Dr. Brendan Sweetman, a native of Dublin, Ireland, is Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Religion and Science: An Introduction (Continuum, 2010); The Vision of Gabriel Marcel: Epistemology, Human Person, the Transcendent (Rodopi Press, 2008); Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religious arguments in the Public Square (InterVarsity, 2006), Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 1992), and, most recently, A Gabriel Marcel Reader (St. Augustine’s Press, 2011). He has published more than eighty articles and reviews in a variety of journals and collections.

Professor Sweetman has been a Visiting Scholar and Keynote Speaker at several universities and colleges in the U.S., and, internationally, has given lectures and talks in many countries. He writes in the areas of philosophy of religion, continental philosophy, political philosophy, and the relationship of religion to science.