Professor of Philosophy
On Faculty since 1982
Phone: (630)752-5889
Fax: (630)752-7777
Email: Jay.Wood@Wheaton.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1986
M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1980
B.A., Westmont College, magna cum laude, 1976
About W. Jay Wood
My sojourn as a student of philosophy arose out of desire to address a variety of existential, deeply felt personal concerns to which philosophers routinely address themselves: What constitutes the well lived moral and intellectual life?, Is Belief in God Rational?, What is the nature of the human person?, and related questions. To me, these have never been purely ivory-tower, academic concerns, but genuine life concerns.
Courses Taught
- Epistemology
- Aquinas
- Philosophical Theology
- Philosophy of Religion
- Virtue Theory
Membership in Professional Societies
- The Society of Christian Philosophers
- The American Philosophical Society
Research
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Religion
- Philosophical Theology
- Virtue Theory
Papers Published and/or Presented (selected)
Books and Book Chapters
- Intellectual Virtues: An Essay In Regulative Epistemology, with Robert C. Roberts, Oxford University Press, January, 2007.
- God, in Central Problems of Philosophy Series, Acumen Press, in process.
- "The Philosophy of Religion," in The Fundamentals of Philosophy, J.S. Shand ed., Routledge Press, 2003.
- "Humility and Epistemic Goods," with Robert C. Roberts, in Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology, eds. Michael Depaul and Linda Zagzebski, Oxford University Press, 2003.
- "On the Uses and Advantages of An Epistemology for Life," in Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought, ed. Merold Westphal (Indiana University Press, 1999).
- Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous, InterVarsity Press, 1998.
- "The Justification of Doctrinal Beliefs" in Rational Theism: Essays Exploring the Logic of a World View, Craig and McLeod eds., (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990).
Select Articles
- "Faith,"The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, 2007.
- "Virtue and Knowledge," Areopagus Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2 (March-April 2006): pp. 9-14.
- "Bad Karma?," Books and Culture, July/August, 2006.
- "Intellectual Virtues and the Prospects of a Christian Epistemology," in The Death of Metaphysics; The Death of Culture: Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Morality (pp. 38-66), ed. Mark J. Cherry (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005).
- "Three Faces of Greed," Christianity Today, January 2005.
- "The Virtue of Lust?," Books and Culture, May 2005.
- "Proper Function, Emotion, and the Virtues of the Intellect," with Robert C. Roberts in Faith and Philosophy, vol. 21 Number 1, January 2004.
- "Conscience," in New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics, ed. Steve Carter, InterVarsity Press, forthcoming 2006.
- "Epistemology," in New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics, ed. Steve Carter, InterVarsity Press, forthcoming 2006.
- "Augustine on Human Sexuality" in Christian History Magazine, Issue 67 (vol. XIX, No. 3), 2000.
- "C.S. Lewis," in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. by Robert Audi (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Select Reviews
- The Architecture of Reason by Robert Audi, Cambridge Press, in Faith and Philosophy, forthcoming Faith With Reason by Paul Helm, in Philosophical Review, October, 2001.
- Moral Wisdom and Good Lives by John Kekes, in Faith and Philosophy, vol. 16, number 1, January 1999.
- D.Z. Phillips, Faith and Foundationalism, in International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, vol. 36 no. 3. December, 1994.
- Michael Beaty, Christian Theism and the Problems of Philosophy, Teaching Philosophy, vol. 15, no. 3, September, 1992.