Timothy O’Connor

Tim O’Connor is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington and a member of its Cognitive Sciences Program. He specializes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. O’Connor received his doctorate in philosophy from Cornell University. He has held year-long research fellowships at the Universities of Notre Dame, St. Andrews, and Oxford and delivered 150 academic lectures in 20 countries. O’Connor has published over 70 scholarly articles and is the author of two books — Persons and Causes: The Metaphysics of Free Will (2000) and Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency (2008) – and is now writing a third, provisionally titled Thinking About Faith: Philosophy, Science, and Christian Belief. He also has edited or co-edited six volumes of scholarly articles, most recently Religious Faith and Intellectual Virtue (2014). He is currently involved with the interdisciplinary Emergence Project at Durham University.