Keith M. Parsons
Professor of Philosophy

Email: parsons@uhcl.edu
Office: Bayou 1508
Phone: 281-283-3361

Mailing Address:
University of Houston-Clear Lake
2700 Bay Area Blvd.
Campus Box 296
Houston, TX 77058

• Education
• Research Interests
• Teaching
• Selected Publications
• Professional Activities
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• Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 
• Ph.D., Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• M.A., Philosophy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
• Master of Theological Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; awarded cum laude
• B.A., Religion and Philosophy, Berry College, Rome, Georgia; awarded magna cum laude

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• Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Religion; History of Science

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• Darwin and His Critics
• Theory of Knowledge
• Ethics
• Philosophy of Religion
• Logic (both deductive and inductive)
• Basic Texts; (Humanities Core); Texts and Images (graduate humanities core)
• Philosophy of History
• Metaphysics
• History of Philosophy I and II
• History of Exploration
• Philosophy of Mind
• Science and Pseudoscience; Science and Religion; History of Science
  

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Books:

• Rational Episodes: Logic for Intermittently Reasonable Beings, Prometheus Books, (forthcoming, 2009).
• Copernican Questions: A Concise Invitation to the Philosophy of Science, McGraw-Hill, 2006.
• The Great Dinosaur Controversy: A Guide to the Debates.  ABC-Clio Press, Santa Barbara, CA, December 2003.
• The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology, an anthology of readings, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY, 2003.
• Drawing Out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars.  Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2001
• Why I am not a Christian;  Freethought Press, Atlanta, GA, 2000.  Website publication by Internet Infidels, 2006.
• God and the Burden of Proof,
  Prometheus Books: Buffalo, NY, 1989; Foreword by Kai Nielsen.

Articles, Reviews, Book Chapters:

• Review of The Agnostic Inquirer: Revelation from a Philosophical Standpoint, by Sandra Menssen and Thomas D. Sullivan, (Eerdmans, 2007), Notre Dame Philosophical Review (April, 2008).“
• Bertrand Russell,” a 10,000 word chapter in Icons of Unbelief: Atheists, Agnostics, and Secularists, S.T. Joshi, ed., Greenwood Press (2008).
• “Atheism: Twilight or Dawn” in The Future of Athesim: Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett in Dialogue.  R.B. Stewart, ed., Minneapolis: Fortress Press, (2008), pp. 51-65.
• “Naturalistic Rejoinders to Theistic Arguments,” in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, edited by Chad Meister and Paul Copan, (Routledge, 2007).
• “Evil and the Unknown Purpose Defense: Remarks Addressed to Theodore Drange’s Nonbelief and Evil,” Philo, Vol. 8, #2, (pp. 160-168).
  

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• “Belief: Nurture, Nature, or Neither,” read at the Rice University Religious Studies Colloquium, October 31, 2007.
• “Belief: Nurture, Nature, or Neither,” read at the Conference on the Evolution of Religion; Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia  (Gulbenkian Institute of Science), Lisbon, Portugal, March 12-13, 2007
• “Atheism: Twilight or Dawn,” read at the Greer/Heard Forum on the Future of Atheism, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Feb. 24, 2007.
• “Can Science tell us the Truth about Truth?”: Paper read at the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, Boston University, September 11, 2006.
• “No Creator Need Apply: Why Baby Universes can be Brute Facts”:  Paper read at the Symposium on Science and Religion, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, April 8, 2006.

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• Dr. Parsons' CV

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