
Tim Mosteller, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Office Phone: 951-343-4770
E-mail: tmostell@calbaptist.edu
Office Location: BUSB 243
Office Hours: MWF 12:00-1:00 by arrangment
Degree | Major Emphasis | Institution | Year |
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Ph.D. | Philosophy | University of Miami | 2002 |
M.A. | Philosophy of Religion and Ethics | Biola University | 1997 |
B.A. | Philosophy, International Relations | University of Southern California | 1993 |
Academic Year Abroad, American University in Cairo and Tel-Aviv University.
20th Century Epistemology
Applied Ethics
Basic Reasoning
Bioethics
Comparative Religion
Epistemology
Ethics
Goodness, Truth and Beauty
History of Western Philosophy I (pre-Socratics to Kant)
Introduction to Philosophy
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Religion
Symbolic Logic
Epistemology (theories of truth)
Metaphysics (theories of existence)
Ethics (meta-ethics, bioethics)
Biola University
California State University, San Marcos
University of Miami
University of San Diego
Books
2022. Four Views of Christian Metaphysics (Editor), Wipf & Stock Cascade Books
2021. The Heresy of Heresies: A Defense of Christian Common Sense Realism, Wipf & Stock Cascade Books
2017. Contemporary Perspectives on C.S. Lewis' Abolition of Man (Co-Editor with Gayne Anacker), Bloomsbury Press.
2014. Theories of Truth: An Introduction, Bloomsbury Press.
2008. Relativism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Continuum Press.
2006. Relativism in Contemporary American Philosophy, Continuum Press.
Articles and Book Chapters
2021. "From Being to Goodness to 鈥楲ife, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,鈥" Lex Naturalis
2018. "Human Nature and the Phenomenology of Emotional Correspondence," Journal of East-West Thought
2018. 鈥淭he Incompatibility of a Thomistic View of Existence and Natural Existence Monism,鈥 Acta Philosophica.
2015. 鈥淔allacies and Phronesis,鈥 Proceedings of the European Conference on Argumentation, Academic Press.
2013. 鈥淩eligious Diversity, Truth and Tolerance,鈥 Civility and Education in a World of Religious Diversity, Routledge Press.
2012. 鈥淕eorge MacDonald鈥檚 Philosophy and C.S. Lewis,鈥 Persona and Paradox: Issues of Identity for C.S. Lewis, His Friends and Associates, Cambridge Scholars Press.
2011. 鈥淭eleology and Human Embryonic Personhood,鈥 Ethics and Medicine.
2010. 鈥淧latonism and Recent Correspondence Theories of Truth,鈥 Southwest Philosophy Review.
2008. 鈥淥n the Epistemic Possibility of Blasphemy, Heresy and Free Speech,鈥 Florida Philosophical Review
2006. 鈥淩eligious Epistemic Relativism and the Possibility of Religious Knowledge,鈥 Philosophia Christi.
2005. 鈥淎ristotle and Headless Clones,鈥 Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.
2005. 鈥淭he Tao of Narnia,鈥 Narnia and Philosophy, Open Court Press.
Recent Paper Presentations
2023. "Method and 鈥楾he Problem of the Criterion鈥 in Specific Cases of Bioethical Moral Knowledge," European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, University of Riga.
2023. "What the Identity of Being and Goodness Implies for Natural Theology," Tyndale Fellowship-Philosophy of Religion Study Group, Hoddeson, United Kingdom
2023. "A Reply to Beauregard鈥檚 鈥淐orporeality, the Body, and Moral Knowledge,'" Hildebrand-Willard Colloquium, Westmont College
2022. "Are Being and Good Convertible? Like Totally! An 鈥80鈥檚 Debate Revisited," Evangelical Philosophical Society, Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, TX
2022. "Why Callest Thou Me Good? From Commonsense to Good to God," Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, The Queen鈥檚 College, Oxford University
2022. "Moral Knowledge and the Good of Medicine in Diverse Global Contexts," European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, University of Warsaw
2022. "An Axiology of Christian Diaspora: Pilgrims in a Strange Land," Keynote Lecture Edith Stein Institute Summer School, Granada, Spain
2021. "Towards the Reappearance of Moral Knowledge: A Thomistic Proposal for a Willardian Project," Evangelical Philosophical Society,
Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, TX
2021. "A Thomistic Alternative to G.E. Moore鈥檚 Meta-Ethical Trilemma," Second Scholasticism, Analytical Metaphysics, Christian Apologetics, Charles University, Prague
2021. "Towards the Reappearance of Moral Knowledge: Aquinas and Hildebrand鈥檚 Personalism on Willard鈥檚 Intension Question," Hildebrand Project Summer Residency, Franciscan University of Steubenville 2021
2021. "Is Aquinas鈥 Argument for the Real Sameness of Being and Goodness Really Good" Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers Bi-Annual Meeting.
2021. "Aquinas鈥 Four Ways to Good," Evangelical Philosophy Society Southeastern Meeting.
2019. "The Logic of Existence: A Wholistic Approach." Keynote Lecture Edith Stein Institute Summer School, Granada, Spain.
2019. "Metaphysical Realism as a Cure for Chronic Cases of Medical-Ethical Fuzziness," European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, University of Oslo
2019. "Discovering Existence: Moreland, Stein and Vallicella Among Some Thomists," Evangelical Philosophy Society National Meeting.
2018. "The Abolition of Medicine and Health Care" European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, University of Lisbon School of Medicine.
2018. 鈥淢etaphysics, Markets and Mondragon,鈥 Keynote Lecture Edith Stein Institute Summer School, Granada, Spain.
2018. 鈥淧hilosophical Realism and Free Markets,鈥 Invited Lectures at the European University of Tirana, and Qiriazi University, Albania.
2018. 鈥淩ealist Metaphysics and Free Markets,鈥 Evangelical Philosophical Society Western Meeting, Grand Canyon University.
2017. 鈥淥ntology and Genetic Germ Line Enhancement,鈥 European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, University of Belgrade.
2017. 鈥淥ntology, Theology and Politics,鈥 International Academy of Philosophy, Granada, Spain.
2017. 鈥淭hree Problems for Existence Monism,鈥 Evangelical Philosophy Society Western Meeting.
2017. 鈥淣ature and Existence Monism: Essence, Identity and Quantification,鈥 Universita della Santa Croce, Rome, Italy.
2016. 鈥淰allicella鈥檚 Regress Objection to Moreland鈥檚 Account of Existence: A Rejoinder,鈥 Evangelical Philosophy Society National Meeting.
2016. 鈥淭wo Thomistic Routes to Existence: Klubertanz and Stein,鈥 Evangelical Philosophy Society Western Meeting, Gateway Seminary.
2015. 鈥淛osef Seifert鈥檚 Ontological Realism,鈥 International Congress on Realist Phenomenology, International Academy of Philosophy, Granada, Spain.
2015. Fallacies and Phronesis, European Conference on Argumentation, Universidad Nova, Lisbon Portugal.
2015. 鈥淲ho鈥檚 Afraid of Relativism? No One Who Rejects Relativism!鈥 Society of Christian Philosophers, Western Division Meeting, Azusa Pacific University.
2014. 鈥淭owards a Phenomenological Correspondence Theory of Emotions,鈥 European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions, Universidad Nova, Lisbon, Portugal.
2014. 鈥淎 Reply to Nate Jackson's 鈥楾he Vagueness of Theistic Interpretations of William James鈥 Pluralism', American Philosophical Association, Western Division Meeting.
The Hills Community Church, San Marcos, CA
Member, Evangelical Philosophical Society
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"My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely in Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." (Paul to the Church at Colosse)