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Education
1952-58
University College of Swansea
1958-61
University of Oxford (St Catherine’s Society)
(Occasional student during the second year)
1959-61
Minister of Fabian Bay Congregational Church, Swansea
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Academic Career
1961-63
Queen’s College, Dundee
1963-65
University
College of North Wales, Bangor
1965-
University of Wales, Swansea
1992-
Claremont Graduate University,
California
D
Z Phillips held the Danforth Chair in Philosophy of
Religion at Claremont
Graduate University, California and was Professor
of Philosophy Emeritus and Rush Rhees Professor Emeritus at the
University of Wales, Swansea.
The
endowed lectures he gave include the Cardinal Mercier
Lectures (Leuven), Marett Lecture (Oxford), Riddell Lectures
(Newcastle), McMartin Lectures (Ottowa), Hintz Lecture (Tucson),
and the Aquinas Lecture (Oxford), and Vonhoff Lectures (Groningen).
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Research Interests
Philosophy of religion, ethics, philosophy and literature,
and Wittgenstein.
D Z
Phillips was the Director of the Rush Rhees and Peter
Winch Archives, and editor of the journal Philosophical
Investigations (Blackwells).
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Selected Publications
The Concept of Prayer,
Routledge and Kegan Paul and Schocken Books, New York, 1965
(reprinted 1968, Paperback ed: Basil Blackwell and Seabury
Press, 1981).
Faith and
Philosophical Enquiry, Routledge and Kegan Paul and Schocken
Books, New York.
Death and Immortality, Macmillan and Humanities Press,
1970.
Moral Practices (with H O Mounce), Routledge and Kegan
Paul and Schocken Books, New York, 1970.
Sense and
Delusion, (with Ilham Dilman), Routledge and Kegan Paul and
Humanities Press, 1971.
Athronyddu Am Grefydd, (Philosophising
About Religion), Gomer Press, 1974.
Religion Without
Explanation, Basil Blackwell and St Martin’s Press, 1976.
Through a Darkening Glass: Philosophy, Literature and
Cultural Change,
University of Notre Dame Press and Basil Blackwell, 1982.
Dramau Gwenlyn Parry, Pantycelyn Press, 1982, 2nd ed
1995.
Belief, Change
and Forms of Life, Macmillan, 1986.
R S Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God, Macmillan, 1986.
Faith After Foundationalism, Routledge, 1988; Westview
Press, 1995.
From Fantasy to Faith, Macmillan and St Martin’s
Press, 1991.
Interventions in Ethics, Macmillan and SUNY Press, 1992.
Wittgenstein and Religion, Macmillan and St Martin’s
Press, 1993.
Writers of Wales: J
R Jones, University of Wales Press, 1995.
Introducing Philosophy:
The Challenge of Scepticism, Blackwell, 1996, pp xiii +
206 (reprinted 1997); Filosofi - en presentation: Skepticismens
Utmaning (Swedish trans by Yrsa Neuman and Lars Hertzberg),
Daidalos, 1999, pp.220.
Philosophy’s Cool Place, Cornell University Press,
1999.
Recovering Religious Concepts, Macmillan and St
Martin’s Press, 2000.
Religion
and the Hermeneutics of Contemplation, Cambridge University
Press, 2001.
Religion and Friendly Fire,
Ashgate, 2004.
On the Problem of Evil and the Problem of God, SCM Press,
2004.
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