R. Scott Smith, PhD.
Educational Background
Associate Professor of Ethics and Christian Apologetics
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Ph.D., Univeristy of Southern California
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M.A., University of Southern California
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M.A., Talbot Theological Seminary
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B.A., California State University, Hayward
Scott Smith teaches Philosophy of Religion, and Ethics. His is particularly interested in ethics, postmodernism, the emergent church, naturalism, philosophy of religion, and how we know truth. He works closely with students as an advisor, and has designed several graduate courses in metaphysics and bioethics.
Affiliations
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American Academy of Religion (AAR)
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American Philosophical Association (APA)
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Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP)
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Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS) - Secretary-Treasurer since November 2000
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American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA)
Books & Publications
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Truth and the New Kind of Christian: The Emerging Effects of Postmodernism in the Church (Crossway, 2005)
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Virtue ethics and moral knowledge: philosophy of language after MacIntyre and Hauerwas (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2003)
Articles
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“Post-Conservatives, Foundationalism, and Theological Truth: A Critical Evaluation.” In Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 48:2, June 2005.
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"Hauerwas and Kallenberg, and the Issue of Access to an Extra-Linguistic Realm." In Heythrop Journal 45:3, July 2004.
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"Some Conceptual Problems for Hauerwas’s Virtue Ethics " In Philosophia Christi 3:1, 2001.
Chapters
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“Christian Postmodernism and the Internal Relation of Language and the World,” in Christianity and the Postmodern Turn, ed. Myron Penner (Brazos Press, 2005).
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“Postmodernism and the Priority of the Language-World Relation,” in Christianity and the Postmodern Turn, ed. Myron Penner (Brazos Press, 2005).
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“Language, Theological Knowledge, and the Postmodern Paradigm,” in Reclaiming the Center: Confronting Evangelical Accommodation in a Postmodern Times, ed. Paul K. Helseth, Millard J. Erickson, and Justin Taylor (Crossway, 2004).