Charles Taliaferro
Charles Taliaferro is an American philosopher specializing in theology and philosophy of religion.
Biography
Taliaferro received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Brown University, his M.T.S. at Harvard University, a M.A. at University of Rhode Island, and a B.A. from Goddard College.
He is an emeritus professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Faithful Research, and a member of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of twenty books, most recently The Image in Mind; Theism, Naturalism and the Imagination, co-authored with the American artist Jil Evans. He has been a visiting scholar or guest lecturer at a large number of universities, including Brown, Cambridge, Notre Dame, Oxford, Princeton, and the University of Chicago. Since 2013 Taliaferro is editor-in-chief of the journal Open Theology.
Taliaferro has defended substance dualism.
Selected publications
Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. With Jil Evans.The Golden Cord: A Short Book on the Secular and the Sacred. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2012.The Routledge Companion to Theism. New York: Routledge, 2012. Edited, with Victoria Harrison and Stewart Goetz.A Brief History of the Soul. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. With Stewart Goetz.Turning Images in Philosophy, Science and Religion: A New Book of Nature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. With Jil Evans.Aesthetics: A Beginner's Guide. London: Oneworld Publications, 2011.A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010. Editor, with Elsa Marty.A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, 2nd Edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Editor, with Paul Draper and Philip Quinn.The Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical Theology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Editor, with Chad Meister.Dialogues about God. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.Philosophy of Religion: A Beginner's Guide. London: Oneworld Publications, 2009.Naturalism. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008. With Steart Goetz.Is God Real?. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007. With William Lane Craig.Love, Love, Love: And Other Essays. Lanham, MD: Cowley Publications, 2006.Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century.. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.Cambridge Platonist Spirituality.. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2004. With Alison Tepley and Jaroslav Pelikan. Praying with C.S. Lewis. Frederick, MN: Word Among Us Press, 2004.Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Editor, with Paul Griffiths. Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 1998.Consciousness and the Mind of God. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.