Thomas Williams
Thomas Williams
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Thomas Williams is Professor of Catholic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies and Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1994. Before coming to the University of South Florida he taught at the University of Iowa, where he received the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Collegiate Teaching Award in 2005. He was Alvin Plantinga Fellow in the Center for Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame in 2005-06.
Dr Williams's research interests are in medieval philosophy and theology (especially Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, and Duns Scotus) and the philosophy of religion. He recently completed a book on Anselm for the Great Medieval Thinkers series from Oxford University Press, co-authored with Professor Sandra Visser of Valparaiso University (2009), as well as an Anselm reader for Hackett Publishing Company (2007). His current projects include articles commissioned for The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics and A Companion to the Philosophy of Action and a revision of Readings in Medieval Philosophy, originally edited by James Walsh and Arthur Hyman.
Dr Williams edited The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus (2003) and Thomas Aquinas: Disputed Questions on the Virtues (2005) and translated Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will (1993) and Anselm's Monologion and Proslogion (1996) and Three Philosophical Dialogues: On Truth, On Freedom of Choice, and On the Fall of the Devil (2002). He has contributed essays to the Cambridge Companions to Augustine, Anselm, Abelard, and Medieval Philosophy, and to the Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy . His articles have appeared in journals such as Anglican Theological Review, Modern Theology, Philosophy and Literature, Apeiron, Faith and Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. He is on the editorial board of Studies in the History of Ethics and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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