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Joseph Jedwab

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Kutztown University, Dept of Philosophy,

   De Francesco Bldg, Rm 203,  Kutztown, PA 19530,USA         

Office Phone: 610-683-4767                             E-mail: jedwab@kutztown.edu                                                                                                           

 

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics

Areas of Competence:   Epistemology, Medieval Philosophy, Modern Philosophy

       Philosophy of Mind, Symbolic Logic, Religious Studies

 

Education:

  • University of Oxford, DPhil in Philosophical Theology (Pass)                    1998-2008

Dissertation Title: The Metaphysics of the Trinity and Incarnation

Dissertation Supervisor: R. Swinburne, Examiners: B. Leftow, H. Robinson

 

  • University of Oxford, MPhil in Philosophical Theology (Pass)                   1996-1998

Dissertation Title: Three Persons and One Substance

Papers: History of Philosophical Theology, Metaphysics and Theory of Knowledge

Philosophy of Religion

Dissertation Supervisor: R. Swinburne, Examiners: K. Ward, R. Cross, J. Day

 

  • King’s College London, BA in Philosophy and Theology (First Class)          1992-1995

Philosophy Papers: Ancient Philosophy, Modern Philosophy,

Logic and Metaphysics, Epistemology and Methodology, Philosophy of Religion

Theology Papers: Making of Christian Theology, New Testament Greek

Doctrine of God and the Person of Christ, God and Action, Doctrine of Creation

 

Academic Employment:

Ÿ         Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania       08/09-         

Ÿ         Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame                                        08/09

Ÿ         On-Line Tutor in Philosophy, Oxford Department Continuing Education        04/05-07/08

Ÿ         Lecturership in Philosophy of Religion, University of Reading                      05/06-07/08

Ÿ         Lecturership in Philosophy, Worcester College, Oxford                              00/01-03/04

Ÿ         Secretary of The Joseph Butler Society for Philosophy of Religion               97/98-07/08

 

Academic Teaching:

  • Seminars and Tutorials in Modern Philosophy 95/96

(King’s College London)

  • Classes and Revision Classes in Elementary Logic 98/99-07/08

(Oriel College, Worcester College, St Benet’s Hall, Greyfriars Hall, University College)

  • Tutorials and Revision Classes in Descartes’ Meditations and Introductory Epistemology and Metaphysics 00/01-05/06

(Worcester College, St Benet’s Hall, Blackfriars)

  • Tutorials and Finals Revision Classes in Modern Philosophy 00/01-04/05

(Worcester College, St Benet’s Hall)

  • Tutorials and Finals Revision Classes in Epistemology and Metaphysics 00/01-05/06

(Worcester College, St Benet’s Hall, Wycliffe Hall)

  • Tutorials and Finals Revision Classes in Philosophy of Religion 97/98-07/08

(Oriel College, Regent’s Park College, Worcester College, Wycliffe Hall)

  • Finals Revision Seminar in Modern Philosophy, Epistemology and Metaphysics, and Ethics 00/01-01/02

(Worcester College)

  • College Lectures in Elementary Logic 01/02

(Oriel College)

  • College Lectures in Introduction to Philosophy 04/05

(Wycliffe Hall)

  • University Lectures in Philosophy of Religion 05/06-07/08

(University of Reading)

  • On-line Tutorials in Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, and

     Philosophy of Mind 04/05-07/08

(Oxford University Department of Continuing Education)

  • Critical Thinking, Symbolic Logic, and Philosophy of Religion 09

(Kutztown University)

 

Work in Progress: The Metaphysics of the Trinity and Incarnation (book), under consideration with Oxford University Press; ‘Against Christological Concretism’ and ‘Constitution Theories of the Trinity’ (papers).

 

Scholarships: British Academy Studentships 96/97-97/98, 98/99-99/00

                      Oriel College, Oxford University, Graduate Scholarship 98/99-99/00

 

Prizes:  Sherrard prize in the Philosophy of Religion 94/95

   Oriel College travel grant 99/00

   Graduate studies committee travel grant 99/00

 

Book Review: ‘Phil Dowe, Galileo, Darwin, and Hawking: The Interplay of  

                        Science, Reason, and Religion,’ Faith and Philosophy 24.3 (2007): 350-3.

 

Papers presented:

·    ‘A Simple Theory of a Composite God’

The Joseph Butler Society 97

Whitefield Institute Research Grantee Seminar 97

King’s College London Philosophy of Religion Graduate Seminar 98

Tyndale Philosophy of Religion Conference 99

·    ‘The Co-consciousness Theory of the Trinity’

Oxford Modern Doctrine Graduate Seminar 99

·    ‘The Moral Goodness of God’

Tyndale Philosophy of Religion Conference 99

Gifford Bequest Philosophy of Religion Conference 00

·    ‘“Omnipotence” Defined’

University of London Philosophy Graduate Conference 00

·    ‘The Metaphysics of the Incarnation’

King’s College London Philosophy of Religion Graduate Seminar 00

·    ‘A Priori Arguments for the Trinity: Anselm and Richard of St Victor’

The Tyndale Lecture of 2001, Tyndale Philosophy of Religion Conference 01

·    ‘Divine Omnipresence’

Tyndale Philosophy of Religion Conference 05

·    ‘A Lockean Theory of the Trinity and Incarnation’

Kutztown University Philosophy Society 08

·    ‘Against Concretism in the Incarnation’

     King’s College London Philosophical Theology Seminar 08

The Joseph Butler Society 08

·    ‘The Trinity and Consciousness’

     Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame 08

·    ‘The Incarnation and Consciousness’

     Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame 08

 

Referee Work: For Ratio and Mind

 

Professional Organizations:

 

Ÿ         Member, American Philosophical Association

Ÿ         Member, Canadian Philosophical Association

Ÿ         Member, Society of Christian Philosophers

Ÿ         Member, Canadian Society of Christian Philosophers

Ÿ         Member, British Society of the Philosophy of Religion

 

References:

 


 

Professor Richard Swinburne          

Oriel College, University of Oxford

OXFORD, OX1 4EW, UK               

richard.swinburne@oriel.ox.ac.uk     

 

Professor Brian Leftow

Oriel College, University of Oxford

OXFORD, OX1 4EW, UK

brian.leftow@oriel.ox.ac.uk

 

Professor John Cottingham            

Dept of Phil, University of Reading

READING, RG6 6AA, UK               

j.g.cottingham@reading.ac.uk

 

Dr Marianne Talbot

Rewley House, University of Oxford

OXFORD, OX1 2JA, UK

marianne.talbot@conted.ox.ac.uk