Lecturer
203 CT Hall
Office Hours: Wed 1:45-3:00 p.m.
gregory.ganssle@yale.edu

Education
PhD 1995, Syracuse University

Areas of Interest

My main area of interest has been contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. My dissertation and several of my publications are about God's relation to time. I have also thought a lot about the Problem of Evil but I only have one publication in that area. I also have an interest in metaphysics and a growing interest in the history of early modern philosophy. I am beginning to think about how God sustains the world in its existence. I hope this will develop into a rather long project that will take me into some interesting historical figures, notably Nicolas Malebranche and George Berkeley. The contemporary issues involve the nature of causation and the ontological status of physical objects. The question of how the world depends upon God is a theological prolegomenon for the question of to what degree does the world depends upon us. This latter project, if I get to it, will take me into issues surrounding contemporary realism and anti-realism.

Current or Recent Courses Taught

* Directed Studies

Selected Publications

God and Time: Essays on the Nature of God, edited with David M. Woodruff, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

God and Time: Four Views, edited. Downers Grove, IL: Inter Varsity Press, 2001. (Second American printing, 2002) published in UK: Paternoster Press, 2002.
"God and Evil" in The Rationality of Theism, edited by Paul Copan and Paul K. Moser, London: Routledge, (forthcoming)

"Direct Awareness and God's Experience of a Temporal Now," in God and Time: New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

"On Pluralism and Truth: A Response to Michael P. Lynch," Philosophia Christi, Series 2. Vol. 3, No. 2 (2001).

"Epistemology at the Core of Postmodernism, Rorty, Foucault, and the Gospel," with Jon Hinkson Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns, ed. D. A. Carson (Zondervan, 2000).

"Necessary Moral Truths and the Need for Explanation," Philosophica Christi, Series 2. Vol. 2, No. 1 (2000).

"The Development of Augustine's View of the Freedom of the Will," The Modern Schoolman, 74, No.1, (Nov. 1996), pp 386-400.

"Leftow on Direct Awareness and Atemporality," Sophia, 34, No. 2 (1995).

"Does the B-Theory of Time entail Fatalism?: a Reply to Hasker," International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 2 (1995).

"Atemporality and the Mode of Divine Knowledge," International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, 34 (1993).

Works in Progress

"Metaphysical Naturalism is Doomed (sort of)"

"God's Knowledge of the Future"

"Atemporal Knowledge of Tensed Facts: Solving Half the Problem"

Thinking about God: First Steps in Philosophy - An introductory text aimed at general readers. It is about three quarters written.