Kelly James Clark, Professor, Philosophy
616-526-6421
kclark@calvin.edu
Hiemenga Hall 353
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Educational Background
PhD, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 1985
MA, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
MA, Humanities, Western Kentucky University, 1981
BA, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Michigan State University, 1978
Courses
- God and Philosophy (204)
- Chinese Thought and Culture (226)
- Contemporary Anglo-American Philosophy (341)
- Death and the Meaning of Life (Interim)
Research Interests
Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, Chinese Philosophy
Books
Evidence and Religious Belief. Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Co-edited with Ray VanArragon.
Contemporary Issues in Science and Religion. Peking University Press, forthcoming. Co-edited with Xu Xiangdong.
Ethics, Religion and Society (Christian Academics, Fifth Volume). Co-edited with Zhang Qingxiong and Xu Yi Yie. Shanghai Guji Press, 2007.
Human Nature in Chinese and Western Culture, co-edited with Chen Xia. Sichuan University Press, 2005.
101 Key Philosophical Terms and Their Importance for Theology. Westminster/John Knox Press, 2004. Co-authored with James K.A. Smith and Richard Lints.
A Dialogue Between Science and Religion, co-edited with Mel Stewart and Zhou Zhianzang. Xiamen University Press, 2004.
The Story of Ethics: Human Nature & Human Fulfillment. Prentice-Hall, 2003. Co-authored with Anne Poortenga.
Chinese Edition: xxx.
Five Views on Apologetics. Zondervan Publishing Company, 2000. Co-authored with William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, John Frame and Paul Feinberg.
When Faith Is Not Enough. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997. Portuguese edition: Quando a Fé Nao é Suficiente, translated by Henry DeCoster. Rio de Janeiro: Textus, 2001.
Philosophers Who Believe. InterVarsity Press,1993. Awarded Christianity Today’s best books of 1994. Korean Edition: xxx, 2006.
Return to Reason. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1990.
Farsi Edition: xxx, 2010.
Recent Publications/Presentations
“Morality and Happiness,” co-authored with Andrew Samuel. In Kelly Clark and Ray VanArragon, editors, Evidence and Religious Belief, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“Reidian Religious Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion,” co-authored with Justin Barrett. Forthcoming.
“Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion,” co-authored with Justin Barrett. Faith and Philosophy, forthcoming.
"How Real People Believe: Reason & Belief in God,” "Explaining God Away: The Challenge of Evolutionary Psychology,” and "Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion,” in Science and Religion in Dialogue, Melville Stewart, ed. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2010).
“The Good of Diversity and the Virtue of Tolerance,” The Quarterly Journal of Philosophical Meditations 1.1 (Spring 2009), Iran.
“Tradition and Transcendence in Masters Kong and Rorty,” Rorty Pragmatism and Confucianism, Yong Huang, ed. State University Press of New York Press, 2009.
“A Tale of Two Deities,” American Theological Inquiry 1.2 (July 2008).
“Pluralism and Proper Function,” in Alvin Plantinga: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
"Plantinga and Zhuangzhi on Natural Knowledge" in Faith, Knowledge and Naturalism. Kelly James Clark and Xing Taotao, editors. Peking University Press, 2007.
“The Good of Diversity and the Virtue of Tolerance,” in Ethics, Religion & Society. Co-edited by Kelly James Clark, Zhang Qingxiong and Xu Yi Yie (Shanghai Guji Press, 2007).
“Story Shaped Lives,” in Faith, Philosophy and Film, Doug Geivet and James Spiegel, editors. IVP Academic, 2007.
“Three Kinds of Confucian Scholarship,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy33 (December 2006).
“Confucian Hermeneutics,” Books and Culture, Sept.-Oct., 2006.
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“Evolution and Ethics,“ at Peking University, Renmin University, Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences, East China Normal University and Fudan University, November 5-12, 2009.
"Zhuangzi’s Polished Mirror,” at The First International Summit on Laozi and Daoist Culture, Beijing, November 1-3, 2009.
“God, Chance and Purpose,” Joseph Butler Society Lecture, Oxford University, October xxx, 2009.
“Evolution and Ethics,” at the Templeton Concluding Conference on Science and Religion, Peking University, June 16-19, 2009.
“Reformed Epistemology and the Cognitive Science of Religion,” at the xxx Conference at Hong Kong Baptist University, February xxx, 2009.
“Explaining God Away? The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion,” at the National University of Singapore, January xxx, 2009.
“Explaining God Away? The Evolutionary Psychology of Religion,” at Loyola Marymount University, January xxx, 2009.
"The Gods of Abraham, Isaiah and Confucius," at Columbia University, Dec. 5, 2008.
“Explaining God Away: the Challenge of Evolutionary Psychology,” presented at Renmin and Peking Universities and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, October 9-15, 2008.
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