Professor T. Ryan Byerly
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Professor in Philosophy of Religion
t.r.byerly@sheffield.ac.uk
45 Victoria Street
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Professor T. Ryan Byerly
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
45 Victoria Street
Sheffield
S3 7QB
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
45 Victoria Street
Sheffield
S3 7QB
- Profile
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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
- Introduction.
- Putting Others First: The Christian Ideal of Others-Centeredness. Routledge.
- Introducing Logic and Critical Thinking: The Skills of Reasoning and the Virtues of Inquiry. Baker Academic.
- The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence: A Time-Ordering Account. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Faith, Flourishing, and Agnosticism. Oxford University Press.
- Intellectual Dependability: A Virtue Theory of the Epistemic and Educational Ideal. New York: Routledge Press.
Edited books
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- Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven. Oxford University Press.
Journal articles
- . Mental Health, Religion and Culture.
- . Journal of Moral Education, 52(1), 95-107.
- . Synthese, 200(2).
- . Personality and Individual Differences, 186(Part A).
- . Res Philosophica, 98(2), 161-179.
- . Religious Studies, 57(3), 567-571.
- . TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, 3(2), 77-97.
- . European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 11(2), 1-21.
- . Teaching Philosophy.
- . Thought, 8(4), 278-285.
- . ´Ü²â²µ´Ç²Ô®, 54(3), 680-701.
- . Philosophical Studies, 175(11), 2695-2713.
- . Analysis.
- . International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 83(1), 85-96.
- . Sophia, 56(2), 289-310.
- . The Journal of Value Inquiry, 50(1), 33-50.
- The Special Value of Others-Centeredness. Res Philosophica.
- Problems for Explanationism on Both Sides. Erkenntnis.
- do god's beliefs about the future depend on the future?. The Journal of Analytic Theology(3).
- A Dispositional, Internalist, Evidentialist Virtue Epistemology. Logos & Episteme : an International Journal of Epistemology.
- The Values and Varieties of Humility. Philosophia.
- . Sophia, 53(4), 427-434.
- Reconstituting Ersatzer Presentism. Res Philosophica.
- . International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 75(2), 137-154.
- God Knows the Future by Ordering the Times. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion.
- The Special Value of Epistemic Self-Reliance. Ratio.
- Explanationism and Justified Beliefs about the Future. Erkenntnis.
- It Seems Like there aren't Any Seemings. Philosophia.
- Why Infallible Divine Foreknowledge cannot Uniquely Threaten Human Freedom, but its Mechanics Might. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
- Ockhamism vs Molinism, Round Two: A Reply to Warfield. Religious Studies.
- The Ontomystical Argument, Revisited. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
- . Social Epistemology, 1-15.
- . Religious Studies, 1-3.
- . Episteme, 1-19.
- . Journal of Psychology and Theology, 009164712110219-009164712110219.
- . Religious Studies, 1-15.
- . European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 9(4), 3-12.
Chapters
- , The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence (pp. 63-73). Routledge
- , Social Virtue Epistemology (pp. 453-469). Routledge
- , Death, Immortality and Eternal Life (pp. 1-7). Taylor & Francis
- The All-Powerful, Perfectly Good, and Free God In Kvanvig JL (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Oxford University Press
- Foreknowledge and Explaining the Absence of Freedom In Byerly (Ed.), The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence: A Time-Ordering Account (pp. 37-54). Bloomsbury Press
- Routledge
- Being Good and Loving God In Buchak L & Zimmerman D (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Virtues of Repair In Byerly TR & Silverman EJ (Ed.), Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven Oxford University Press
- Introduction.
- 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