Thomas
Williams
Associate Professor
of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Thomas Williams is Associate Professor
of Philosophy and Religious Studies. He earned a B.A.
in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University in 1988 and
a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame
in 1994. Before coming to the University of South Florida
in 2005 he taught at Creighton University and the University
of Iowa. He was Alvin Plantinga Fellow in the Center
for Philosophy of Religion at Notre Dame in 2005-06.
Dr Williams's research interests are in medieval philosophy and theology (especially
Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, and Duns Scotus) and the philosophy of religion.
He edited The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus (2003) and Thomas
Aquinas: Disputed Questions on the Virtues (2005) and translated Augustine's On
Free Choice of the Will (1993) and Anselm's Monologion and Proslogion (1996)
and Three Philosophical Dialogues: On Truth, On Freedom of Choice, and On
the Fall of the Devil (2002). He is currently at work on a book on Anselm
for the Great Medieval Thinkers series from Oxford University Press, co-authored
with Professor Sandra Visser of Valparaiso University, as well as an Anselm
reader for Hackett Publishing Company.
Dr Williams has contributed essays to the Cambridge Companions to Augustine,
Anselm, Abelard, and Medieval Philosophy. His articles have appeared in journals
such as Modern Theology , Philosophy and Literature, Apeiron, Faith
and Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Archiv
für Geschichte der Philosophie. He is on the editorial board of Studies
in the History of Ethics .
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