Michael Bergmann (philosopher)

Michael Bergmann
Michael Bergmann
Born	Michael Abram Bergmann; 1964 (age 55–56)
Nationality	American
Other names	Mike Bergmann
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Waterloo; University of Notre Dame;
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Sub-discipline	Epistemology; metaphysics; philosophy of religion;
School or tradition	Analytic philosophy; Christianity; skeptical theism;
Institutions	Purdue University
Main interests	Externalism; problem of evil; religious epistemology;

Michael Abram Bergmann (born 1964) is an American analytic philosopher teaching in the department of philosophy at Purdue University.[1] His primary interests are epistemology and philosophy of religion. In epistemology, he writes mostly on externalism and, in philosophy of religion, he mostly writes on the epistemology of religious belief and the problem of evil.

Biography

Born in 1964, Bergmann received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in philosophy from the University of Waterloo and, in 1997, a PhD from the University of Notre Dame. He has taught at Purdue University since 1997. Bergmann was the president of the Society of Christian Philosophers from 2016 to 2019.

In his early work, Bergmann wrote about Alvin Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism. He raised objections inspired by Thomas Reid's epistemology. In philosophy of religion, Bergmann, along with other philosophers, developed skeptical theism, a position which addresses the evidential argument from evil formulated by William L. Rowe. With Michael Rea and Michael Murray, he edited the book Divine Evil? The Moral Character of the God of Abraham (Oxford University Press, 2010).

In epistemology, Bergmann defends externalism.

Justification Without Awareness: A Defense of Epistemic Externalism, Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Professional and academic associations
Preceded by Michael Rea	President of the Society of Christian Philosophers 2016–2019	Succeeded by Terence Cuneo

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