David E. Alexander Department of Philosophy Home Address ...

David E. Alexander
Department of Philosophy
Home Address
Huntington University
916 Himes St
2303 College Ave Huntington, IN 46750
Huntington, IN 46750 Home: (260) 355-0121
Office: (260) 359-4305
Email: dalexander@huntington.edu
Education
• Ph.D., Philosophy, Baylor University, 2008
Dissertation Title: Teleological Moral Realism: An Explication and Defense
Advisor: Michael Beaty; Readers: Jonathan Kvanvig, Robert C. Koons (UT
Austin), Margaret Watkins, Francis Beckwith
• M.A., Philosophy, Baylor University, 2005
• B.A., Philosophy, Arizona State University, 2003 summa cum laude
Areas of Specialization
Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion
Areas of Competence
Epistemology, Medieval Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Logic
Academic Positions
• Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Huntington University, Fall 2009-present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Calvin College, Fall 2008-Spring 2009
• Instructor of Record, Department of Philosophy, Baylor University, Fall 2006-Summer
2008
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Baylor University, Fall 2003-Spring 2006
Publications and Works in Progress
Books
• Goodness, God and Evil
-Continuum Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Continuum, 2012.
• Calvinism and the Problem of Evil
-Edited by David E. Alexander and Daniel M. Johnson, projected Oct. 2013
Articles
• “Open Theism and Origins Essentialism”
-New Essays on Open Theism, edited by Ben Arbour and Kevin Timpe,
forthcoming
• “Reid and Fodor on Language”
-Journal of Scottish Thought, forthcoming

David Alexander 2
• “The View from the Armchair: Responding to Kornblith’s Alternative to Armchair
Philosophy”
-With Anthony Bryson, Essays in Philosophy: Vol. 13: Iss. 1, Article 10.
Available at: http://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/vol13/iss1/10
• “Problems with Moral/Natural Supervenience”
-Religious Studies, (2011), 47: 73-84
• “Recent Trends in Cosmological Arguments”
-Philosophy Compass vol 3, March 2008, http://www.blackwellsynergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2008.00134.x
• “Semantic and Content Internalism with External Dependence”-with Alexander Pruss
-under review
• “Plantingan Internalism: How to be an Internalist about Proper Function”
-under review
Book Reviews
• “A Review of World Without Design by Michael C. Rea”
-Christian Scholars Review, (35)3, Spring 2006
Presentations/Workshops
• “Divine Command Theory and the Intensionality Problem”
-Society of Christian Philosophers, Central Division, Hope College, February 24-
26, 2011
-EPS, San Francisco, November, 2011
• “Plantingan Internalism: How to be an Internalist about Proper Function”
-The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, Annual Conference, Lady
Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, September 14-16, 2011
-Evangelical Philosophical Society, Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA. November
17-19, 2010
• Seven Deadly Sins (Capital Vices) in the Christian Tradition
-Summer Seminar, Calvin College, June 21-July 2, 2010
• “Reid and Fodor on Nativism”
-Reid From His Time to Ours, Annual Conference of the British Society for the
History of Philosophy 2010, University of Aberdeen and University of Glasgow,
March 21-26, 2010
• “Descartes’ Cosmological Argument”
-Calvin College, April 2008
• The Thomistic Seminar
-The Witherspoon Institute, Princeton University, August 5-10, 2007
• “Aquinas and Divine Commands”
-Society of Christian Philosophers, April 19-21, 2007, Columbia, South Carolina

David Alexander 3
• “Moral/Natural Supervenience Refuted”
-Society of Christian Philosophers, March 22-24, 2007, Dubuque, Iowa
• “Van Inwagen on Philosophical Failure”
-2 nd Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference, February 23-24, 2007, Baylor
University
• “Comments on Eric Wiland’s “The Grammar of Goodness and the Problem of Evil””
-2 nd Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference, February 23-24, 2007, Baylor
University
• “Between the Extremes of Externalism and Internalism”
-3 rd Annual Graduate Student Conference in Epistemology, April 17-19, 2006,
University of Miami
• “Putnam on Facts and Values”
-Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March 3-5, 2005,
Bakersfield, California
• “Reid’s Theory of Language”
-Northwest Philosophy Conference, October, 2004, Seattle, Washington.
• “Sufficient A Priori Reasons for Denying Libertarian Free Will”
-Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting, April 8-10,
2004, Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, LA.
Honors and Awards
• Professor of the Year, Huntington University (2011)
• Finalist for Professor of the Year, Huntington University (2010)
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, Baylor University (Spring 2008)
• Baylor Graduate School Merit Scholarship (2003-2008)
• Phi Sigma Tau, Baylor University (2003-2008)
• Visiting Graduate Student, University of Texas, Austin (2004-2005)
Philosophy Teaching Experience
• Metaphysics, Spring 2011, Huntington University
• Religious and Scientific Thought, Spring 2011, Huntington Univerisity
• Philosophy of Language, Fall 2010, Huntington University
• God and Ethics, Fall 2010, Huntington University
• Philosophy of Religion, Spring 2010, 2012, Huntington University
• History of Modern Philosophy, Spring 2010, 2012, Huntington University
• History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fall 2009, Fall 2011 Huntington University
• Jewish Thought and Culture, Interim 2009, Calvin College.
• Introduction to Philosophy, Baylor University, Calvin College, Huntington University.
• Introduction to Ethics, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Baylor University, Spring 2011,
Huntington University.
• Introduction to Logic, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Baylor University, Fall 2011, Huntington
University

David Alexander 4
Service
• Reviewer, Synthese, Dialogue, Journal of Value Inquiry
Professional Affiliations
• American Philosophical Association
• Society of Christian Philosophers
Languages
• Reading knowledge of Latin
References
Michael Beaty, Professor of Philosophy, Baylor University
Email: Michael_Beaty@Baylor.edu
Phone: Work (254) 710-4806
Jonathan Kvanvig, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Baylor University
Email: Jonathan_Kvanvig@Baylor.edu
Phone: Work (254) 710-3838
Robert Koons, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
Email: koons@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: Work: (512) 471-5530
Robert C. Roberts, Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Baylor University
Email: Robert_Roberts@Baylor.edu
Phone: (254) 710-3838
Alexander R. Pruss, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Baylor University
Email: Alexander_Pruss@Baylor.edu
Phone: (254) 710-3838
Del Ratzsch, Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College
Email: dratzsch@calvin.edu
Phone: (616) 526-6415