DR BRENDAN SWEETMAN is a teacher, philosopher and writer. From Dublin, Ireland, he is Professor of Philosophy and holds the Sullivan Chair at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including, most recently, EVOLUTION, CHANCE AND GOD (Bloomsbury, 2015), as well as RELIGION AND SCIENCE: AN INTRODUCTION (Continuum, 2010); THE VISION OF GABRIEL MARCEL (Rodopi, 2008); RELIGION: KEY CONCEPTS IN PHILOSOPHY (Continuum, 2007); WHY POLITICS NEEDS RELIGION: THE PLACE OF RELIGIOUS ARGUMENTS IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE (InterVarsity, 2006); CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON RELIGIOUS EPISTEMOLOGY (Oxford U.P., 1992); A GABRIEL MARCEL READER (St. Augustine's Press, 2011), and PHILOSOPHICAL THINKING AND THE RELIGIOUS CONTEXT (Bloomsbury, 2013). He was a consulting editor for the NEW CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA SUPPLEMENT: ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY (Gale, 2013, 4 Vols.). Professor Sweetman has published more than one hundred articles and critical reviews in a variety of journals, collections, and reference works, including the INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, AMERICAN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY, PHILOSOPHIA CHRISTI, PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS, AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, and the STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY. He has been a Visiting Scholar and Keynote Speaker at several universities and colleges in the U.S., and, internationally, has given lectures in many countries. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the Society of Christian Philosophers. Dr Sweetman is the current President of the Gabriel Marcel Society, Vice-President for North America of the World Conference of Catholic University Institutions of Philosophy (COMIUCAP), and the editor of MARCEL STUDIES. His books and articles have been translated into several languages. including Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.