CURRICULUM VITAE GARY SLATER St. Edward s University 4901 Sylvandale Drive 3001 S. Congress Ave. Austin, TX 78745 Austin, TX 78704 1 512 293 2372 215 Andre Hall gslater@stedwards.edu 1 512 448 8460 EDUCATION 2014 DPhil in Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford Dissertation: Trajectories of Peircean Philosophical Theology: Scriptural Reasoning, Axiology of Thinking, and Nested Continua Joel Rasmussen: supervisor 2009 MTh in History and Theology at the University of Edinburgh Dissertation: Women s Ordination in the Church of England: An Abductive Approach Nicholas Adams: supervisor 2006 BA in History and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia PUBLICATIONS Books 2015 C.S. Peirce and the Nested Continua Model of Religious Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Refereed Journal Articles 2014 A Peircean Response to the Evolutionary Debunking of Morality, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, vol. 49, no. 3, p. 593-611. Book Reviews 2015 Perspectives on Pragmatism, by Robert Brandom. American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, vol. 36, no. 1 2013 Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology, by Megan Craig. American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, vol. 34, no. 3, p. 266-9. 1
2013 The Trinity and an Entangled World: Relationality in Physical Science and Theology, by John Polkinghorne. Expository Times, vol. 124, no. 5, p. 256-7. 2013 God and the World of Signs, by Andrew Robinson. American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, vol. 34, no. 1, p. 86-9. 2013 American Grace: How Religion Unites and Divides Us, by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell. Expository Times, vol. 124, no. 4, p. 197-8. 2012 Kierkegaard s Critique of Christian Nationalism, by Stephen Backhouse. Expository Times, vol. 124, no 3, p. 134-5. 2012 Science and Religion: A New Introduction, by Alister E. McGrath. Reviews in Science and Religion, no. 59, p. 35-40. Web-Based Publications 2012 Logic as the Lens of Faith: An Abductive Approach to Religious Conflict. Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service. http://ualr.edu/socialchange/2012/08/16/logic-as-the-lens-of-faithan-abductive-approach-to-religious-conflict/ Manuscripts in Preparation AWARDS AND HONORS The Moral Framework of A Pluralistic Universe. In The Cries of the Wounded: William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life, edited by Jacob L. Goodson. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 2015 Innovation Fellowship, St. Edward s University 2015 Fellowship, Institute on Teaching as Vocation in the Holy Cross Tradition, St. Edward s University 2012 Finalist, Arthur Peacock Prize, UK Science and Religion Forum INVITED TALKS 2016 A Guess at the Riddle: Religious Belief Within Democratic Discourse. Town & Gown Club. Austin, Texas. March 10. 2014 A Peircean Philosophic Theology: Scriptural Reasoning, Axiology of Thinking, and Nested Continua. University of Virginia. October 21. 2014 The Ethical Philosophy of Breaking Bad. Philosophy Forum, Austin Community College. February 11. 2
2012 The Theological Implications of C.S. Peirce s Metaphysics. University of Edinburgh. January 18. 2011 C.S. Peirce and Metaphysical Historiography. University of Cambridge. April 8-10. CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Conferences Organized 2016 Annual Meeting of the Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought, Manitou Springs, Colorado. June 13-16. 2014 Annual Meeting of the Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought, Manitou Springs, Colorado. June 9-12. Papers Presented 2015 Substituting Implicit/Explicit for Prescriptive/Descriptive : A Pragmatic Response to Inquiry into Religious Values. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, Georgia. November 21-24. 2015 IARPT: A History of its Traditions and Practices. Annual Meeting of the Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought, Asheville, North Carolina. June 15-18. 2014 The Case for Reading Robert Neville Visually. Annual Meeting of the Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought, Manitou Springs, Colorado. June 9-12. 2014 The Reverend ROYGBIV: Color Names and the Religious Imagination in Kandinsky s Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Mediating Religion: Graduate Religion Conference, Indiana University. April 18-19. 2013 Toward a Peircean Projective Hermeneutics: A Nested Continua Model and Questions of Religious Autonomy. Ways of Knowing: Graduate Religion Conference, Harvard Divinity School. October 25-26. 2012 The Debate on Women s Ordination in the Church of England: An Abductive Approach. History of Christianity: Graduate Religion Conference University of Edinburgh. May 1. 2011 The Status of History in Scriptural Reasoning. Society of the Study of Theology Postgraduate Conference, University of Edinburgh. December 6. 2011 The Evolutionary Cosmology of C.S. Peirce. Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion Annual Conference, University of Oxford. July 8-11. 3
2010 Truth, Beauty, and the Neglected Argument for the Reality of God : The Theosemiotics of John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn. Annual Meeting of the Society of the Study of Theology, University of Manchester. April 12-14. Campus Talks 2015 Engagement Rings: How a Model of Nested Circles Can Engage Students. Annual Teaching Symposium, St. Edward s University. August 20. 2015 Innovation Project: Nested Histories. Innovation Institute, St. Edward s University. May 29. 2015 The Purgatory of Procrastination. East Hall, St. Edward s University. March 25. 2012 The Abductive Metaphysics of C.S. Peirce: Two Theological Approaches. Modern Theology Seminar, University of Oxford. March 5. 2011 What is Theology? Undergraduate Open Day, University of Oxford. July 4. 2010 An Abductive Approach to Religious Conflict. St Cross College Colloquium, University of Oxford. November 9. Conferences Facilitated 2016 Annual Meeting of the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, Texas. March 11-13. 2011 Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion Annual Conference, University of Oxford. July 8-11. 2010 William James and the Transatlantic Conversation: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Philosophy of Religion. Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought, University of Oxford. September 23-25. TEACHING EXPERIENCE St. Edward s University, Austin, Texas The American Experience (Spring 2016) Basic Christian Questions (Fall 2015, Spring 2016) History of Christian Theology I (Fall 2014, Fall 2015) History of Christian Theology II (Spring 2015) Methods in Religious and Theological Studies (co-taught: Spring 2015) Religions of the World (Spring 2016) 4
Huston-Tillotson University, Austin, Texas Comparative Religion (Spring 2015) University of Texas at Austin, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Austin, Texas History of Christianity (Spring 2016) University of Edinburgh, Scotland Metaphysics and Morality (Spring 2012) RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2012-2014 Visiting Scholar, University of Texas at Austin, Religious Studies Department SERVICE TO PROFESSION Board of Directors, Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought, 2014- Reviews Editor, American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, 2013- Peer Editor, UK Science and Religion Forum, 2011-2012 UNIVERSITY SERVICE Programming Assistant, Center for Religion and Culture, St. Edward s University, 2015 Research Assistant, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, Oxford, 2010-2011 Student President, St Cross College, University of Oxford, 2010-2011 Graduate Joint Consultative Committee, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, 2010-2011 EXTRA TRAINING Peer-to-peer Teacher Mentoring and Observation, St. Edward s University, 2015 Developing Learning and Teaching Programme, University of Oxford, 2012 LANGUAGES German (speaking: conversational, reading: can read with a dictionary) French (speaking: conversational, reading: competent, writing: competent) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought (since 2011) American Academy of Religion (since 2010) 5