Thomas Williams
Thomas Williams
Associate Professor
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Thomas Williams is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies. 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 in 2005 he taught at Creighton University and the University of Iowa. 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 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 is currently at work on a book on Anselm for the Great Medieval Thinkers series from Oxford University Press, co-authored with Professor Sandra Visser of Valparaiso University, as well as a translation of Anselm's Cur Deus Homo and an Anselm reader for Hackett Publishing Company.
Dr Williams has contributed essays to the Cambridge Companions to Augustine, Anselm, Abelard, and Medieval Philosophy. His articles have appeared in journals such as Modern Theology, Philosophy and Literature, Apeiron, Faith and Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Archiv fuer Geschichte der Philosophie. He is on the editorial board of Studies in the History of Ethics.
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