Brendan Sweetman 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 ten 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); A Gabriel Marcel Reader (St. Augustine’s Press, 2011); and, most recently, Philosophical Thinking and the Religious Context (Bloomsbury, 2013). He was consulting editor for the New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement: Ethics and Philosophy (Cengage Gage, 2013, four vols.). He has published more than a hundred articles and reviews in a variety of journals and collections.