Peter van Inwagen

John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy

Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-4619

Phone: (574) 631-5910
E-Mail: vaninwagen.1@nd.edu

Office: 116 Malloy
Office Hours: 4:00-5:00 Tuesdays and Thursdays or By Appointment

Education:

B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1965), Ph.D., Rochester (1969).

Areas of Interest:

Metaphysics, Philosophical Theology

Selected Bibliography

Recent Articles:

• "Freedom to Break the Laws," Midwest Studies in Philosophy (2004)
• "A Theory of Properties," Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (2004)
• "Existence, Ontological Commitment, and Fictional Entities," The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (2003)
• "Free WIll Remains a Mystery," Philosophical Perspectives (2000)
• "Materialism and the Psychological Continuity Account of Personal Identity," Philosophical Perspectives (1997)
• "Temporal Parts and Identity across Time," The Monist (2000)
• "Modal Epistemology," Philosophical Studies (1998)

Books:

• The Problem of Evil (2006)
• Ontology, Identity, and Modality (2001)
• (co-edited with Dean Zimmerman), Metaphysics: The Big Questions (1998)
• The Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics (1997)
• God, Knowledge and Mystery (1995)
• Metaphysics (1993)
• Material Beings (1990)
• (co-edited with James Tomberlin), Alvin Plantinga (1985)
• An Essay on Free Will (1983)
• ed., Time and Cause: Essays Presented to Richard Taylor (1980)

 

Online Papers:

• Names for Relations
• Plantinga's Replacement Argument
• Can Mereological Sums Change Their Parts?
• Was George Orwell a Metaphysical Realist?
• How to Think about the Problem of Free Will
• McGinn on Existence
• I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come

 

Additional Information:

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2005)

Lecture Series:

• The F.D. Maurice Lectures, three lectures delivered at the University of London in March, 1999
• The Wilde Lectures on Natural Religion, eight lectures delivered at Oxford University in Trinity Term, 2000
• The Stewart Lectures: three lectures delivered at Princeton University, October 2002
• The Gifford Lectures, eight lectures delivered at the University of St. Andrews, May 2003

• The Jellema Lectures: two lectures delivered at Calvin College, March 2004

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