T. Ryan Byerly

Department of Philosophy

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion

Director of Research and Innovation

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t.r.byerly@sheffield.ac.uk

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T. Ryan Byerly
Department of Philosophy
45 Victoria Street
Sheffield
S3 7QB
Profile

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.

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Publications

Books

  • Byerly TR (2021) Introduction. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Byerly TR (2018) Putting Others First: The Christian Ideal of Others-Centeredness. Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Byerly TR (2017) Introducing Logic and Critical Thinking: The Skills of Reasoning and the Virtues of Inquiry. Baker Academic. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Byerly TR (2014) The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence: A Time-Ordering Account. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Byerly T () Faith, Flourishing, and Agnosticism. Oxford University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Byerly T () Intellectual Dependability: A Virtue Theory of the Epistemic and Educational Ideal. New York: Routledge Press. RIS download Bibtex download

Edited books

  • (Ed.) (2021) Death, immortality and eternal life.. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Byerly TR & Silverman EJ (Ed.) (2017) Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven. Oxford University Press. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

Chapters

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