...is a new web site, featuring Daniel Dennett (Tufts) and Colin McGinn (Miami), among others, which also includes audio interviews that can be downloaded. In the interview with Professor McGinn, he expresses the view that there are fewer and fewer "Christian philosophers," and that "Christian philosophy" is not a growth movement. I actually think this has things exactly backwards: while Robert Adams and Alvin Plantinga and William Alston were something of anomalies in their generation, the large number of overtly Christian philosophers, who are fairly prominent philosophers as well, in the younger generation (e.g., those under 50 roughly) is quite large, and includes, among others, Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers), Keith DeRose (Yale), Michael Rea and Fritz Warfield (Notre Dame), Robert Koons (Texas), Michael Bergmann (Purdue), and Mark Murphy (Georgetown)--and that's just off the top of my head. To be sure, religious philosophers are probably still a minority in academic philosophy in the U.S., but my sense is they are less of a minority than 25 years ago.
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