Curriculum Vitae
MICHAEL BERGMANN
Department of Philosophy
1360 BRNG (765)
494-4584
Education Ph.D.,
M.A.,
B.A.,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Purdue
University, 1997–2002
Areas of Specialization Epistemology,
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion
Book Justification Without
Awareness (Oxford,
2006)
1. “A New Argument from
Actualism to Serious Actualism,” Noûs
30 (1996), 356-59.
2. “Internalism, Externalism
and the No-Defeater Condition,” Synthese 110
(1997), 399-417.
3. “Might-Counterfactuals,
Transworld Untrustworthiness and Plantinga’s Free Will Defense,” Faith and Philosophy 16 (1999), 336-51.
4. “(Serious) Actualism and
(Serious) Presentism,” Noûs 33
(1999), 118-132.
5. “Deontology and Defeat,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (2000), 113-28.
6. “Externalism and
Skepticism,” The Philosophical Review
109 (2000), 159-94.
7. “Skeptical Theism and
Rowe’s New Evidential Argument from Evil,” Noûs 35 (2001), 278-96.
8. “Commonsense Naturalism,”
in Naturalism Defeated? Essays On Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against
Naturalism, ed. James Beilby (
9. “Molinist
Frankfurt-Style Counterexamples and the Free Will Defense,” Faith and
Philosophy 19 (2002), 462-78.
10. “Grounds for Belief in
God Aside, Does Evil Make Atheism more Reasonable than Theism?,” (co-authored
with Daniel Howard-Snyder) in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion,
ed. Michael Peterson (Blackwell Publishers, 2003), pp. 13-25.
· Reprinted in God and the Problem of Evil, ed.
William Rowe (Blackwell Publishers, 2001), pp. 140-55.
11. “Reply to Rowe,”
(co-authored with Daniel Howard-Snyder) in Contemporary Debates in
Philosophy of Religion, ed. Michael Peterson (Blackwell Publishers, 2003),
pp. 27-29.
· Reprinted in God and the Problem of Evil, ed.
William Rowe (Blackwell Publishers, 2001), pp. 137-40.
12. “What’s Not Wrong
With Foundationalism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68
(2004), 161-65.
13. “Agent
Causation and Responsibility: A Reply to Flint,” Faith and Philosophy 20
(2003), 229-35.
14. “A Dilemma for
Internalism,” in Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga,
eds. Thomas Crisp, Matthew Davidson and David Vander Laan (Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 2006). Pp. 134-74.
15. “Externalist
Justification Without Reliability,” Philosophical Issues 14 (2004),
35-60.
16. “Epistemic Circularity:
Malignant and Benign,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69
(2004), 709-27. [Winner of 2003 Young
Epistemologist Prize]
17. “A Theistic Argument
Against Platonism (and in Support of Truthmakers and Divine Simplicity),”
(co-authored with Jeffrey Brower) Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 2 (2006): 357-86..
18. “BonJour’s Dilemma,” Philosophical Studies 131 (2006):
679-93..
19. “Defeaters and
Higher-Level Requirements,” The Philosophical Quarterly 55 (2005),
419-36.
20. “Foundationalism,” New
Dictionary of Apologetics, eds. C.
Campbell-Jack and G. McGrath (Intervarsity Press, 2006). Pp. 274-77.
21. “Is Klein an Infinitist
About Doxastic Justification?”, Philosophical
Studies 134 (2007), 19-24.
22. “In Defense of Skeptical
Theism: A Reply to Almeida and Oppy,” (co-authored with Michael Rea) Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83
(2005), 241-51.
23. “Divine Responsibility
without Divine Freedom,” (co-authored with Jan Cover) Faith and Philosophy 23 (2006), 381-408.
24. “Reidian Externalism,”
in New Waves in Epistemology, eds.
Vincent Hendricks and
25. “The God of Eth and The
God of Earth,” (co-authored with Jeffrey Brower) Think: Philosophy for Everyone (forthcoming).
26. “Epistemic Circularity
and Common Sense: A Reply to Reed”, Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming).
27. “Externalist Responses
to Skepticism,” The Oxford Handbook of
Skepticism, ed. John Greco (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
28. “Skeptical Theism and
the Problem of Evil,” The
1. “Review of R. Douglas
Geivett’s Evil and the Evidence for God,”
Faith and Philosophy 13 (1996),
436-41.
2. “Review of David
O'Connor's God and Inscrutable Evil: In Defense of Theism and Atheism,” Faith
and Philosophy 16 (1999), 562-69.
3. “Review of John Perry's Dialogue
on Good, Evil and the Existence of God,” Philosophia Christi 1
(1999), 140-41.
4. “Review of Paul Helm’s Faith
With Reason,” Mind 110 (2001), 771-74.
5. “Review of John Greco’s Putting
Skeptics In Their Place: The Nature of
Skeptical Arguments and Their Role in Philosophical Inquiry,” International Philosophical Quarterly 41
(2001), 484-86 .
7. “Review of Laurence
BonJour’s and Ernest Sosa’s Epistemic Justification,” The
Philosophical Review 113 (2004), 435-37.
Conference Presentations and Invited Papers
1. “Peirce’s Reconciliation
of Theism and Experimentalism,”
2. “Internalism and
Externalism in Epistemology (Again),” Pacific Division APA Meeting, April 1996.
3. “Deontology and Defeat,”
Purdue University Philosophy Department, January 1997.
4. “Deontology and Defeat,”
University of Calgary Philosophy Department, January 1997.
5. “Deontology and Defeat,”
Pacific Division APA Meeting, March 1997.
6. “Comments on Gregg Ten
Elshof’s ‘An Internalist Rejoinder to Skepticism’,” Central Division APA
Meeting, May 1998.
7. “Comments on Dean
Zimmerman’s ‘Epiphenomenalism and the Given’,” Midwestern Metaphysics
Conference, University of Notre Dame, July 1998.
8. “A Reidian Objection to
Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism,” Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy,
9. “Externalism and
Skepticism”, Purdue University Philosophy Department, October 1998.
10. “Externalism and
Skepticism”, Western Washington University Philosophy Department, February
1999.
11. “Defeaters and
Plantinga's Warranted Christian Belief,” Society of Christian Philosophers
session at the Eastern Division APA
Meeting, December 1999.
12. “Skeptical Theism and Rowe’s New Evidential
Argument from Evil,” Eastern Division APA Meeting, December 1999.
13. “A Dilemma for Internalism,” Central Division APA Meeting, April
2000.
14. “Comments on William Hasker’s ‘Can God Permit “Just
Enough” Evil?’,” Central Division APA
Meeting, April 2000.
15. “Comments on Jack Lyons’s ‘Mind-World Inference
and Coherentist Accounts of Perceptual Belief’,” Eastern Division APA Meeting,
December 2000.
16. “A Dilemma for
Internalism,” Western Illinois University Philosophy Department,
17. “A Dilemma for Internalism,” Wabash College Philosophy Department,
18. “Defeaters and Higher-Level Requirements,” Central Division APA Meeting,
19. “A Dilemma for Internalism,” Evangelical
Philosophical Society Annual Meeting,
20. “Epistemic Circularity: Malignant and Benign,” Rutgers Epistemology Conference,
21. “Deontologism and
Internalism,” Free
22. “Defeaters and
Higher-Level Requirements,” Center for
Epistemology and Ontology Mini-Conference,
23. “Klein on Infinitism,” 2003
24. “BonJour’s Dilemma,” Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference,
University of
25. “Comesaña’s Solution to the Generality Problem,”
Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference,
26. “Feldman and Conee on the Virtues of
Evidentialism’”, Central Division APA Meeting,
Awards and Fellowships