From Physicalism to Christianity: Kevin Vallier on His Philosophical Journey

Описание: In this interview, Dr. Kevin Vallier provides an intellectual biography, an overview of his work the intersection of political philosophy and philosophy of religion, and explains how philosophy helped lead him back to belief in God, then to back Christianity — and, ultimately, to Eastern Orthodoxy. This is a prelude to a future discussion in which we'll focus more squarely on his contributions to political philosophy.

Kevin is currently Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership at the University of Toledo. In 2004, he earned his B.A. in philosophy (with a minor in economics) from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004, followed by a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Arizona in 2011. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University's Political Theory Project, he served as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University from 2012 to 2024, when he moved into his current position at Toledo.

Kevin also maintains a Substack, “The Liberal Tortoise” (https://liberaltortoise.kevinvallier...., and has received accolades such as the 2023 Sanders Prize in the Philosophy of Religion.

For more on his work, visit his personal website: https://www.kevinvallier.com/.

Kevin is the author of the following books:

Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation (Routledge, 2014): https://www.routledge.com/Liberal-Pol...

Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society (Oxford University Press, 2019): https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...

Trust in a Polarized Age (Oxford University Press, 2020): https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...

All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2023): https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...

He has also edited or co-edited the following volumes:

Arguments for Liberty (co-edited with Aaron Ross Powell; Cato Institute, 2017): https://www.cato.org/books/arguments-...

Political Utopias: Contemporary Debates (co-edited with Michael Weber; Oxford University Press, 2017): https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...

Religious Exemptions (co-edited with Michael Weber; Oxford University Press, 2018): https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...

A New Theist Response to the New Atheists (co-edited with Joshua Rasmussen; Routledge, 2020): https://www.routledge.com/A-New-Theis...

Social Trust (co-edited with Michael Weber; Routledge, 2021): https://www.routledge.com/Social-Trus...

Public Reason and Diversity: Reinterpretations of Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2022): https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/...