JAMES  MONTMARQUET (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1978); Professor.  Areas of Special Interest: Philosophy of Religion (especially 'religious experience'), Theory of Knowledge (especially ‘epistemic virtue’), Moral Philosophy (especially ‘moral character’)

                                                With my now late mother and daughter (respectively)

Welcome to my home page, and thank you for your interest in what I do!  I have been teaching at Tennessee State University, here in Nashville, since 1986.  My main areas of research have concerned the moral and especially the ‘epistemic’ virtues.  More recently, I have been applying my work on the latter subject to questions in the philosophy of religion, with an eye to finding some middle ground, in the epistemology of religious experience, between pragmatism on one side, and a view of such experience as a form of perception, on the other.  To this end, I am working on a book showing how religious faith can be not only morally but 'epistemically' virtuous. I am also interested in questions linking the nature of forgiveness, in recent moral philosophy, and the Christian account of the redemptive mission of Jesus.  A detailed list of my publications may be found on my vita You may e-mail me at jmontmarquet@tnstate.edu   Some of my more recent work is linked below: that

"'Pure' vs. 'Practical' Epistemic Justification" (Metaphilosophy 2007)

"Planned Forgiveness" (American Philosophical Quarterly 2007)

"Virtue and Voluntarism" (Synthese 2008)

"The Voluntariness of Virtue -- and Belief" (forthcoming, Philosophy)