Professor T. Ryan Byerly
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Professor in Philosophy of Religion
Full contact details
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
45 Victoria Street
Sheffield
S3 7QB
- Profile
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Ryan joined the Department in Spring 2015. Previously, Ryan completed his PhD at Baylor University and taught at Regent University in the USA. His primary research interests are in Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, and Virtue Theory.
- Publications
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Books
- Introduction.
- Putting Others First: The Christian Ideal of Others-Centeredness. Routledge.
- Introducing Logic and Critical Thinking: The Skills of Reasoning and the Virtues of Inquiry. Baker Academic.
- View this article in WRRO The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence: A Time-Ordering Account. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Faith, Flourishing, and Agnosticism. Oxford University Press.
- Intellectual Dependability: A Virtue Theory of the Epistemic and Educational Ideal. New York: Routledge Press.
Edited books
- Death, immortality and eternal life..
- Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven. Oxford University Press.
Journal articles
- Agnostics who accept God’s supposed love experience greater well-being. Mental Health, Religion and Culture.
- Expansive other-regarding virtues and civic excellence. Journal of Moral Education, 52(1), 95-107.
- Group intellectual transparency: a novel case for non-summativism. Synthese, 200(2).
- Others-centeredness: a uniquely positive tendency to put others first. Personality and Individual Differences, 186(Part A). View this article in WRRO
- Recovering a role for moral character and ascetic practice in religious epistemology. Res Philosophica, 98(2), 161-179.
- Michael W. Austin Humility and Human Flourishing: A Study in Analytic Moral Theology. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Pp. 246. £65.00 (Hbk). ISBN 9780198830221.. Religious Studies, 57(3), 567-571.
- Truthmaker Trinitarianism. TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, 3(2), 77-97. View this article in WRRO
- The Awe-some Argument for Pantheism. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 11(2), 1-21. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching for Intellectual Virtue in Logic and Critical Thinking Classes: Why and How. Teaching Philosophy. View this article in WRRO
- Epistemic Subjectivism in the Theory of Character. Thought, 8(4), 278-285.
- THE COLLECTIVE CHARACTERS OF RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS. Zygon®, 54(3), 680-701.
- Moral Property Eliminativism. Philosophical Studies, 175(11), 2695-2713. View this article in WRRO
- From a necessary being to a perfect being. Analysis. View this article in WRRO
- Ordinary morality does not imply atheism. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 83(1), 85-96. View this article in WRRO
- Free Will Theodicies for Theological Determinists. Sophia, 56(2), 289-310. View this article in WRRO
- Collective Virtue. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 50(1), 33-50. View this article in WRRO
- View this article in WRRO The Special Value of Others-Centeredness. Res Philosophica.
- Problems for Explanationism on Both Sides. Erkenntnis.
- View this article in WRRO do god's beliefs about the future depend on the future?. The Journal of Analytic Theology(3).
- View this article in WRRO A Dispositional, Internalist, Evidentialist Virtue Epistemology. Logos & Episteme : an International Journal of Epistemology.
- View this article in WRRO The Values and Varieties of Humility. Philosophia.
- Restricted Omniscience and Ways of Knowing. Sophia, 53(4), 427-434. View this article in WRRO
- Reconstituting Ersatzer Presentism. Res Philosophica.
- Foreknowledge, accidental necessity, and uncausability. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 75(2), 137-154. View this article in WRRO
- God Knows the Future by Ordering the Times. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion.
- View this article in WRRO The Special Value of Epistemic Self-Reliance. Ratio.
- Explanationism and Justified Beliefs about the Future. Erkenntnis.
- It Seems Like there aren't Any Seemings. Philosophia.
- View this article in WRRO Why Infallible Divine Foreknowledge cannot Uniquely Threaten Human Freedom, but its Mechanics Might. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
- Ockhamism vs Molinism, Round Two: A Reply to Warfield. Religious Studies.
- The Ontomystical Argument, Revisited. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
- The Values of Intellectual Transparency. Social Epistemology, 1-15.
- Adam C. Pelser and W. Scott Cleveland (eds), Faith and Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy in Aid of Becoming Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). £75.00. ISBN 978-0-1928-9534-9.. Religious Studies, 1-3.
- Intellectual Honesty and Intellectual Transparency. Episteme, 1-19.
- The Congregational Character Questionnaire: An Initial Empirical Examination of the Significance of Collective Church Character Traits. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 009164712110219-009164712110219.
- The transformative power of accepting God's love. Religious Studies, 1-15.
- The Indirect Response To The Foreknowledge Argument. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 9(4), 3-12. View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- The Evidential Support Relation of Evidentialism, The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence (pp. 63-73). Routledge
- An Interdisciplinary Methodology for Studying Collective Intellectual Character Traits, Social Virtue Epistemology (pp. 453-469). Routledge
- Introduction, Death, Immortality and Eternal Life (pp. 1-7). Taylor & Francis
- View this article in WRRO The All-Powerful, Perfectly Good, and Free God In Kvanvig JL (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Oxford University Press
- View this article in WRRO Foreknowledge and Explaining the Absence of Freedom In Byerly (Ed.), The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence: A Time-Ordering Account (pp. 37-54). Bloomsbury Press
- Philosophical Approaches to the Devil Routledge
- View this article in WRRO Being Good and Loving God In Buchak L & Zimmerman D (Ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- View this article in WRRO Virtues of Repair In Byerly TR & Silverman EJ (Ed.), Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven Oxford University Press
- Postgraduate Supervision
Ryan welcomes PhD supervision in Philosophy of Religion and Virtue Theory
Current PhD Students:
Samuel Yao Jian Chan (First supervisor). Thesis topic: assessing theistic moral arguments from moral realism
Yuhan (Felicity) Fu (First supervisor). Thesis topic: motion and moral psychology
George Surtees (First supervisor). Thesis topic: How intellectual humility can promote close friendship between people of different social identities?
Henry Roe (Second supervisor), Thesis topic: Epistemic arrogance of individuals and collectives