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Tyler Dalton McNabb

Tyler Dalton McNabb, PhD

College of Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Biography

After receiving his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow, Prof. McNabb took an assistant professor position at Houston Christian University. There, he taught classes such as Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, and Comparative Philosophy. He also published Religious Epistemology (Cambridge University Press) and Plantingian Religious Epistemology and the World Religions.

Wanting to move to Asia, Prof. McNabb took a research fellowship at the University of Macau in 2019. During this time, he co-wrote Classical Theism and Buddhism (Bloomsbury) and edited and contributed to Debating Christian Religious Epistemology (Bloomsbury).

In 2020, Prof. McNabb took up an assistant professor position at the University of Saint Joseph in Macao. He would go on to write several papers and God and Political Theory (Cambridge University Press) during this time. In 2021, he was promoted to associate professor of philosophy. He taught classes such as Contemporary Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Theological English, and Epistemology and Ethics.

During 2022, Prof. McNabb moved to Saint Francis University where he would teach classes such as Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy of Human Nature, Philosophy of Religion, Healthcare Ethics, and World Religions. Prof. McNabb would go on to publish several books and papers during this time, including co-writing Eastern Philosophy and Classical Theism (Cambridge University Press) and co-editing The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology.

In 2026, Prof. McNabb was honored to join VinUniversity as an associate professor of philosophy. At this date, Prof. McNabb has over 40 papers published and 9 books written/co-written/edited. Prof. McNabb has also spoken at numerous conferences around the world, including as a keynote speaker for conferences in the Philippines, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

  • Proper Functionalism
  • Global Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Buddhism
  • Classical Theism
  • Early Confucianism
  • Daoism
  • Natural Theology
  • Reformed Epistemology
  • Cognitive Science

  • Epistemology
  • Asian Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Buddhist Philosophy
  • Contemporary Philosophy
  • Critical Thinking
  • Medieval Philosophy
  • Theology

  1. Forthcoming With Gregory Stacey, ‘Is the Buddha Nature Triune?,’ Agatheos: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
  2. Forthcoming, With Randall Price, ‘Canonical Theology and the Problem of Canon List Diversity,’ Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies.
  3. 2025 With Gregory Stacey, ‘On Being and Bonaventure: A Franciscan Ontological Argument,’ International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
  4. 2024 ‘The Shentong Tradition and Classical Theism: A Synthesis,’ Philosophy East and West.
  5. 2024 With Greg Stacey ‘Salvation Through Implicit Faith: A New Defense,’ New Blackfriars.
  6. 2024 ‘The Problem of Evil for Buddhists: Developing Transcendental Responses,’ Agatheos: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
  7. 2024 With Alexander Pruss, ‘What Animals Might there be in Heaven?’ American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
  8. 2024 Erik Baldwin, ‘The Stigmata, Rainbow Bodies, and Hume’s Argument Against Miracles,’ Journal of the Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand.
  9. 2024 With Gregory Stacey, ‘Sola Scriptura and the Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism,’ Theologica.
  10. 2024 ‘The Aristotelian Proof Revisited: A Reflection,’ New Blackfriars.
  11. 2023 ‘Analytic Catholic Epistemologies of Faith: A Survey of Developments,’ Philosophy Compass, https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12911.
  12. 2022 Michael DeVito, ‘Foreknowledge & Divine Emotions: A Further Exploration into the Emotional Life of a Passible God,’ European Journal of Philosophy of Religion 14 115-128.
  13. 2022 With Michael DeVito, ‘A Christology of Religions and a Theology of Evangelism,’ Religions 13.
  14. 2022 With Michael DeVito, ‘The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism: A Wittgenstenian Response,’ International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-022-09832-3.
  15. 2022 With Michael DeVito, ‘Ockham on the Side of the Angels: Why a Classical Theist Shouldn’t be Moved by Oppy’s Argument from Simplicity,’ The New Blackfriars, https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12766.
  16. 2022 With Michael DeVito, ‘Climate Alarmism or Lukewarming: How so called American Conservatives Should Think About Climate Change,’ Ethics and the Environment 27: 101-121.
  17. 2021 With Michael DeVito, ‘Cognitive Science of Religion and Classical Theism: A Synthesis,’ Religions, 13, 24: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010024.
  18. 2021 With Michael DeVito, ‘Basic Beliefs, The Embryo Rescue Case, and Single-Issue Voting: A Response to Dustin Crummett,’ National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 21/2: 201-205.
  19. 2021 With Michael DeVito ‘Divine foreknowledge and human free will: Embracing the Paradox,’ International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, doi.org/10.1007/s11153-021-09791-1.
  20. 2021 With Chad McIntosh, ‘Houston Do We Have a Problem? Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life and Christian Belief,’ Philosophia Christi 23/1: 101-124.
  21. 2021, ‘Papal Bull: A Response to Contemporary Papal Scholarship,’ Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies 6/1: 147-152.
  22. 2020 With Joseph Blado, ‘Mary and Fátima: A Modest C-Inductive Argument for Catholicism,’ Perichoresis 18/5: 55-65.
  23. 2020 With Michael DeVito, ‘Has Oppy Done Away with the Aristotelian Proof?’ The Heythrop Journal 61/5: 723-731.
  24. 2020 ‘Pestilent Popes or a Pestilent Church,’ The Heythrop Journal 61/4: 671-676.
  25. 2019 With Joseph Blado, “Confucianism and the Liturgy: An Analectical Argument for the High Church Traditions,” in TheoLogica.
  26. 2019 With Jeremy Neill, “By Whose Authority?: A Political Argument for God’s Existence,” European Journal of Philosophy of Religion 111/2: 163-204.
  27. 2018 ‘Wiley Coyote and the Craggy Rocks Below: The Perils of Godless Ethics,’ Philosophia Christi 20/2: 339-346.
  28. 2018 ‘Proper Functionalism and the Metalevel: A Friendly Reply to Timothy and Lydia McGrew,’ Quaestiones Disputatae 8/2: 155-164.
  29. 2018 With Tyler Taber, “Is the Problem of Divine Hiddenness a Problem for the Reformed Epistemologist?,” The Heythrop Journal 59/5: 759-866.
  30. 2018 ‘Super Mario Strikes Back: A Molinist Reply to Welty’s Gunslingers,’ Perichoresis 16/4: 45-54.
  31. 2017 With Erik Baldwin, ‘Divine Methodology: A Lawful Deflection of Kantian and Kantian-esque Defeaters,’ Open Theology 3/1: 451-465.
  32. 2016 With Erik Baldwin, ‘Reformed Epistemology and the Pandora’s Box Objection: The Vaiśeṣika and Mormon Traditions,’ Philosophia Christi 18/2: 451-465.
  33. 2015 With Erik Baldwin, ‘An Epistemic Defeater for Islamic Belief?,’ International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (Routledge) 76/4: 352-367.
  34. 2015 ‘Warranted religion: answering objections to Alvin Plantinga’s epistemology,’ Religious Studies 51: 477-495.

BOOKS

  1. Under Contract. (ed.), Catholicism and Religions Around the World: Connecting Metaphysical and Ethical Systems. Bloomsbury Press.
  2. 2025 With Erik Baldwin, Eastern Philosophy and Classical Theism (Cambridge University Press).
  3. 2024 An Analytic Theology of Evangelism: A Classical Theist’s Approach (Eugene: Cascade Books).
  4. 2023 With John Greco and Jonathan Fuqua (eds.), Cambridge Companion to Religious Epistemology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  5. 2023 With Victoria Harrison (eds.), Philosophy and the Spiritual Life (London: Routledge, 2023).
  6. 2022 God and Political Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  7. 2022 With Erik Baldwin, Classical Theism and Buddhism: Connecting Metaphysical and Ethical Systems (London: Bloomsbury).
  8. 2020 With John DePoe (eds.), Debating Religious Epistemology: An Introduction to Five Views on the Knowledge of God (London: Bloomsbury Press).
  9. 2018 Religious Epistemology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
  10. 2018 With Erik Baldwin, Plantingian Religious Epistemology and World Religions: Prospects and Problems (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018).

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. 2025 (Michael DeVito) ‘St. Newman: Plantingian or Pritchardian? John Henry Newman and Contemporary Philosophy
  2. 2025 (Chad McIntosh), Houston, Naturalists Have a Problem: ETI and Evidence for Theism, in Space, Philosophy, Ethics, ed. Bill Anderson. Vernon Press.
  3. 2023 ‘Against the Access Requirement: A Plantingian Response to Public Reason Accessibilism,’ in Palgrave Handbook to Religion and State, ed. Shannon Holzer (Palgrave).
  4. 2023 With Erik Baldwin, ‘Searching for the Ineffable: Classical Theism and Eastern Thought About God,’ in Classical Theism: New Essays on the Metaphysics of God, eds. Robert Koons and Jonathan Fuqua (Routledge Press).
  5. 2023 With Michael DeVito, ‘Warranted Eastern Christian Belief: Extending Plantinga’s Extended Model,’ in Eastern Christian Approaches for Philosophy, eds. Joshua Brown and J. Simens (London: Palgrave, 2022).
  6. 2021 With Erik Baldwin, ‘Religious Epistemology in Analytic Theology,’ in T&T Clark Companion to Analytic Theology (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), 35-44.
  7. 2020 ‘Proper Functionalism,’ Debating Christian Religious Epistemology: An Introduction to Five views on the Knowledge of God ed. DePoe and McNabb (Bloomsbury).

  • 2016: Ph.D. Philosophy. University of Glasgow. No Corrections. Supervision: Victoria Harrison.
  • 2012: MA. Philosophy of Religion. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Supervision: Jeremy Evans.
  • 2010: BA. Biblical Studies. Criswell College.

  • 2019 (with Joshua Farris): 2017 SCP Alvin Plantinga Reading Group Award: Stipend 3,000.00.        

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