教育: BA, 加州大学, 圣芭芭拉分校, 1999; MA, 富勒神学院, 2002; MA, 耶鲁大学, 2005; PhD, 罗格斯大学, 2012. 自2016年起在SPU工作.
Dr. 马修·本顿’s areas of expertise include Epistemology, 语言哲学, 宗教哲学, and Logic; his teaching is focused on each of these areas.
在来SPU之前, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in philosophy at the University of Oxford from 2012-2015 (as part of the New Insights and 方向 in Religious Epistemology 项目), and from 2015-2016 at the University of Notre Dame (as part of the Hope and Optimism: Conceptual and Empirical Investigations 项目).
His main research interests are in Epistemology (recently, 知识, 知道的人, 认识失败, 和fallibilism), as well as some allied areas in 语言哲学 (on assertion and related speech acts, 说谎, 假想的谓词, and testimony) and in 宗教哲学 (the epistemology of religion broadly construed, 以及邪恶的问题). He was recently awarded a research grant from the John Templeton Foundation on 知识与上帝. In 2020, he was given SPU’s Scholar of the Year Award.
书
Religious Disagreement and Pluralism
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022
编辑:Jonathan L. Kvanvig. Epistemological questions about the significance of disagreement have advanced in concert with broader developments in social epistemology concerning testimony, the nature of expertise and epistemic authority, 机构的作用, 集团的信念, and epistemic injustice (among others). 在此期间, related issues in the epistemology of religion have reemerged as worthy of new consideration, and available to be situated with new conceptual tools. This volume explores many of the issues at the intersection of the epistemology of disagreement and religious epistemology: in particular, how to think carefully about religious diversity and disagreement, balancing epistemic humility with personal conviction, the place of religious belief in our social lives, and how best to think about truths concerning religion.
知识、信仰和上帝: New Insights in Religious Epistemology
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018
Edited with John Hawthorne and Dani Rabinowitz. Recent decades have seen fertile theorizing within mainstream epistemology which has had a dramatic impact on how epistemology is done. Religion is the place where such rethinking can potentially have its deepest impact and importance. Yet there has been surprisingly little infiltration of these new ideas into philosophy of religion and the epistemology of religious belief. 知识、信仰和上帝 incorporates these new developments in mainstream epistemology, and extends these developments to questions and arguments in religious epistemology. The investigations proposed in this volume offer substantial new life, 宽度, and sophistication to issues in the philosophy of religion and analytic theology. (更多信息，请参见: Revitalizing the Epistemology of Religion 来自OUP博客.)
选定的出版物
“分歧与宗教,” in Religious Disagreement and Pluralism——马修·A. 本顿和乔纳森·L. Kvanvig, eds. Oxford University Press, 2022, 1-39.
“对冲断言” (with Peter van Elswyk), in The Oxford Handbook of Assertion桑福德·戈德堡，埃德. Oxford University Press, 2020, 245-263.
“Epistemological Aspects of Hope,” in The Moral Psychology of Hope, Claudia Blöser and Titus Stahl, eds. 罗曼 & 中国农业科学，2019,35- 41.
“Lying, Belief, and Knowledge,” in 《赌博十大靠谱软件》， Jörg Meibauer主编. Oxford University Press, 2019, 120-133.
“Religious 多样性 and Disagreement,” in The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology米兰达·弗里克等人., eds. 劳特利奇/泰勒 & 弗朗西斯，2019,185-195.
“God and Interpersonal Knowledge,” Res Philosophica 95 (2018): 421-447.
“Knowledge, Hope, and Fallibilism,” 综合 (2018，早期视图):1-17.
“Lying, Accuracy, and Credence,” 分析 78 (2018): 195-198.
“认识论个性化,” 哲学季刊 67 (2017): 813-834.
“Gricean质量,” 常识 50 (2016): 689-703.
“Expert Opinion and Second-Hand Knowledge,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 92 (2016): 492-508.
“邪恶与证据” (with John Hawthorne and Yoaav Isaacs), Oxford Studies in 宗教哲学 7 (2016): 1-31.
“失败主义打败了(马克斯·贝克-海奇) 哲学的角度 29 (2015): 40-66.
“Iffy Predictions and Proper Expectations(约翰·图里)， 综合 191 (2014): 1857-1866.
“知识规范,”Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2014).
“Assertion, Knowledge, and Predictions,” 分析 72 (2012): 102-105.
“Two More for the Knowledge Account of Assertion,” 分析 71 (2011): 684-687.
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