I received my PhD in Philosophy from Saint Louis University in the 2004-2005 school year, then was a philosophy professor for a couple of years before doing a postdoc in ontologies (in the information science sense; to learn more about ontology, see the Wikipedia page for a start), which led me into the work I do now. My interests include: Western philosophy in general, philosophy and popular culture, ontology, and data modeling. I have done a lot of teaching, researching, presenting, editing, and publishing in the areas mentioned above, and in other areas, too.See my website at: robertarp.com. I am author of Scenario Visualization: An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solving (MIT Press, 2008), as well as co-author of Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology (MIT Press, 2016), Philosophy DeMYSTiFieD (McGraw-Hill, 2011), Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning Well, 2nd Edition (Bloomsbury Press, 2015), and What's Good on TV? Teaching Ethics through Television (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).I am editor of 1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think (Simon & Schuster, 2013), 1001 Quotations To Inspire You Before You Die (Simon & Schuster, 2016), Revisiting Aquinas' Proofs for the Existence of God (Brill, 2016), South Park and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006), Tattoos-Philosophy for Everyone: I Ink, Therefore I Am (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), Psych and Philosophy (Open Court, 2013), Homeland and Philosophy (Open Court, 2014), and The Devil and Philosophy (Open Court, 2014).I am co-editor of Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Information and Living Systems: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives (MIT Press, 2011), Contemporary Debates in Bioethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), Philosophical Approaches to the Devil (Routledge, 2016), The Problem of Evil (Lexington/Taylor & Francis, 2016), The Concept of Hell (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Batman and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Breaking Bad and Philosophy (Open Court, 2012), The Good Wife and Philosophy (Open Court, 2013), The Philosophy of Ang Lee (University Press of Kentucky, 2013), The Philosophy of J.J. Abrams (University Press of Kentucky, 2014), Downton Abbey and Philosophy (Open Court, 2015), It's Always Sunny and Philosophy (Open Court, 2015), and Justified and Philosophy (Open Court, 2014).Thanks for visiting the site.