Michael Cannon Rea is an American

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and, since 2017, John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the

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. He delivered the 2017 Gifford Lecture on divine hiddenness.

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.

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

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and Michael Murray). Oxford University Press, under contract.

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rea, Michael C. 21st-century American philosophers American Christian writers Analytic philosophers Calvinist and Reformed philosophers Critics of atheism Living people Metaphysicians Philosophers of religion Presidents of the Society of Christian Philosophers University of Notre Dame faculty Year of birth missing (living people)