Dr. Samuel Newlands, University of Notre Dame:
Samuel Newlands is the William J and Dorothy K O’Neill Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He received his PhD from Yale University. Most of his scholarly work focuses on early modern metaphysics and philosophy of religion. He has published widely in venues ranging from professional philosophy journals to The Wall Street Journal, and his most recent book, Reconceiving Spinoza, will be available this spring from Oxford University Press. He also co-directs the Center for Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame, and he has received more than $12 million dollars in grant funding for research initiatives on the problem of evil, the nature of transformative experience, hope and optimism, and, most recently, the nature of the self.
Dr. Erik Wielenberg, DePauw University:
Erik Wielenberg earned his PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and is Professor of Philosophy at DePauw University. He was a Graduate Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame and, more recently, was a Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He has authored three books: Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe, God and the Reach of Reason, and Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism.
Dr. Timothy O’Connor, Baylor University:
Dr. Timothy O’Connor is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. Previously, he taught philosophy at Indiana University for over twenty years, and as a professor here, he was a strong supporter of the work of The Veritas Forum at Indiana University.
Trinity Fellowship 