Professor of Philosophy
Director, Center for Philosophy of Religion
Department of Philosophy
100 Malloy Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574) 631 – 5568 // Email: mrea@nd.edu

• Analytic Theology (2011 - 2014)
• The Problem of Evil in Modern and Contemporary Thought (2010 - 2013)

Articles



• `The Problem of Material Constitution' The Philosophical Review 104 (1995): 525-552.
• `Supervenience and Co-location.' American Philosophical Quarterly 34 (1997): 367-75.
• `In Defense of Mereological Universalism.' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (1998): 347-360.
• `Sameness Without Identity: An Aristotelian Solution to the Problem of Material Constitution.' Ratio 11 (1998): 316-328.
• `Temporal Parts Unmotivated.' The Philosophical Review 107 (1998): 225-260.
• `McGrath on Universalism.' Analysis 59 (1999): 201-204.
• `Constitution and Kind Membership.' Philosophical Studies 97 (2000): 169-193.
• `Theism and Epistemic Truth Equivalences.' Noûs 34 (2000): 291-301.
• `What is Pornography?' Noûs 35 (2001): 118-145.
• `How to Be an Eleatic Monist.' Philosophical Perspectives 15 (2001): 129-151.
• `Four-Dimensionalism.' pp. 246-280 in The Oxford Handbook for Metaphysics, edited by Michael Loux and Dean Zimmerman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
• 'Relative Identity and the Doctrine of the Trinity.' Philosophia Christi 5 (2003): 431-446.
• `Material Constitution and the Trinity.' (with Jeff Brower, Purdue University). Faith and Philosophy 22 (2005): 487-505.
• `Understanding the Trinity.' (with Jeff Brower, Purdue University), Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 8 (2005): 145-57.
• `In Defense of Skeptical Theism: A Reply to Ameida and Oppy.' (with Michael Bergmann). Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (2005): 241-51.
• `Naturalism and Ontology: A Reply to Dale Jacquette.' Faith and Philosophy 22 (2005): 343-57.
• `Polytheism and Christian Belief.' Journal of Theological Studies 57 (2006): 133-148.
• `Presentism and Fatalism.' Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84 (2006): 511-524.
• `Naturalism and Moral Realism.' in Knowledge and Reality, edited by Thomas Crisp, David VanderLaan, and Matthew Davidson.(Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2006).
• `The Metaphysics of Original Sin.' in Persons: Human and Divine, edited by Dean Zimmerman and Peter van Inwagen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
• `How Successful is Naturalism?' pp. 105 - 116 in How Successful is Naturalism? edited by Georg Gasser (Frankfurt: Ontos-Verlag, 2007)
• `Realism in Theology and Metaphysics.' pp. 323-44 in Belief and Metaphysics, edited by Conor Cuningham and Peter Candler (London: SCM Press, 2007)
• `Hyperspace and the Best World Problem: A Response to Hud Hudson.' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2008): 444-51.
• `Presentism and Ockham's Way Out.' (with Alicia Finch, Northern Illinois University), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 1 (2008): 1-17.
• `Wright on Theodicy.' Philosophia Christi 10 (2008): 461-70.
• `The Trinity.' pp. 403-29 in The Oxford Handbook of Philosopical Theology, edied by Thomas P. Flint and Michael Rea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
• `Narrative, Liturgy, and the Hiddenness of God.' pp. 76-96 in Metaphysics and God: Essays in Honor of Eleonore Stump, edited by Kevin Timpe (New York: Routledge, 2009)
• `Universalism and Extensionalism.' Analysis 70 (2010): 490 - 96.
• `Hylomorphism and the Incarnation.' pp. 134 - 52 in The Metaphysics of the Incarnation, edited by Anna Marmodoro and Jonathan Hill (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
• `Divine Hiddenness, Divine Silence.' pp. 266 - 75 in Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, 6th edition, edited by Louis Pojman and Michael Rea (Boston: Wadsworth/Cengage, 2011)
• 'Hylomorphism Reconditioned.' Philosophical Perspectives 25 (2011): 341 - 58.
• `Authority & Truth.' forthcoming in "But My Words Shall Never Pass Away": The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures ed. D. A. Carson, 2012.
• '(Reformed) Protestantism.' forthcoming in Christian Philosophies of Religion, edited by Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis. Acumen, 2014.



Books





Analytic Theology Interview Part One Part Two

Graduate Students

• Jeff Green (Ph.D. 2007; co-supervisor: Peter van Inwagen) Dissertation: Work for a New Theory of Modality
• Andrew Bailey (Ph.D. expected 2011; co-supervisor: Alvin Plantinga) Dissertation: Person and Animal
• Alex Skiles (Ph.D. expected 2012) Dissertation:Parthood and Ontological Priority
• Luke Potter (Ph.D. expected 2012) Dissertation: The Word Incarnate: The Doctrine of Scripture and the Doctrine of the Incarnation
• Kenneth Boyce (ABD) Dissertation Topic: Fictionalism
• Jeffrey Snapper (ABD; co-supervisor: Peter van Inwagen)
• Bradley Rettler (ABD)

Honor Code Materials

• Student Responsibilities Under the Honor Code
• Philosophy Department Handout on Plagiarism