{"id":4,"date":"2025-06-11T13:51:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/matthew-benton\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:41:53","slug":"matthew-a-benton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/matthew-benton\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew A. Benton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am Seminar Fellow for the <a href=\"https:\/\/philreligion.nd.edu\/research-initiatives\/notre-dame-summer-seminars-in-philosophy-of-religion\/\">Notre Dame Summer Seminars in Philosophy of Religion<\/a>, and a researcher in the <a title=\"https:\/\/philreligion.nd.edu\/\" href=\"https:\/\/philreligion.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Philosophy of Religion<\/a> at the <a title=\"http:\/\/nd.edu\/\" href=\"http:\/\/nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Notre Dame<\/a>. I was previously visiting associate research professor in the Center, and was a philosophy professor at <a title=\"http:\/\/spu.edu\/\" href=\"http:\/\/spu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seattle Pacific University<\/a>\u00a0for nearly a decade. Before that a postdoctoral research fellow at Notre Dame, and at the <a title=\"http:\/\/www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Oxford<\/a>. I did my Ph.D. in Philosophy at\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/philosophy.rutgers.edu\/\" href=\"http:\/\/philosophy.rutgers.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rutgers University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My primary areas of research are Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, and Philosophy of Religion, and increasingly on issues in Ethics. Recent work has explored knowing others in relationship, 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. Recent writing is on prayer, divine hiddenness, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and God and goodness. My research has been supported by grants on <a title=\"https:\/\/www.templeton.org\/grant\/knowledge-and-god\" href=\"https:\/\/www.templeton.org\/grant\/knowledge-and-god\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">knowledge and God<\/a>, and on the\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/honestyproject.philosophy.wfu.edu\/philosophy-of-honesty-projects\/#interpersonalhonesty\" href=\"https:\/\/honestyproject.philosophy.wfu.edu\/philosophy-of-honesty-projects\/#interpersonalhonesty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">philosophy of honesty<\/a> through the\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/honestyproject.philosophy.wfu.edu\/\" href=\"https:\/\/honestyproject.philosophy.wfu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Honesty Project<\/a>, funded by the John Templeton Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=LKsV7LoAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=LKsV7LoAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a>\u00a0page and\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/philpeople.org\/profiles\/matthew-a-benton\" href=\"https:\/\/philpeople.org\/profiles\/matthew-a-benton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PhilPeople<\/a>\u00a0profile.<\/p>\n<p>I am also PhilPapers editor for the categories <a title=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/browse\/defeat\/\" href=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/browse\/defeat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Defeat<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/browse\/primitivism-about-knowledge\/\" href=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/browse\/primitivism-about-knowledge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Primitivism about Knowledge<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/browse\/norms-of-assertion\/\" href=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/browse\/norms-of-assertion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Norms of Assertion<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/browse\/epistemology-of-religion\/\" href=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/browse\/epistemology-of-religion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Epistemology of Religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can reach me at: mbenton at nd dot edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Seminar Fellow for the Notre Dame Summer Seminars in Philosophy of Religion, and a researcher in the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame. I was previously visiting associate research professor in the Center, and was a philosophy professor at Seattle Pacific University\u00a0for nearly a decade. 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