Michael C. Rea | |
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| Born | Michael Cannon Rea |
| Awards | Gifford Lecturer (2017) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Notre Dame |
Main interests | Metaphysics, Philosophy of religion |
Notable works | World Without Design Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion |
Notable ideas | Critique of naturalism, Divine hiddenness |
Michael Cannon Rea is an American analytic philosopher and, since 2017, John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He delivered the 2017 Gifford Lecture on divine hiddenness.
In World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism, Rea argues that naturalists are not justified in accepting either realism about material objects, or realism about other minds, or materialism.