T. Ryan Byerly
Department of Philosophy
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion
Director of Research and Innovation
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Ryan joined the Department in Spring 2015. Previously, Ryan completed his PhD at Baylor University and taught at Regent University in the USA. His primary research interests are in Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, and Virtue Theory.
- Publications
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Books
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Edited books
- Death, immortality and eternal life..
Journal articles
- Agnostics who accept God’s supposed love experience greater well-being. Mental Health, Religion and Culture.
- Expansive other-regarding virtues and civic excellence. Journal of Moral Education, 52(1), 95-107.
- Group intellectual transparency: a novel case for non-summativism. Synthese, 200(2).
- Others-centeredness: a uniquely positive tendency to put others first. Personality and Individual Differences, 186(Part A). View this article in WRRO
- Recovering a role for moral character and ascetic practice in religious epistemology. Res Philosophica, 98(2), 161-179.
- Michael W. Austin Humility and Human Flourishing: A Study in Analytic Moral Theology. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Pp. 246. £65.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198830221.. Religious Studies, 57(3), 567-571.
- Truthmaker Trinitarianism. TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, 3(2), 77-97. View this article in WRRO
- The Awe-some Argument for Pantheism. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 11(2), 1-21. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching for Intellectual Virtue in Logic and Critical Thinking Classes: Why and How. Teaching Philosophy. View this article in WRRO
- Epistemic Subjectivism in the Theory of Character. Thought, 8(4), 278-285.
- THE COLLECTIVE CHARACTERS OF RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS. Zygon®, 54(3), 680-701.
- Moral Property Eliminativism. Philosophical Studies, 175(11), 2695-2713. View this article in WRRO
- From a necessary being to a perfect being. Analysis. View this article in WRRO
- Ordinary morality does not imply atheism. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 83(1), 85-96. View this article in WRRO
- Free Will Theodicies for Theological Determinists. Sophia, 56(2), 289-310. View this article in WRRO
- Collective Virtue. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 50(1), 33-50. View this article in WRRO
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- Restricted Omniscience and Ways of Knowing. Sophia, 53(4), 427-434. View this article in WRRO
- Foreknowledge, accidental necessity, and uncausability. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 75(2), 137-154. View this article in WRRO
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- The Values of Intellectual Transparency. Social Epistemology, 1-15.
- Adam C. Pelser and W. Scott Cleveland (eds), Faith and Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy in Aid of Becoming Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). £75.00. ISBN 978-0-1928-9534-9.. Religious Studies, 1-3.
- Intellectual Honesty and Intellectual Transparency. Episteme, 1-19.
- The Congregational Character Questionnaire: An Initial Empirical Examination of the Significance of Collective Church Character Traits. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 009164712110219-009164712110219.
- The transformative power of accepting God's love. Religious Studies, 1-15.
- The Indirect Response To The Foreknowledge Argument. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 9(4), 3-12. View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- The Evidential Support Relation of Evidentialism, The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence (pp. 63-73). Routledge
- An Interdisciplinary Methodology for Studying Collective Intellectual Character Traits, Social Virtue Epistemology (pp. 453-469). Routledge
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- Philosophical Approaches to the Devil Routledge
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- Postgraduate Supervision
Ryan welcomes PhD supervision in Philosophy of Religion and Virtue Theory
Current PhD Students:
Samuel Yao Jian Chan (First supervisor). Thesis topic: assessing theistic moral arguments from moral realism
Yuhan (Felicity) Fu (First supervisor). Thesis topic: motion and moral psychology
George Surtees (First supervisor). Thesis topic: How intellectual humility can promote close friendship between people of different social identities?
Henry Roe (Second supervisor), Thesis topic: Epistemic arrogance of individuals and collectives