Dr Brendan Sweetman is a teacher, philosopher and writer. From Dublin, Ireland, he is Professor of Philosophy and holds the Sullivan Chair in Philosophy at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Religion and Science: An Introduction (Continuum, 2010), The Vision of Gabriel Marcel (Brill, 2008), Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Continuum, 2007), Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square (InterVarsity, 2006), Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology (Oxford U.P., 1992), A Gabriel Marcel Reader (St. Augustine’s Press, 2011), Evolution, Chance, and God (Bloomsbury, Fall 2015), and most recently, The Crisis of Democratic Pluralism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). He has published more than one hundred articles and critical reviews in a variety of journals, collections, and reference works, including International Philosophical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi, Philosophical Quarterly, Review of Metaphysics, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Encyclopedia Britannica, New Catholic Encyclopedia, and the American National Biography. 

Dr Sweetman is an elected Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion. A founding member of the Kansas City Religion and Science Dialogue Project, Dr Sweetman has been a Visiting Scholar and Keynote Speaker at several universities and colleges in the U.S., and, internationally, has given lectures in many countries. He is the current President of the Gabriel Marcel Society, a member of the former “Think Tank” on Religious Leadership, Civil Discourse and Democracy Project, at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, and the editor of Marcel Studies. His books and articles have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.