Kevin Timpe
- Dr. Kevin Timpe
- Professor, Philosophy Department Chair, William H. Jellema Chair in Christian Philosophy
- Philosophy, Gender Studies
- Hiemenga Hall 341 (Map)
- 616-526-6410
- kevin.timpe@calvin.edu
- Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD, Philosophy, Saint Louis University, 2004
Biography
"I love coffee. Oh yeah, and my kids too. And my wife. And did I mention coffee?”
What it's like to learn in my classroom
One of my main goals in teaching is to help students realize how ideas matter for how we live our lives together. For instance, if we think that it's in some way bad to have a disability, this makes it easier to devalue disabled lives. Once we do that, we're likely as a society to give less opportunities to disabled individuals, which is historically what has happened.
Or, for another example, how we think about the nature of anger shapes our communal practices. Anger clearly can go wrong, becoming the vice of wrath that we see all too often in our culture. But anger also plays a crucial role in motivating us to take action against injustice. What role then does anger have in the moral life? How can we figure out what proper anger is?
I try to address these sorts of issues by bringing together relevant philosophical work with our own life experiences to see their importance and their 'grip' on us.
Academic interests
- Free will
- Virtue ethics
- Philosophy of religion
- Philosophy of disability
- Metaphysics
Publications
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The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction
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Published: May 3, 2021
ISBN: 9780198845379
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Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives on Disability, Gender, Race, and Animals
Published: September 4, 2019
ISBN: 9780367077471
eBook ISBN: 9780429022531 -
Disability and Inclusive Communities in Calvin Shorts
by Kevin Timpe
Published: January 15, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-937555-32-0
eBook ISBN: 978-1-937555-33-7 -
Free Will: Sourcehood and its Alternatives
by Kevin Timpe
Published: January 31, 2013
ISBN: 9781441189936
eBook ISBN: 9781441189936 -
Arguing about Religion
Published: January 16, 2009
ISBN: 978-0415988629
eBook ISBN: 0415988624 -
Metaphysics and God: Essays in Honor of Eleonore Stump
Published: April 25, 2015
ISBN: 978-1138884328
eBook ISBN: 1138884324 -
Free Will in Philosophical Theology
Published: November 21, 2013
ISBN: 9781441123312
eBook ISBN: 1501308688 -
Virtues and Their Vices
Published: April 27, 2014
ISBN: 9780199645541
eBook ISBN: 019964554X -
The Routledge Companion to Free Will
Published: April 1, 2017
ISBN: 978-1138795815
eBook ISBN: 9781315758206 -
Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns
by Kevin Timpe, Daniel Speak
Published: July 5, 2016
ISBN: 9780198743958
Books
The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction, with Craig Boyd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Routledge Companion to Free Will, edited with Meghan Griffith & Neil Levy. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns, edited with Daniel Speak. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Virtues and Their Vices, edited with Craig Boyd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Free Will in Philosophical Theology, Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Free Will and Its Alternatives, 2nd and expanded edition. London: Bloomsbury, 2012.
Metaphysics and God: Essays in Honor of Eleonore Stump. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Arguing about Religion. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Recent Publications
"Denying a Unified Concept of Disability," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (forthcoming in 2022).
"Agency and Disability," in The Routledge Handbook of Agency, edited by Luca Ferrero (Routledge, 2022):159-168.
"What are Intended as Systems of Support become Systems of Struggle," Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture (2021).
“Sin in the Christian Tradition,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2021): online.
The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction, with Craig Boyd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
“DefiantAfterlife—Disability and Uniting Ourselves to God,” in Voices from the Edge: Centering Marginalized Perspectives in Analytic Theology, ed. Michelle Panchuk and Michael Rea, Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology (Oxford University Press, 2020): 206–231.
"The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives on Disability, Gender, Race, and Animals, edited with Blake Hereth". New York: Routledge, 2019.
“‘Upright , Whole, and Free’—Eschatological Union with God,” TheoLogica2.2 (2018),1-16: online.
In the news and on the web
Professor Timpe delivered a public lecture at University of York, October, 6, 2017, titled "Structuring Communities for Inclusion rather than Exclusion." You can watch the lecture here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdWPOFx-dUk
Professor Timpe delivered the W. H. Jellema Chair in Christian Philosophy inaugural lecture on Nov. 10, 2016. His lecture, Christian Philosophy and Disability, includes an introduction by Alvin Plantinga. You can watch the lecture here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP7NJkGcVgg
An interview with Prof. Timpe about the Jellema Chair. https://calvin.edu/news/archive/kevin-timpe-begins-as-jellema-chair
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