Prof. William Hasker

William Hasker (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh), is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Huntington University in Huntington, Indiana, where he taught from 1966 until 2000.  His main interests in philosophy are philosophy of religion and philosophy of mind.  Areas of interest in religion and science include in addition creation-evolution, scientific naturalism, and others. He continues to pursue actively questions about “God, time, and knowledge,” along with related concerns about divine providence and the problem of evil.  The mind-body problem and the nature of persons are also a continuing concern.  Prof. Hasker’s most active research project at present, however, concerns the doctrine of the Trinity.

Prof. Hasker is the author of Metaphysics (InterVarsity, 1983), God, Time, and Knowledge (Cornell 1989), The Emergent Self (Cornell 1999), Providence, Evil, and the Openness of God (Routledge 2004), and The Triumph of God Over Evil (InterVarsity, 2008), and is co-author or co-editor of several other volumes.  He has authored articles in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition, and the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, as well as numerous journal articles.  He was the editor of Faith and Philosophy from 2000 until 2007.

Selected publications

Books
        

• The Triumph of God over Evil: Theodicy for a World of Suffering, Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, forthcoming 2008.
• Providence, Evil, and the Openness of God, London: Routledge, 2004.
• Middle Knowledge: Theory and Applications, edited, with David Basinger and Eef Dekker, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2000.
• The Emergent Self, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999; paperback edition 2001.
• Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, edited, with Michael Peterson, David Basinger, and Bruce Reichenbach, New York:  Oxford University Press, 1996; Second Edition 2001; Third Edition 2007.
• The Openness of God:  A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God, with Clark Pinnock, Richard Rice, John Sanders, and David Basinger, Downers Grove, Ill.:  InterVarsity Press, 1994.
• Reason and Religious Belief:  An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, with Michael Peterson, David Basinger, and Bruce Reichenbach, New York:  Oxford University Press, 1991; also published in Korean, Persian, Russian,  Norwegian (Formuft och religios tro: En inledning till relgionsfilosofin, Nora: Nya Doxa, 1997), and Chinese (Renmin University Press, 2005);  Second Edition, 1998; Third Edition, 2003.
• God, Time, and Knowledge, Ithaca, N.Y.:  Cornell University Press, 1989; paperback edition, 1998.  Part of ch. 2 reprinted in Middle Knowledge: Theory and Applications, pp. 66-76.
• Metaphysics:  Constructing a Worldview, Downers Grove, Ill.:  InterVarsity Press, 1983.

 Entries in Encyclopedias and Reference Works

• “Afterlife,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward M. Zalta, (Spring 2006 edition),  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/afterlife/
• “Analytic Philosophy of Religion,” in William J. Wainwright, ed., The Oxford Handbook for Philosophy of Religion, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 421-46. 
• "Creation and Conservation, Religious Doctrine of," "Occasionalism," and "Providence," in  Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward Craig, Editor, London:  Routledge, 1998.
• "Theism and Evolutionary Biology," in Philip Quinn and Charles Taliaferro, eds., A Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, London:  Blackwell, 1997; revised edition forthcoming 2008.
• "Epistemology, Religious," in Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, David M. Borchert, Editor, New York:  MacMillan, 1996.

• "Evidentialism," "Justification by Faith," "Middle Knowledge,"and "Self-Referential Incoherence," in Robert M. Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1995; second edition 1999.

Papers on science and religion

• “The Emergence of Persons,” in James Stump and Alan Padgett, eds. A Companion to
  Christianity and Science, London: Blackwell, forthcoming.
• "Theism and Evolutionary Biology," in Philip Quinn and Charles Taliaferro, eds., A Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, London:  Blackwell, 1997; revised edition 2010. 
• “Souls Beastly and Human,” in Mark C. Baker and Stewart Goetz, eds., The Soul Hypothesis: Investigations into the Existence of the Soul (New York: Continuum, 2011), pp. 202-17.
• “Intelligent Design,” Philosophy Compass, 2009, online at DOI 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00213.x.
• “How Not to Be A Reductivist,” in Irreducibly Conscious: Selected Papers on Consciousness,, ed. Alexander Battyany and Avshalom Elitzur (Heidelberg: Universitäsverlag Winter, 2009), pp. 73-93.
• "Darwin on Trial Revisited," Christian Scholar’s Review XXIV:4 (May 1995), pp. 479-488.
  "Mr. Johnson for the Prosecution," Christian Scholar’s Review XXII:2 (December 1992), pp. 177-86.
• "Evolution and Alvin Plantinga," Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 44:3 (September 1992), pp. 150-62.
• "Brains and Persons," in The Reality of Christian Learning:  Strategies for Faith-Discipline Integration, ed. Harold Heie and David L. Wolfe, Grand Rapids:  Christian Universities Press and William B. Eerdmans, 1987, pp. 181-203.
• "MacKay on Being a Responsible Mechanism:  Freedom in a Clockwork Universe," Christian Scholar’s Review 8 (1978), pp. 130-140.
  

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