School of Theology

Scott M. Williams, Ph.D., is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Theology and Philosophy. A native of Southern California, he has also lived in San Francisco; Chicago; New York; Oxford, UK; and South Bend, Indiana. He enjoys adventures abroad, especially when they include rather old libraries, manuscripts, and fabulous local cuisine. Williams' areas of interest include medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind and will. He is also interested in the reception of medieval philosophy in modern and contemporary settings. Some of his recent articles include “Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, and John Duns Scotus: On the Theology of the Father’s Intellectual Generation of the Word,” and “Henry of Ghent on Real Relations and the Trinity: The Case for Numerical Sameness Without Identity.” He has a forthcoming chapter on John Duns Scotus’ religious epistemology in The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology (William J. Abraham and Frederick D. Aquino, Eds., Oxford University Press, 2015). Williams is working on an article titled “Indexicals and the Trinity: Two Anti-Social Models,” in addition to a monograph, Henry of Ghent on the Trinity: Metaphysics and Philosophical Psychology.