Wes Morriston
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Ph.D., Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1972.
M.A., Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1969.
B.A., Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast, N. Ireland 1967.
(Graduated with First Class Honors)
2001- Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder
1977 - 2001 Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder
1972 - 1977 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder
1971-1972 Instructor, Rutgers in Camden
Selected by graduating philosophy majors for the first annual $1000 departmental teaching award, 2005
Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching Excellence Award, University of Colorado, 2001
President's Teaching Scholar, University of Colorado, 1992-94
Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching Excellence Award, University of Colorado, 1981
"What if God Commanded Something Terrible?" forthcoming in Religious Studies.
"The Moral Obligations of Non-Believers: A special Problem for Divine Command Metaethics," International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, in press.
“Is God Free? Reply to Wierenga," Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan. 2006), pp. 93-98.
"Power, Liability, and the Free Will Defence: Reply to Mawson," Religious Studies, vol. 41 no. 1 (March 2005), pp. 71-80.
"The 'Evidential Argument from Goodness',"The Southern Journal of Philosophy, (2004) Vol. XLII, pp. 87-101.
"Must Metaphysical Time Have a Beginning?" Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 20, No. 3 (July 2003), pp. 288-306.
"Does Plantinga's God have freedom-canceling control over his creatures? A response to Richard Gale," Philo, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring-Summer 2003), pp. 67-77.
"Are omnipotence and necessary moral perfection compatible? Reply to Mawson," Religious Studies, Vol. 39, No. 4 (December 2003), pp. 441-449.
"Omnipotence and the Power to Choose: A Reply to Wielenberg," Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 3 (July 2002), pp. 358-367.
"Causes and Beginnings in the Kalam Argument: Reply to Craig," Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 2 (April 2002),233-244.
"Creation ex Nihilo and the Big Bang," Philo, Vol. 5, No. 9 (Spring-Summer 2002).
"A Critical Examination of the Kalam Cosmological Argument," in God Matters, ed. by Ray Martin and Christopher Bernard (Longman: 2002).
"Craig on the Actual Infinite," Religious Studies, Vol. 38, No. 2 (June 2002).
"Must There Be a Standard of Moral Goodness Apart from God?", Philosophia Christi, Series 2, Vol. 3, no.1, 127-138.
"Omnipotence and the Anselmian God," Philo, vol 4, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2001), 7-20.
"Omnipotence and Necessary Moral Perfection: Are they compatible?" Religious Studies, Vol. 37 (June 2001), 143-160.
"Explanatory Priority and the Counterfactuals of Freedom," Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 2001), 21-35.
"What Is So Good About Moral Freedom?" The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 50, Issue 3 (July 2000), 344-358.
"Must the Beginning of the Universe Have a Personal Cause?" Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2000), 149-169.
"Must the Past Have a Beginning?" Philo, Vol. 2 (1999) no. 1, 5-19.
"God's Answer to Job" Religious Studies, Vol. 32 (1996), 339-356.
"Is God Significantly Free?" Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1985), 257-264.
"Is Plantinga's God Omnipotent?" Sophia, Vol. 23, No. 3 (1984), 5-57.
"Pike and Hoffman on Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom," Philosophy Research Archives, Vol. 8, (1982), 521 -529.
"Gladness, Regret, God, and Evil," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XX, No. 3 (1982), 401-407.
"'Two Perspective' Compatibilism, The Journal of Critical Analysis, Vol. Vll, No. 4 (1979), 119-123.
"Experience and Causality in the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 39 (1979), 561-74. reprinted in Phenomenology: Dialogues and Bridges, Bruzina and Wilshire, eds. (SUNY Press,1982).
"Kenny on Compatibilism," Mind, 88 (1979), 266-269.
"Perceptual Synthesis in the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty," Philosophy Research Archives, 3 (1977).
"Brute Contingency and the Principle of Sufficient Reason," Philosophy Research Archives, 3 (1977).
"Freedom, Determinism, and Chance in the Early Philosophy of Sartre," The Personalist, 58 (1977), 236-48.
"Intentionality and the Phenomenological Method: A Critique of Husserl's Transcendental Idealism," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 7 (1976), 33-43.
"Heidegger on the World," Man and World, 5 (1972), 452-67.
Copan and Craig, Creation out of nothing: A biblical, philosophical and scientific exploration, Religious Studies vol 1 No. 3 (Sep. 2005), pp. 352-357.