Chris Tweedt
CONTACT INFORMATION
2005 Comal Street
Waco, TX 76708
(704) 941-9079
chris_tweedt@baylor.edu
EDUCATION
Baylor University
Ph.D., Philosophy (Expected Spring 2015)
M.A., Philosophy (May 2012)
Southern Evangelical Seminary
M.A., Philosophy (May 2008)
Iowa State University
B.A., Philosophy, Religious Studies (December 2004)
PUBLICATIONS
“Splitting the Horns of Euthyphro’s Modal Relative”
Faith and Philosophy, expected April 2013
“Religious Epistemology” (with Trent Dougherty)
Philosophy Compass, forthcoming
BOOK REVIEWS
On Reflection, by Hilary Kornblith
Journal of Moral Philosophy, forthcoming
PRESENTATIONS
“A New Look at Reid’s Answer to the Skeptic”
North Texas Philosophical Association (April 2013)
“Separation and the Capacity for Independent Existence”
North Carolina Philosophical Society (February 2013)
“What’s so Bad about a Disjunctive Definition?”
Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy (October 2012)
“All of Spinoza’s Properties are Intensional”
North Texas Philosophical Association (April 2012)
“An Obvious Account of Epistemic Possibility”
Pacific APA (April 2012)
“Skepticism, Easy Knowledge, and Skeptical Theists’ Defenses”
Evangelical Philosophical Society Midwest (March 2012)
“Grounding Moral Obligations in Divine Command Theory”
Society of Christian Philosophers Central Division Meeting (March 2012)
“Fictional Exemplars”
Joint Meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society / South Carolina
Society for Philosophy (February 2012)
*Won the best Graduate Student Essay prize
“Separation and the Capacity for Independent Existence”
North Texas Philosophical Association (April 2011)
“Splitting the Horns of Euthyphro’s Modal Relative: A Reply to Leftow”
Society of Christian Philosophers Mountain-Pacific Meeting (March 2011)
“Does Adding Agent Causation Solve All the Compatibilist’s Problems? A Reply to
Markosian”
North Carolina Philosophical Society (February 2011)
“A Problem for Numerical Sameness Without Identity”
Society of Christian Philosophers Eastern Regional Meeting (March 2010)
Joint Meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society / South Carolina
Society for Philosophy (February 2010)
INVITED TALKS
Comments on Philip Swenson’s “Ability, Foreknowledge, and Explanatory
Dependence”
Mountain-Pacific Society of Christian Philosophers Meeting (March 2013)
Comments on Joseph Stenberg’s “The Case of P and P&P”
Central APA (February 2013)
Comments on Bradley Rettler’s “How to Think about Grounding”
7th Annual Baylor Philosophy of Religion Conference (January 2012)
Comments on Linda Zagzebski’s “Epistemic Trust in Others” (Wilde Lecture and
chapter 3 of her Epistemic Authority: A Theory of Trust, Authority, and Autonomy in
Belief)
The Zagzebski Symposium: Epistemic Authority: A Theory of Trust, Authority, and
Autonomy in Belief (November 2011)
AWARDS AND HONORS
Presidential Scholar, Baylor University, August 2010-present
Best Graduate Student Essay Runner-up, Evangelical Philosophical Society Midwest
Meeting (Paper: “Skepticism, Easy Knowledge, and Skeptical Theists’ Defenses”
March 2012)
Graduate Student Travel Award, Pacific APA, April 2012
Best Graduate Student Essay, Joint Meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical
Society / South Carolina Society for Philosophy (Paper: “Fictional Exemplars”)
February 2012)
Full Scholarship, Witherspoon Institute’s Themes in the Philosophy of Thomas
Aquinas and Peter Geach, Princeton University, John Haldane, director, August
2011
Full Scholarship, Witherspoon Institute’s First Principles Seminar, Princeton
Theological Seminary, Christopher Tollefsen, director, August 2009
INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
Founder/Leader of the Baylor Metaphysics Reading Group (2011-present)
Member of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (2012-present)
Member of the American Philosophical Association (2009-present)
Member of the North Carolina Philosophical Society (2009-present)
Member of the Society of Christian Philosophers (2007-present)
Member of the Evangelical Philosophical Society (2007-present)
President of the Southern Evangelical Seminary Philosophy Club (2006-2008)
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Introduction to Logic, Baylor University, Fall 2013
Introduction to Philosophy, McLennan Community College, Fall 2013
Introduction to Philosophy, McLennan Community College, Spring 2013
Introduction to Philosophy, McLennan Community College, Fall 2012
Teaching Assistant (Robert Kruschwitz), Spring 2013
Research Assistant (Trent Dougherty), Fall 2012
Research Assistant (Jonathan Kvanvig), Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
Research Assistant (Trent Dougherty), Spring 2011
Teaching Assistant (Stuart Rosenbaum), Fall 2010
Research Assistant (Hector Avalos), Fall 2003-Fall 2004
SERVICE
Assistant Editor, PhilPapers, Epistemology
Referee: American Philosophical Quarterly (2013-present)
Referee: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2012- present)
Organizer of the Baylor-Georgetown-Notre Dame Philosophy of Religion Conference,
Nov. 2012
Organizer of the 7th Annual Baylor Philosophy of Religion Conference, Jan. 2012
GRADUATE COURSEWORK
Baylor University:
Free Will (Pruss)
Philosophy of Language (Kvanvig)
Philosophical Writing (Kvanvig)
Knowledge Ascriptions (Dougherty)
Advanced Logic (Pruss)
Problem of Evil (Kvanvig)
Readings in Ancient & Medieval Philosophy (comprehensive exams)
Foundations of Moral Obligation (Evans)
Leibniz & Spinoza (Pruss)
Workshop on Teaching Philosophy (Kruschwitz)
The Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas (Pruss)
Epistemology: Pragmatic Encroachment (Kvanvig)
Plato (Schultz)
Readings in Modern & Contemporary Philosophy (comprehensive exams)
Religious and Irreligious Experience (Dougherty)
Hume and his Critics (Buras)
Emotions and Virtues (Roberts)
Time (Pruss)
Fallibilism (Dougherty)
Probability Theory (Dougherty)
Southern Evangelical Seminary:
The Doctrine of Being in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Plato
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Moral Philosophy
Symbolic Logic
History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy