Brendan Sweetman
Dr Brendan Sweetman is a teacher, philosopher and writer. From Dublin, Ireland, he is Professor of Philosophy and holds the Sullivan Chair in Philosophy at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Evolution, Chance, and God (Bloomsbury, 2015), Religion and Science: An Introduction (Continuum, 2010), Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Continuum, 2007), The Vision of Gabriel Marcel (Brill, 2008), Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square (InterVarsity, 2006), Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology (Oxford U.P., 1992), and, most recently, The Crisis of Democratic Pluralism: The Loss of Confidence in Reason and the Clash of Worldviews (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021). He has published more than one hundred articles and critical reviews in a variety of journals, collections, and reference works, including International Philosophical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi, Philosophical Quarterly, Review of Metaphysics, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Encyclopedia Britannica, New Catholic Encyclopedia, and the American National Biography. Dr Sweetman’s books and articles have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.