Tim Mosteller, Ph.D.

Academic Year Abroad, American University in Cairo and Tel-Aviv University.

20th Century Epistemology
Applied Ethics
Basic Reasoning
Bioethics
Comparative Religion
Epistemology
Ethics
Goodness, Truth and Beauty
History of Western Philosophy I (pre-Socratics to Kant)
Introduction to Philosophy
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Religion
Symbolic Logic

Epistemology (theories of truth)
Metaphysics (theories of existence)
Ethics (meta-ethics, bioethics)

Biola University
California State University, San Marcos
University of Miami
University of San Diego

Books

2022. Four Views of Christian Metaphysics (Editor), Wipf & Stock Cascade Books

2021. The Heresy of Heresies: A Defense of Christian Common Sense Realism, Wipf & Stock Cascade Books

2017. Contemporary Perspectives on C.S. Lewis' Abolition of Man (Co-Editor with Gayne Anacker), Bloomsbury Press.

2014. Theories of Truth: An Introduction, Bloomsbury Press.

2008. Relativism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Continuum Press.

2006. Relativism in Contemporary American Philosophy, Continuum Press.

Articles and Book Chapters

2021. "From Being to Goodness to ‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,’" Lex Naturalis

2018. "Human Nature and the Phenomenology of Emotional Correspondence," Journal of East-West Thought

2018. “The Incompatibility of a Thomistic View of Existence and Natural Existence Monism,” Acta Philosophica.

2015. “Fallacies and Phronesis,” Proceedings of the European Conference on Argumentation, Academic Press.

2013. “Religious Diversity, Truth and Tolerance,” Civility and Education in a World of Religious Diversity, Routledge Press.

2012. “George MacDonald’s Philosophy and C.S. Lewis,” Persona and Paradox: Issues of Identity for C.S. Lewis, His Friends and Associates, Cambridge Scholars Press.

2011. “Teleology and Human Embryonic Personhood,” Ethics and Medicine.

2010. “Platonism and Recent Correspondence Theories of Truth,” Southwest Philosophy Review.

2008. “On the Epistemic Possibility of Blasphemy, Heresy and Free Speech,” Florida Philosophical Review

2006. “Religious Epistemic Relativism and the Possibility of Religious Knowledge,” Philosophia Christi.

2005. “Aristotle and Headless Clones,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.

2005. “The Tao of Narnia,” Narnia and Philosophy, Open Court Press.

Recent Paper Presentations

2023. "Method and ‘The Problem of the Criterion’ in Specific Cases of Bioethical Moral Knowledge," European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, University of Riga.

2023. "What the Identity of Being and Goodness Implies for Natural Theology," Tyndale Fellowship-Philosophy of Religion Study Group, Hoddeson, United Kingdom

2023. "A Reply to Beauregard’s “Corporeality, the Body, and Moral Knowledge,'" Hildebrand-Willard Colloquium, Westmont College

2022. "Are Being and Good Convertible? Like Totally! An ‘80’s Debate Revisited," Evangelical Philosophical Society, Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, TX

2022. "Why Callest Thou Me Good? From Commonsense to Good to God," Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, The Queen’s College, Oxford University

2022. "Moral Knowledge and the Good of Medicine in Diverse Global Contexts," European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, University of Warsaw

2022. "An Axiology of Christian Diaspora: Pilgrims in a Strange Land," Keynote Lecture Edith Stein Institute Summer School, Granada, Spain

2021. "Towards the Reappearance of Moral Knowledge: A Thomistic Proposal for a Willardian Project," Evangelical Philosophical Society,
Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, TX

2021. "A Thomistic Alternative to G.E. Moore’s Meta-Ethical Trilemma," Second Scholasticism, Analytical Metaphysics, Christian Apologetics, Charles University, Prague

2021. "Towards the Reappearance of Moral Knowledge: Aquinas and Hildebrand’s Personalism on Willard’s Intension Question," Hildebrand Project Summer Residency, Franciscan University of Steubenville 2021

2021. "Is Aquinas’ Argument for the Real Sameness of Being and Goodness Really Good" Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers Bi-Annual Meeting.

2021. "Aquinas’ Four Ways to Good," Evangelical Philosophy Society Southeastern Meeting.

2019. "The Logic of Existence: A Wholistic Approach." Keynote Lecture Edith Stein Institute Summer School, Granada, Spain.

2019. "Metaphysical Realism as a Cure for Chronic Cases of Medical-Ethical Fuzziness," European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, University of Oslo

2019. "Discovering Existence: Moreland, Stein and Vallicella Among Some Thomists," Evangelical Philosophy Society National Meeting.

2018. "The Abolition of Medicine and Health Care" European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, University of Lisbon School of Medicine.

2018. “Metaphysics, Markets and Mondragon,” Keynote Lecture Edith Stein Institute Summer School, Granada, Spain.

2018. “Philosophical Realism and Free Markets,” Invited Lectures at the European University of Tirana, and Qiriazi University, Albania.

2018. “Realist Metaphysics and Free Markets,” Evangelical Philosophical Society Western Meeting, Grand Canyon University.

2017. “Ontology and Genetic Germ Line Enhancement,” European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, University of Belgrade.

2017. “Ontology, Theology and Politics,” International Academy of Philosophy, Granada, Spain.

2017. “Three Problems for Existence Monism,” Evangelical Philosophy Society Western Meeting.

2017. “Nature and Existence Monism: Essence, Identity and Quantification,” Universita della Santa Croce, Rome, Italy.

2016. “Vallicella’s Regress Objection to Moreland’s Account of Existence: A Rejoinder,” Evangelical Philosophy Society National Meeting.

2016. “Two Thomistic Routes to Existence: Klubertanz and Stein,” Evangelical Philosophy Society Western Meeting, Gateway Seminary.

2015. “Josef Seifert’s Ontological Realism,” International Congress on Realist Phenomenology, International Academy of Philosophy, Granada, Spain.

2015. Fallacies and Phronesis, European Conference on Argumentation, Universidad Nova, Lisbon Portugal.

2015. “Who’s Afraid of Relativism? No One Who Rejects Relativism!” Society of Christian Philosophers, Western Division Meeting, Azusa Pacific University.

2014. “Towards a Phenomenological Correspondence Theory of Emotions,” European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions, Universidad Nova, Lisbon, Portugal.

2014. “A Reply to Nate Jackson's ‘The Vagueness of Theistic Interpretations of William James’ Pluralism', American Philosophical Association, Western Division Meeting.

The Hills Community Church, San Marcos, CA

Member, Evangelical Philosophical Society

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"My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely in Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." (Paul to the Church at Colosse)