Robin Collins

Professor Robin Collins is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame (1993) and has graduate-level training in theoretical physics from the University of Texas at Austin. He has written over forty-five substantial articles and book chapters in philosophy with some of the leading academic presses, spanning the areas of philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of mind. He has given invited talks at many colleges and universities, such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, Stanford University, and Yale University, and has appeared on several nationally broadcast programs such as the PBS show Closer to Truth and Stanford University’s Philosophy Talk Radio. He is internationally recognized as a leading expert on the fine-tuning of the universe for life and its philosophical implications. Professor Collins’ recent work explores the ways in which the laws and fundamental parameters of the universe appear to be optimized for our ability to do science and discover the universe. He recently received a $217,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation for finishing work on this original area of research.