Mark J. Boone, PhD
I am a teacher and researcher in philosophy (especially the history of philosophy), and sometimes in religion/theology. I have an M. A. and a Ph. D. in Philosophy from Baylor University. I have taught at Baylor University (grad student instructor), McLennan Community College (adjunct), Berry College (2 years, full-time), Forman Christian College (5 years, full-time), and Hong Kong Baptist University (full-time, since 2018).
I also run educational channels on YouTube and Rumble with many, many hours of content. (https://www.youtube.com/user/TeacherOfPhilosophy and https://rumble.com/user/TeacherOfPhilosophy).
I like things like my wife, Tolkien and Lewis, the original Star Trek, the theory of hylomorphism, and a nice cup of tea.
I also run educational channels on YouTube and Rumble with many, many hours of content. (https://www.youtube.com/user/TeacherOfPhilosophy and https://rumble.com/user/TeacherOfPhilosophy).
I like things like my wife, Tolkien and Lewis, the original Star Trek, the theory of hylomorphism, and a nice cup of tea.
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This collection in his honor demonstrates that intellectual pursuits are inherently spiritual, that no area of life is separate from the lordship of Christ, and that true Christian faith is in fact the deep fulfillment of the human experience. On topics ranging from linguistics to gardening and everything in between, these essays represent the depth and breadth of the idea that all goodness is God's goodness, all truth is God's truth, and all beauty is God's beauty.
The Conversion and Therapy of Desire investigates the roots of this project at Cassiciacum, where Augustine is developing a Christian theology of desire, informed by neo-Platonism but transformed by Christian teaching and practices.
The downloadable excerpt used with permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers.
Available from Hearts and Minds Books (Dallastown, PA), Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Christian Books Distributors, and other places where fine books are sold!
Available from Wipf and Stock Publishers, Hearts and Minds Books (Dallastown, PA), Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Christian Books Distributors, and other places where fine books are sold!
Excerpt used with Permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers (http://wipfandstock.com/science-fiction-and-the-abolition-of-man.html).
Published Papers
© 2023 The Authors. The Heythrop Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Trustees For Roman Catholic Purposes Registered.https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14261
In my article I introduce Plantinga’s epistemological sources, explain the structure of his project, overview its development in these three phases, and correct some misunderstandings of Plantinga that arise from inattention to his Reidian particularism. I also show how Reidian particularism itself suggests an improvement to Plantinga’s epistemology which his critics often recommend: that we recognize that evidence for the existence of God, even if it is not necessary for theistic belief to be warranted, may yet be valuable.
THE DOCUMENT HERE DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME PAGINATION AS THE PUBLISHED VERSION.
Confucius' pedagogy is an interesting model to consider and contrast with contemporary models. This chapter introduces these principles and assessments from the Analects and draws out some comparisons to and contrasts with two alternative theories in western moral thought, Augustine and John Dewey.
Published in Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities, edited by Benedict S. B. Chan and Victor C. M. Chan. London: Routledge, 2021.
The accepted version of the paper is included here. Pagination does not match the published version.
However, they diverge in some matters. James defends the right to diverse religious belief and eventually articulates his own account based on religious experience—an account which is intentionally philosophical and not reliant on any religious authority. Iqbal, however, reconsiders and defends Islam understood along largely traditional lines.
I compare and contrast James’ and Iqbal’s religious epistemologies in order to understand both of them better and, hopefully, enrich contemporary reflection on faith and reason through a better awareness of the past dialogue on the subject.
This is the accepted version of the following article: “William James and Allama Iqbal on Empirical Faith;” The Heythrop Journal 61.5 (2020): 775-787, which has been published in final form at [https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.13325]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with the Wiley Self-Archiving Policy [http://www.wileyauthors.com/self-archiving].
This collection in his honor demonstrates that intellectual pursuits are inherently spiritual, that no area of life is separate from the lordship of Christ, and that true Christian faith is in fact the deep fulfillment of the human experience. On topics ranging from linguistics to gardening and everything in between, these essays represent the depth and breadth of the idea that all goodness is God's goodness, all truth is God's truth, and all beauty is God's beauty.
The Conversion and Therapy of Desire investigates the roots of this project at Cassiciacum, where Augustine is developing a Christian theology of desire, informed by neo-Platonism but transformed by Christian teaching and practices.
The downloadable excerpt used with permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers.
Available from Hearts and Minds Books (Dallastown, PA), Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Christian Books Distributors, and other places where fine books are sold!
Available from Wipf and Stock Publishers, Hearts and Minds Books (Dallastown, PA), Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Christian Books Distributors, and other places where fine books are sold!
Excerpt used with Permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers (http://wipfandstock.com/science-fiction-and-the-abolition-of-man.html).
© 2023 The Authors. The Heythrop Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Trustees For Roman Catholic Purposes Registered.https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14261
In my article I introduce Plantinga’s epistemological sources, explain the structure of his project, overview its development in these three phases, and correct some misunderstandings of Plantinga that arise from inattention to his Reidian particularism. I also show how Reidian particularism itself suggests an improvement to Plantinga’s epistemology which his critics often recommend: that we recognize that evidence for the existence of God, even if it is not necessary for theistic belief to be warranted, may yet be valuable.
THE DOCUMENT HERE DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME PAGINATION AS THE PUBLISHED VERSION.
Confucius' pedagogy is an interesting model to consider and contrast with contemporary models. This chapter introduces these principles and assessments from the Analects and draws out some comparisons to and contrasts with two alternative theories in western moral thought, Augustine and John Dewey.
Published in Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities, edited by Benedict S. B. Chan and Victor C. M. Chan. London: Routledge, 2021.
The accepted version of the paper is included here. Pagination does not match the published version.
However, they diverge in some matters. James defends the right to diverse religious belief and eventually articulates his own account based on religious experience—an account which is intentionally philosophical and not reliant on any religious authority. Iqbal, however, reconsiders and defends Islam understood along largely traditional lines.
I compare and contrast James’ and Iqbal’s religious epistemologies in order to understand both of them better and, hopefully, enrich contemporary reflection on faith and reason through a better awareness of the past dialogue on the subject.
This is the accepted version of the following article: “William James and Allama Iqbal on Empirical Faith;” The Heythrop Journal 61.5 (2020): 775-787, which has been published in final form at [https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.13325]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with the Wiley Self-Archiving Policy [http://www.wileyauthors.com/self-archiving].
THIS IS A PRE-PUBLICATION VERSION OF THE PAPER and does not have the same pagination as the published version.
This is the accepted version of the following article: Mark J. Boone, “Augustine and William James on the Rationality of Faith,” The Heythrop Journal (online edition December 2018), which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/heyj.13123. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with the Wiley Self-Archiving Policy [http://www.wileyauthors.com/self-archiving].
One good argument for same-sex marriage depends on a definition that came to prominence after the sexual revolution. A different understanding of marriage was prominent in the nineteenth century, and this shows that Obergefell was wrongly decided, at least as far as Originalist understandings of law are concerned.
Accordingly, the nature, purpose, and function of marriage, and what people think of them, are important for understanding the requirements of Constitutional law.
The teleology of marriage is a topic philosophers and theologians are well suited to study, and thus philosophy and theology have much to contribute to the study of law and to all the other disciplines interested in marriage.
Videos based on the great dialogues and speeches in the history of philosophy.
Featuring Socrates, Plato, Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, Descartes, Berkeley, William James, and C. S. Lewis. A helpful study tool for you--or your students!
Coming Summer 2017!
Coming Summer 2017!
Coming July 11, 2017!
Coming in June 2017!
Featuring arguments from (at least) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Descartes, Mill, Allama Iqbal, and C. S. Lewis!
Debuting October 9, 2017!
Coming September 18, 2017!
Debuting on August 22, 2017, with "Does Marvel's Daredevil Know What It's Like to Be a Bat?"
This Word document is the e-version of a talk given at the March 2017 meeting of the Islamic Philosophical Association of Pakistan.
Sorry--no handout or paper available! This was a talk with few notes, and they were handwritten.
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