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Professor Whittaker received his bachelor's
degree in Philosophy from Pomona College
(1967) before going on to Yale
, where he earned an M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School and an M.Phil. and
Ph.D. (1974) from the Graduate School. Prior to coming
to LSU in 1980 he taught in the Department of Religious Studies at the University
of Virginia. In 1985 he returned to Yale Divinity School as an
Associate Professor and Research Fellow. He served for a shorter period
of time in 1991 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Leuven (Louvian)
in Belgium. In 1998-99 he was appointed as the Visiting Mason Professor of Religion at the College of Willam and Mary. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Matters of Faith and Matters of Principle: Religious Truth Claims and Their Logic (San Antonio; Trinity University Press, 1981). The Logic of Religious Persuasion (New York; Peter Lang, 1991) The Possibilities of Sense: Essays in Honour of D. Z. Phillips (New York; Palgrave, 2002). "Religious Beliefs, Their Point and Their Reference," in Is God Real?, ed. by Joseph Runzo in The Library of Philosophy and Religion (New York: MacMillan, 1992), pp. 119-29. "Agape and Self Love," in The Love Commandment, ed. by Edmund Santurri (Washington; Georgetown University Press, 1992), pp. 221-38. "Can a Purely Grammatical Inquiry be Religiously Persuasive?" in Philosophy and the Grammar of Religious Belief, ed. by Timothy Tessin and Mario Van der Ruhr (London; MacMillan, 1995), pp. 348-66. WORK IN PROGRESS: "The Knowledge of God in the Cloud of Unknowing" SELECTED HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS: Prize Essay, "Wittgenstein on 'Forms of Life' and Religious Belief," American Academy of Religion, 1973 Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, for a project on "Chance, Coincidence, and Fate," 1987 Malone Faculty Fellowship (for study in the Middle East), 1992 Research Links:
The William James Fund
, an LSU endowment for programs and research in parapsychology.
The fund also supports lectures on shamanism, mystical experience,
trance possession, faith healing, reincarnation, near death experiences,
and related matters. Founded by Katherine and William Petty in 1981,
it is administered by the chairperson of the Philosophy Department
and the Religious Studies Program.
The Urmila (Gopal) Singhal Fund
, a memorial endowment supporting teaching and public programs
on the religions originating in India. Founded by Dr. Gopal Singhal,
its provides special support for programs on the musical and sacred performative
arts of Hinduism, and on Hinduism's spirit of religious tolerance.
The Leuven Exchange
. Begun in 1990 by an exchange of visiting faculty from
the Higher Institutue of Philosophy at the Catholic Unversity of Leuven (formerly
known as Louvain) and the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
at LSU, the exchange has continued ever since. Return to Religious Studies Homepage
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