Michael C. Rea

{{short description|Analytic philosopher, professor of philosophy}} {{Redirect|Michael Rea|the Irish cricketer|Michael Rea (cricketer)}} {{BLP primary sources|date=November 2010}} {{Infobox philosopher|era=21st-century philosophy|name=Michael C. Rea|image=|birth_name=Michael Cannon Rea|birth_date=|institutions=University of Notre Dame|main_interests=Metaphysics, Philosophy of religion|notable_ideas=Critique of naturalism, Divine hiddenness|notable_works=''World Without Design''<br>''Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion''|influences=|awards=Gifford Lecturer (2017)}} '''Michael Cannon Rea''' is an American analytic philosopher and, since 2017, John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://philosophy.nd.edu/news/news/michael-rea-named-john-a-obrien-chair-of-philosophy/|title=Michael Rea named John A. O'Brien Chair of Philosophy // Department of Philosophy // University of Notre Dame|last=Dame|first=Marketing Communications: Web // University of Notre|website=Department of Philosophy|date=15 May 2017 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref> at the University of Notre Dame. He delivered the 2017 Gifford Lecture on divine hiddenness.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ndsmcobserver.com/2015/09/professors-begin-research-project-transformative-experiences/|title = Professors begin research project on transformative experiences // The Observer|date = 21 September 2015}}</ref>

== Work ==

In ''World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism'', Rea argues that naturalists are not justified in accepting either realism about material objects, or realism about other minds, or materialism.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Andrew |last=Melnyk |title=Review: World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism |journal=Mind |volume=113 |issue=451 |year=2004 |pages=575–581|doi=10.1093/mind/113.451.575 }}</ref>

== Bibliography == * ''World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism''. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Clarendon), 2002 * ''Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion'' (with Michael Murray). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. * ''Metaphysics: The Basics'', London: Routledge (under contract)

=== Edited books === * ''Material Constitution: A Reader''. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. {{ISBN|978-0-8476-8384-0}} * ''Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology'', 5th edition (with Louis P. Pojman). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-495-09504-0}} * ''Critical Concepts in Philosophy: Metaphysics'', 5 vols., London: Routledge, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-415-39751-3}} * ''Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology'' (with Thomas P. Flint). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-19-928920-2}} * ''Analytic Theology: New Essays in Theological Method'' (with Oliver D. Crisp). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-19-920356-7}} * ''Arguing About Metaphysics''. New York: Routledge, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-415-95825-7}} * ''Philosophical and Theological Essays on the Trinity'' (with Thomas McCall), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-19-921621-5}} * ''Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology'', 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-19-923746-3}} * ''Divine Evil? The Moral Character of the God of Abraham'' (with Michael Bergmann and Michael Murray). Oxford University Press, under contract. {{ISBN|978-0-19-957673-9}}

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [http://www.nd.edu/~mrea/ Official website]

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