Professor T. Ryan Byerly
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Professor in Philosophy of Religion
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School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT
- Profile
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Ryan joined the Department in Spring 2015. Previously, Ryan completed his PhD at Baylor University and taught at Regent University in the USA. His primary research interests are in Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, and Virtue Theory.
- Publications
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Books
- Faith, Flourishing, and Agnosticism. Oxford University Press.
- Introduction. Routledge.
- Intellectual Dependability: A Virtue Theory of the Epistemic and Educational Ideal. New York: Routledge Press.
- Putting Others First: The Christian Ideal of Others-Centeredness. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Introducing Logic and Critical Thinking: The Skills of Reasoning and the Virtues of Inquiry. Baker Academic.
- The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence A Time-Ordering Account. Bloomsbury Publishing. View this article in WRRO
Edited books
- Death, immortality and eternal life..
- Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven. Oxford University Press.
Journal articles
- The making of virtuous chemists. Nature Chemistry, 17(8), 1139-1141.
- Agnostics who accept God’s supposed love experience greater well-being. Mental Health Religion and Culture, 26(1), 62-75.
- The values of intellectual transparency. Social Epistemology, 37(3), 290-304. View this article in WRRO
- Expansive other-regarding virtues and civic excellence. Journal of Moral Education, 52(1), 95-107.
- Adam C. Pelser and W. Scott Cleveland (eds), Faith and Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy in Aid of Becoming Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). £75.00. ISBN 978-0-1928-9534-9.. Religious Studies, 59(3), 564-566.
- Intellectual Honesty and Intellectual Transparency. Episteme, 20(2), 410-428.
- Group intellectual transparency: a novel case for non-summativism. Synthese, 200(2).
- Others-centeredness: a uniquely positive tendency to put others first. Personality and Individual Differences, 186(Part A).
- The transformative power of accepting God's love. Religious Studies, 58(4), 831-845.
- The Congregational Character Questionnaire: An Initial Empirical Examination of the Significance of Collective Church Character Traits. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 50(3), 340-354.
- Recovering a role for moral character and ascetic practice in religious epistemology. Res Philosophica, 98(2), 161-179.
- Michael W. Austin Humility and Human Flourishing: A Study in Analytic Moral Theology. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Pp. 246. £65.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198830221.. Religious Studies, 57(3), 567-571.
- Truthmaker Trinitarianism. TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, 3(2), 77-97.
- The awe-some argument for pantheism. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 11(2), 1-21. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching for intellectual virtue in logic and critical thinking classes: Why and how. Teaching Philosophy, 42(1), 1-27. View this article in WRRO
- Epistemic Subjectivism in the Theory of Character. Thought, 8(4), 278-285.
- Moral property eliminativism. Philosophical Studies, 175(11), 2695-2713. View this article in WRRO
- From a Necessary Being to a Perfect Being. Analysis. View this article in WRRO
- Ordinary morality does not imply atheism. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 83, 85-96. View this article in WRRO
- The indirect response to the foreknowledge argument. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 9(4), 3-12. View this article in WRRO
- Free Will Theodicies for Theological Determinists. Sophia, 1-22. View this article in WRRO
- Collective Virtue. Journal of Value Inquiry. View this article in WRRO
- The Special Value of Others-Centeredness. Res Philosophica. View this article in WRRO
- Problems for Explanationism on Both Sides. Erkenntnis.
- Do god's beliefs about the future depend on the future?. The Journal of Analytic Theology, 3. View this article in WRRO
- A Dispositional, Internalist, Evidentialist Virtue Epistemology. Logos and Episteme : an International Journal of Epistemology, V(4), 399-424. View this article in WRRO
- The Values and Varieties of Humility. Philosophia. View this article in WRRO
- Restricted Omniscience and Ways of Knowing. Sophia, 53(4). View this article in WRRO
- Reconstituting Ersatzer Presentism. Res Philosophica.
- God Knows the Future by Ordering the Times. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion.
- Foreknowledge, Accidental Necessity, and Uncausability. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 137-154. View this article in WRRO
- The Special Value of Epistemic Self-Reliance. Ratio, 27(1), 53-67. View this article in WRRO
- Explanationism and Justified Beliefs about the Future. Erkenntnis.
- It Seems Like there aren't Any Seemings. Philosophia.
- Why Infallible Divine Foreknowledge cannot Uniquely Threaten Human Freedom, but its Mechanics Might. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 4(4). View this article in WRRO
- Ockhamism vs Molinism, Round Two: A Reply to Warfield. Religious Studies.
- The Ontomystical Argument, Revisited. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
- THE COLLECTIVE CHARACTERS OF RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 54(3).
Book chapters
- The Evidential Support Relation of Evidentialism, The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence (pp. 63-73). Routledge
- An Interdisciplinary Methodology for Studying Collective Intellectual Character Traits, Social Virtue Epistemology (pp. 453-469). Routledge
- Being good and loving God In Buchak L & Zimmerman DW (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion (pp. 40-82). Oxford: Oxford University Press. View this article in WRRO
- Introduction, Death, Immortality and Eternal Life (pp. 1-7). Taylor & Francis
- The All-Powerful, Perfectly Good, and Free God In Kvanvig JL (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion OUP View this article in WRRO
- Virtues of Repair in Paradise In Byerly TR & Silverman EJ (Ed.), Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven Oxford University Press View this article in WRRO
- what's wrong with satanic temptation? In McCraw B & Arp R (Ed.), Philosophical Approaches to the Devil Routledge
- Foreknowledge and Explaining the Absence of Freedom, The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence: A Time-Ordering Account (pp. 37-54). Bloomsbury Press View this article in WRRO
- Faith, Flourishing, and Agnosticism. Oxford University Press.
- Postgraduate Supervision
Ryan welcomes PhD supervision in Philosophy of Religion and Virtue Theory
Current PhD Students:
Samuel Yao Jian Chan (First supervisor). Thesis topic: assessing theistic moral arguments from moral realism
Yuhan (Felicity) Fu (First supervisor). Thesis topic: motion and moral psychology
George Surtees (First supervisor). Thesis topic: How intellectual humility can promote close friendship between people of different social identities?
Henry Roe (Second supervisor), Thesis topic: Epistemic arrogance of individuals and collectives