Member, Society of Christian Philosophers Satellite Sessions, American Philosophical Association, Central Division ( ) Assistant Editor, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly ( ). Committee Member, Midwest Annual Workshop in Metaphysics (MAWM), Member, Society of Christian Philosophers Committee for Outreach to Central and Eastern Europe, Article Referee: American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Bloomsbury, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, Faith & Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, The Journal of Analytic Theology, Mind, Modern Theology, Nova et Vetera, Oxford Bibliographies, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophia, The Philosophical Quarterly, Polish Journal of Philosophy, Religious Studies, Res Philosophica, Sophia, TheoLogica, The Thomist. Book Manuscript Referee: Bloomsbury Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge Press. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Philosophy 365: Natural Philosophy and Metaphysics, University of St. Thomas (x14) Philosophy 214: Introductory Ethics, University of St. Thomas (x8) Philosophy 115: The Philosophy of the Human Person, University of St. Thomas (x11) Philosophy 250: Christian Mysteries from a Philosophical Perspective (x1) (Cross-listed with Catholic Studies) Philosophy 105: Historical Introduction to Philosophy, Saint Louis University (x3) GRADUATE COURSEWORK IN PHILOSOPHY (* indicates course audited) Contemporary Philosophy Metaphysics Contemporary Metaphysics Physicalism and Dualist Alternatives Epistemology Experimental Knowledge Advanced Logic (Peter van Inwagen) (Alicia Finch) (Jaegwon Kim) (Joe Salerno) (Kent Staley) (Joe Salerno) Philosophy of Religion Christian Theism and Philosophy (Alvin Plantinga) Religion & Science: Conflict or Concord?* (Alvin Plantinga) The Problem of Evil (Eleonore Stump) The Existence of God (Richard Swinburne) History of Philosophy Plato and Metaphysics (Scott Berman) Aristotle s Metaphysics* (Michael Loux) Aristotle s Metaphysics (Monte Johnson) 9

10 Augustine s City of God Aquinas s Metaphysics Aquinas s Ethics Aquinas on Truth* Medieval/Early Modern Skepticism Kant s First Critique (Jack Marler) (Eleonore Stump) (Colleen McCluskey) (John O Callaghan) (Dominic Perler) (William Charron) REFERENCES Name School Address Hud Hudson Western Washington U. wwu.edu Sandra Menssen U. of St. Thomas sthomas.edu Michael Rea Notre Dame nd.edu Eleonore Stump Saint Louis University slu.edu Alan Torrance St. Andrews st-andrews.ac.uk 10