I am a Visiting Associate Research Professor in the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame. From 2016-2025 I was a philosophy professor at Seattle Pacific University, and before that a postdoctoral research fellow at Notre Dame, and at the University of Oxford. I did my Ph.D. in Philosophy at Rutgers University.
My primary areas of research are at the intersection of Epistemology, Ethics, and Language & Mind. Recent work in Ethics include new or recent papers on relationships, goodness, honesty, lying, communicative responsibility, and emotions like hope. Related and earlier topics include assertion, hedging, predictions, fallibilism, defeat, knowledge norms, and the epistemology of religion. My research has been supported by recent grants on knowledge and God, and on the philosophy of honesty through the Honesty Project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
Here are my Google Scholar page and PhilPeople profile.
I am also PhilPapers editor for the categories Defeat, Primitivism about Knowledge, Norms of Assertion, and Epistemology of Religion.
You can reach me at: mbenton at nd dot edu